Fall Into Winter

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This movie was dull. The storyline was utilitarian. We've seen many similar stories before in this genre, so it shouldn't have sunk the movie on its own. The actors weren't great. Loughlin still has her obvious beauty, but she gets more and more fake with her acting as the years go by. Her line delivery was so stilted. Tupper's wasn't great either. Tupper and Loughlin did a great job being awkward, but watching two leads be awkward for an entire movie isn't a great watch. And the music...this was another fatal flaw. It seemed like it was designed to drive viewers crazy. If your script isn't conveying the emotion you want then fix the script. Don't layer on this awful non-music music to try to evoke a feeling. Dull story, bad script, awkward leads, poor line delivery, and annoying backing music. It's a miracle I made it through this one.

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Let's start with the title--what does that even mean? Okay, I was never a LL fan, but curious, so I watched this and was mad at myself for days for wasting time on this. LL is terrible (I don't think she really was a good actress to begin with). She is stiff, stony, no sense of humor and has never left her town. She's 58 years old in real life, so I am assuming she's the same age in the movie and she's been in this town her entire life? JT is bland as bland can be and not believable as a brilliant investor. If he was, he wouldn't have invested in this candy shop. All LL's character talked about was how busy they were with Winterfest, and at this Winterfest, there was hardly anyone there. And someone pushing 60 shouldn't be reliving her high school days. Sadly it was just ridiculous and boring, and the end was as well.

It's difficult to identify why we deleted this on the DVR, because it was bad in so many ways. {And this has nothing to do with Lori's prison stretch. She paid the price and that's over}. The premise of her her brother suddenly moving and pressing her to agree to sell his half to an investor was just not realistic. That successful investor guy walking in and trying to take over a tiny candy shop was ridiculous. The faked awkward chemistry was obvious. Who thought this setup was a good movie idea? A moron did obviously. Bad script, awkward acting, weird circumstances, and just plain bad. So we hit delete and moved on. I gave it a "3" since I was feeling generous (and embarrassed for everyone involved). Here's a word of advice: Next time put on your thinking cap so you don't repeat this dog.

I was really looking forward to Lori Loughlin's return. She needed a better script. She tried, but this movie was awful. Honestly couldn't finish it. She was good, but she could not carry the whole movie. The script was terrible. I never felt a connection between her and the male lead. He seemed boring. It was so predictable. The background music was annoying. I kept wanting to turn the music down so I could attempt to enjoy the movie. I restarted the movie 3 times and the music would start and I would get annoyed and turn it off. I could have tried the close captioning option, but that's aggravating also. Please keep her in the movies, but please find some better writers.

Okay, so I used to love Lori Laughlin in When Calls the Heart in the first few seasons. She wasn't amazing, but I guess I didn't expect much good acting from her back then, at least not enough to notice that she's a pretty crap actress. I see it now in this movie. I just loved the character in WCTH is all, I didn't love Lori Loughlin herself. So with all her personal life drama I was somewhat on the fence about watching this at first. I honestly didn't care much about what she did beyond realizing that she severely screwed up and did noting to fix it, just expected to gloss it over. Still, I like feel good movies and it seems Hallmark actors have all migrated over to GAC, so here I am giving the movies a try. Except that this movie was awful, like seriously awful. It was so boring and I spent 5 days just to get through it. I fell asleep on three different occasions because I kept putting it off til later in the night to continue watching and it would just put me to sleep. Her acting was awful, nothing could've saved this movie with her in it. The whole cast wasn't awful, just her, and the male lead wasn't so great either. He kind of creeped me out and there was zero chemistry and I just didn't feel the warm happy feels I get from Hallmark movies. So, I remember the whole big deal about GAC being the new network designed for family based Christian values and if you're a "good Christian" according to Candace Cameron Bure then this is the network you're supposed to watch. Okay, but then I see Lori Laughlin on there in a new movie and it really made me feel like the network is pretty blatantly hypocritical. I mean it's not like she didn't commit actual crimes...she really did and it was proven without a doubt, extensive crimes too. So if this is the Christian values network then why are they endorsing and supporting her? It honestly just kind of rubbed me the wrong way and sent me back to Hallmark. Hallmark seems to have something that GAC movies and their scripts are missing. The characters have no emotion on GAC movies, the spark is missing in the scripts even though it's the same actors and actresses. Why have they all become so wooden all of a sudden when they had so much life before?? Yet I've been watching because I grew to love the acting of most of the actors and actresses who migrated from Hallmark, plus I'm supposed to watch GAC now, right? If I want to support the Christian values it represents then apparently I should be watching this network, because that's what it represents. Except it obviously is a lie because it doesn't genuinely represent Christian values and it just represents bigotry. I may not be happy at all with the changes Hallmark made...so I don't watch those movies. I think the lack of numbers for those movies alone is enough to show them their errors and eventually they'll realize that they messed up and do something to fix it. However, it is hypocritical of GAC to claim to be the network of Christian values in all these news articles and then endorse someone who has been incredibly awful if you give real thought to the extent of thought and actions that went into her schemes and acts from a Christian perspective. It wasn't a simple "I was misled and didn't know better" situation. She created a web of lies, she misled, she bribed, she cheated and conned, many times. A lot of thought, deceit, and manipulation went into it all for a lengthy amount of time. This wasn't a small one time mistake, which is why she was convicted. Through it all and since then she has only exhibited entitlement, arrogance, and never once showed any remorse to make the public believe she genuinely feels bad about what she did or that she even sees the wrong in her prideful behavior. So, it taints GAC and whoever made the choice. These verses call to mind for anyone from GAC reading, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 2 Corinthian 6:14, Psalm 1:1-6.

The story wasn't half bad and John Tupper was good so 3 stars but the outstanding question is why chose her. For ratings? Fan favourite? From comments doesn't seem to have gone so well. Didn't go out of my way to watch it but it came up on you tube movie surfing. There are dozens of other female actresses who are of the same calibre or better. Lori Loughlin required a judge's decision to allow her to leave the US to film in Canada and Canada to accept her because she is a felon. Hope she had to pay all the costs to the two governments. There are many more good actresses, she should move out of the way and spend that time with her daughters.

High hopes for this one and Lori's return to movies despite the many recent Christmas movie disappointments from Great American Family. Unfortunately, this was a huge disappointment with a distinct low-budget feel including: -Annoying background music throughout the entire movie -Terrible "winter" decor consisting of obvious fake snow carpets, cheap tinsel garlands, and odd leftover Christmas decorations. -An unconvincing candy shop set with very little candy and no display cases, but plenty of diner-style counter stools. -Absolutely no chemistry between the poorly matched leads. -Awkward dialogue and a plodding storyline.