The previous two evenings, my younger brother was home before 9:00 p.m. from wherever it was that he had been drinking, and he held onto full consciousness. This bound me into T9 Android 8.1 TV Box duty for the remainder of the evening fetching up episodes of the T.V. series we follow, since he does not know how to operate the device.
Yes, I enjoy catching up on our T.V. series; but it results in me being unable to rise early overnight and potentially getting away for a good pre-dawn walk, for I do not get to bed after such T.V.-watching events until around 1:00 a.m.
I can handle having this occur on occasion, but when it becomes a successive daily event, it is to my peril ─ I need my early a.m. activity, for I cannot face the bustling daytime world to do my walking.
If fortune smiles upon me come this evening, my brother will stay with his girlfriend Bev and spend the night at her home, and I can have an exceptionally early Sunday.
Last evening he got home around 8:30 p.m., forcing me to cancel out of a Christmas movie I was watching via the YouTube 'app' I have downloaded into our Android TV Box. My brother is a misery who blasphemes that sort of fare, so I would only have the movie utterly ruined if I had stuck with it.
A similar interruption took place Thursday evening, and I had to abort another movie I had tuned in via the YouTube 'app'. I finished watching it early last evening.
The movie is the third in the Hallmark trilogy featuring Peter Falk as the Christmas angel Max.
The first two movies are 2001's A Town Without Christmas and 2003's Finding John Christmas; this last movie is from 2004 and titled When Angels Come to Town.
In the case of the last movie, the "angels" were of course Max, but also his supervisor Jo as portrayed by Katey Sagal ─ the actress of course is famous for her role as Peg Bundy in the long-running T.V. series Married... with Children.
I always thought Peg looked pretty damned hot, and could never understand why her husband Al Bundy so detested being physically intimate with her.
Wow! ─ Katey had her 65th birthday back in January of this year?
As I had previously complained about in the first two movies, Max continues to lie and deny ─ a trait I cannot believe a genuine angel would practice.
One of the lead actors in this specific movie was Tammy Blanchard, who seems to have quite a decent acting background. And although I thought that her slightly skewed and fetching partial smile helped make her seem familiar to me, I cannot identify any reason in her acting past to have given me cause for that seeming familiarity.
She was definitely cute to watch in the movie!
As for my impression of the trilogy, I would rate Finding John Christmas as having the most emotional impact for me ─ which is why I watch Christmas movies, after all. I have a bizarre need to be reduced to sobbing, or at least tears. When Angels Came to Town garners second place with me. And of course, the first movie in the trilogy ─ A Town Without Christmas ─ came in last by my ranking.
None of them were especially moving for me, but collectively I deem them to be a worthy addition to the roster I am lining up for my brother and his girlfriend Bev when he brings her here for our usual two-day Christmastime Christmas movie binge. Since I operate the Amazon TV Box, it is mainly up to me to pick the movies we watch.
Obviously the movies have to be judged by me now as worth re-watching come Christmastime.
I am deliberately selecting some of these fairly older movies because they often feature actors and actresses who may not yet have become well known, but whose 'historical' presentations are wonderful surprises to find and watch now in the present.
Thanks to our Android TV Box and the various 'apps' that can be downloaded into it, the chances are quite good that any old or recent Christmas movie is available for watching through some source or other.
Thus far I have only begun to seek out those movies from the early 2000s, but I am considering venturing far into the past, for I know that there are many old Christmas movies I watched on T.V. as a kid or teen and have not seen since.
Fortunately, it is easy enough to find most of those old movies named ─ after all, without knowing the name of a Christmas movie, how can it be found?
As an example of the ease with which the names of Christmas movies can be located, Wikipedia has the article List of Christmas films. Now, they are presented in alphabetical order; however, by tweaking the "Year" category at the very top of those listings, you can choose to have the list arranged by year of release.
As an example of the ease with which the names of Christmas movies can be located, Wikipedia has the article List of Christmas films. Now, they are presented in alphabetical order; however, by tweaking the "Year" category at the very top of those listings, you can choose to have the list arranged by year of release.
It is similar at IMDb.com where you can find All Christmas Hallmark Movies listed (up until the list was last edited in December 2018) and Lifetime Christmas Movie List (also last edited in December 2018) ─ these two lists are excellent for comparing with Wikipedia.
That is especially so for Hallmark Christmas movies, because Wikipedia has an article titled List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies where the movies are filed by year ─ just select a year and see if the IMDb Hallmark Christmas movies for that year are included at Wikipedia.
There are two types of Christmas movie that I will not bother to try and find ─ cartoons or animations, and movies centred around pets such as dogs that are portrayed with human-level thoughts that we are made privy to.
Heck, where pets are concerned, I am not even interested in movies that showcase a pet as the central character as was done with the Saint Bernard in the Beethoven franchise. I'm a grumpy 70-year-old now, but even as a young man I disliked this sort of fare.
So any kind of Christmas movie that smacks of any of this will not have me tuning in. I am so adamant about this that when I was fairly recently watching all of Jennifer Aniston's movies over a period of months, I skipped one movie in which some mutt had the lead role, and at least one other movie where she only voiced a cartoon character.
I absolutely adore Jennifer Aniston, but I just can't stomach pet-central movies, and I don't care for family cartoons and animations.
Earlier I mentioned how my younger brother had interrupted my initial attempt Thursday evening to watch When Angels Come to Town, as well as yet another Christmas movie I was deep into last evening.
However, I will not identify last evening's interrupted movie just yet, but I definitely would like to continue with the feature now ─ it is already approaching 5:00 p.m., so I am going to bring this post to a close.
I had an exceptionally good nap this latter morning. Nevertheless, I will likely seek another after I finish watching the Christmas movie because I intend to watch it while doing a little drinking ─ the alcohol always enhances the emotional impact of Christmas movies for me.
The nap would be necessary if I think that I have it in me to get out this evening to do some sort of shopping. Since I do not drive, I have to walk everywhere I want to go.
Anyway, that's enough for today!
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