Love Christmas with all my heart. Love the fun and nostalgia it brings, and cherish all the time spent with family and friends every year. As well singing all the Christmas songs and carols and re-visiting as many of the films and special as possible. Recently wanted to see some different and new Christmas films to stretch my horizons beyond the ones traditionally watched every year. Feelings have been extremely mixed doing this and even when trying to take them for what they're meant to be quite a good deal of them have been lacking.
Of which 'Christmas with a View' has stood out in a bad way, in that it was one of the worst. Did watch it expecting some cheese and schmaltz (as long as it wasn't overdone), but was not expecting to bombarded so excessively by both that it made for uncomfortable viewing. And then there is the further problem of pretty much everything done on an amateurish level, this was another example of a film when there was the serious temptation to turn it off (another recent example being 'New Years Eve') but stayed with it to be fair. Absolutely hate judging films unfairly or on a biased level, have always really tried to make it my duty to not do it.
'Christmas with a View' has next to nothing good about it apart from the scenery. Which was wasted by photography and editing suggestive of somebody who was not sober. Nothing memorable about the music, which sometimes was placed questionably. 'Christmas with a View' felt like it was directed by someone who had no idea what to do with the film, it was just so disorganised.
As was the script, as well as being heavy gratingly so on the cheese, soap, cringe and schmaltz, it was as others have said jumpy and borderline incoherent. The story is the same, on top of being very dull and predictable, next to nothing made any sense and was ridiculous. As said already, did have to refrain from switching the film after being so embarrassed by the first portion due to how bad the dialogue and camera work and how the characters had already grated on my nerves.
Something that continued for the rest of the film, either the stereotypical characters were dull as dishwater or were insufferably irritating. There was no chemistry between the leads, with the actors looking like they hated each other. The acting is a mix of going over the top and robotic, nobody looked comfortable as their characters and it made me uncomfortable watching them.
In summary, awful and not worth the viewing. 1/10 Bethany Cox
Of which 'Christmas with a View' has stood out in a bad way, in that it was one of the worst. Did watch it expecting some cheese and schmaltz (as long as it wasn't overdone), but was not expecting to bombarded so excessively by both that it made for uncomfortable viewing. And then there is the further problem of pretty much everything done on an amateurish level, this was another example of a film when there was the serious temptation to turn it off (another recent example being 'New Years Eve') but stayed with it to be fair. Absolutely hate judging films unfairly or on a biased level, have always really tried to make it my duty to not do it.
'Christmas with a View' has next to nothing good about it apart from the scenery. Which was wasted by photography and editing suggestive of somebody who was not sober. Nothing memorable about the music, which sometimes was placed questionably. 'Christmas with a View' felt like it was directed by someone who had no idea what to do with the film, it was just so disorganised.
As was the script, as well as being heavy gratingly so on the cheese, soap, cringe and schmaltz, it was as others have said jumpy and borderline incoherent. The story is the same, on top of being very dull and predictable, next to nothing made any sense and was ridiculous. As said already, did have to refrain from switching the film after being so embarrassed by the first portion due to how bad the dialogue and camera work and how the characters had already grated on my nerves.
Something that continued for the rest of the film, either the stereotypical characters were dull as dishwater or were insufferably irritating. There was no chemistry between the leads, with the actors looking like they hated each other. The acting is a mix of going over the top and robotic, nobody looked comfortable as their characters and it made me uncomfortable watching them.
In summary, awful and not worth the viewing. 1/10 Bethany Cox