I usually don't see the bad in films, but this one had so many annoying things. Granted, I was only half paying attention and chose to take a shower in the middle of watching it, but even at that I noticed several things that I didn't care for. First there was the girl's hair - I have never cared for super short hair on women - and there was no indication of recent illness. There was the hint of the family in the beginning being in the film making a cute family film which didn't return until the end. Instead, we were left with the two leads acting off of one another. That works most of the time, but not here. When it works there is the first initial attraction, the conflict with witty bantering, the realization of misjudgment, and the resolution. Instead the two characters go back and forth between getting along and not getting along and nothing much interesting happens in the process. Like someone said, there needed to be some action. There also needed to be some comic relief there somewhere. The pacing was not well done. The music was unoriginal - too loud and with mall Christmas tunes, rather than unique arrangements of Christmas music or Christmas sounding music, without being so obviously Christmas music. It was like they purchased it from somewhere and just stuck it in. Many have commented on the scenic shots. Those too annoyed me. Like the music, the film looked like it was purchased from some stock footage. It looked too glossy and to me didn't match and didn't fit. The cabin - yeah, too modern for a early twentieth cabin. And by the way, after 80 years of two families sharing a cabin how was it that no one ever ran into one another and as it was passed from parent to child how was the legal issues of ownerships never noticed? And the ending - as someone esle pointed out where was the girl who now discovers the need for Christmas not suddenly showing up at her brother's home on Christmas with an arm load of gifts. Where by the way the male lead's family? Were they not as well missing him on Christmas?
If this airs again, I will give it a second look, but I won't be excited about it.
If this airs again, I will give it a second look, but I won't be excited about it.