I'm waiting for the moment when Hallmark realizes that their viewing audience is overwhelmingly female and they decide that since it has become a "girls club" they need to inject masculine themes and more blood, guts, and violence into their movies to appeal to this untapped male audience. Who knows, maybe they will hire some men to screech on social media about the lack of representation.
I do think that would be a good satire with the proper writing, but to be fair for as sappy as it is I remember talking to some people before Sunday school a few weeks back about how refreshing Hallmark is because it is nice to see movies where two heterosexuals meet and fall in love and there is no lecturing about whatever current woke trend is going on. Although they are getting pressure from LGBT groups, they would be wise to understand who their audience is.
I enjoy reading all kinds of books and occasionally will read a romance novel. Never bothered me that it is a genre fill with female fans. It takes a special kind of arrogance to enter a space and then demand everything revolve around you.
It will be trans exclusive long before it caters to straight men
Is it hyperbole? Or a warning
There was a time I would’ve said hyperbole. But not anymore.
I do expect a lot more LGBT influences, they did mention something about it a while back in relation to their Christmas movies.
Honestly it kind of sucks if they do this, my wife likes to watch them and I did watch a couple of them.
I doubt she would ever watch one with gays and trans as the major plot.
I’m all for people living how they want but if there is a romance element I want to see a man and woman. Don’t think that makes me a bad person. I’ve been saying for years that lgbt groups need their own channel/streaming service.
Torchwood was good despite fast forwarding certain parts. I’ve read good murder mysteries with gay side characters but the focus was on solving the murder. I’m not interested in something that focuses heavily on lgbt. Make your own network.
Just because I do not want to go to a gay bar does not mean I hate gay people. Is a question of taste. The same can be applied to any medium, if I have to chose between having gay characters or not I would chose not. This does not mean I would not watch a movie cause they have gays in it but I would not go to watch Brokeback Mountain.
Good points all around.
They already do, it's called Logo.
But that isn't enough. They literally have to spread their ideological disease everywhere and it won't be stopping anytime soon, even for Hallmark.
The Gaystapo wants 20% of all on-screen characters part of the Rainbow Reich community: https://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/GLAAD%20WHERE%20WE%20ARE%20ON%20TV%202019%202020.pdf
This is despite gays and lesbians specifically only making up 1.6% of the population.
Can you say over-representation?
Anyway, Hallmark is done for. They've already caving to the mob pressure: https://celebratingthesoaps.com/hallmark/hallmark-channel-news-more-lgbt-movies-coming-despite-criticism/
They've been slipping in Rainbow Reich characters into their movies more frequently but even that isn't enough. The Loonies on the Left now want more focus on their degenerate lifestyle, having their own channel and characters being featured regularly across every single other mainstream network and streaming service isn't enough. They want to penetrate the viewing audience of the last straight, white entertainment bastion.
And I'm not kidding about Hallmark's straight, white audience. Majority of their viewers (75%) clock in as mostly straight females between the ages of 18 and 60 years of age, with the 50+ crowd making up 70.2% of the female-viewing audience: https://www.nationalmediaspots.com/network-demographics/Hallmark.pdf
Those same females make up the majority of the 4 million viewers they top out at for their (weirdly) popular Christmas romance films: https://www.businessinsider.com/hallmark-channel-christmas-movies-with-lacy-chabert-candace-cameron-bure-2017-10
I tend to doubt grandmas are all that interested in Luke's transition into Lucy as he attempts to date Gay Gary.
But but there is an untapped market!!!! lol
A high-testosterone Hallmark action movie would be lit.
Actually now that I think of it, it could work with elements of comedy and romance and not take itself too seriously. Unfortunately we don’t live in an era when movies can be fun.
She was a plain farm girl, tending her horses in the harsh badlands, dreaming of love.
He was a svelte masked bandit, mysterious, with a sachel of diamonds, on the run from the law.
He was a buff but rich private investigator, looking into a diamond heist, the trail leads past the farm.
Both men, despite having much more important things to do, immediately fall in love with the plain farm girl for no good reason, and seek to give her their wealth and attention. But they see each other, and each grabs one of her horses, and rides off into the badlands for a horseback gunfight that leaves the horses both completely unharmed (because the farm girl tended them, you see).
She comes to a realization that she loves the attention and wealth both men bring, but she can only have one of them, what a horrible problem to have, too many rich men trying to empower you! So she rides out as well, after them, calling out a name...
I mean, Hallmark movies more or less write themselves. Every single one is the exact same plot with different costumes: Hollywood-Ugly Woman has zero luck with men. Suddenly TWO men who are both highly desirable randomly lavish attention on her. She picks one. The end.
True. But they are popular. I have joked that every movie picks from 4 or 5 basic plots. Lately not being woke makes me like something a lot more.
Yippie Ki Yay and Happy Father's Day, motherfucker (literally).
While not action, I do remember watching Merlin several times. I was young and I think I missed a few things but it was a good movie. The Lion in Winter was also good.
This are movies that both guys and girls can watch.
gay
Seriously though women like movies with muscly guys doing muscly guy things.
Jean claude van damme movies had a huge female audience. And that made for actually good date movies where the guys watched for the action and the women watched for the titillation.
The problem is that unless you insert diversity, faggotry, feminism, and subversion you won't get any press, distribution, or support. So it has to be fully independent or kickstarted like Range 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ih2shyqu8Y
Not serious zombie movie made by veterans just fucking around. Makes fun of trannies and homos in the first few minutes.
No kidding, I remember I was grossed out by my mom and her friends talking about the guy in the highlander TV series. They were all watching that show.
Thanks I’ll check it out. As a teen a guy at school who was very popular with ladies told me that reading romance novels will help me understand how women think. I can say that advice has yet to show any results.
Women are really easy to understand. The confusion is only there because our evironment effectively conspires to hide the truth and destroy any person who speaks it publicly.
They have three basic directives: 1 fuck chad 2 avoid accountability 3 seek attention. Different women weigh each directive differently. As women age the empasis generally shifts from 1 to 3 because younger women automatically get attention without effort.
But the fact that men like attractive women and women like attractive men is ignored. That last Charlie’s angels movie could’ve done better with an attractive cast.
You also describe the James Bond formula. Men want to be him and women want to be with him. Hollywood seems to ignore that now.
Is it? No wonder I couldn't stand watching it, despite being the mainstream wholesome channel.
Hallmark is hilarious. The simplest, most basic plots and characters and women are fucking riveted. Every movie is exactly the same with different actors.
there's only so many times i can hear "super independent career woman who won't take no for an answer" before i start hating it.
I don't want it to revolved around me. I just want a woman who isn't fucking neurotic, insane friends/family/neighbors who exist only to make the single woman breed, and a hunky lead, one whose butt doesn't squeak like a deflating balloon everytime he stands up.