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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 04:53:26 JST Paul Cantrell

   I want to express my deep respect for the movie Christmas on Mistletoe Farm.

   It is a ridiculous, pandering, saccharine dopamine hit. Its characters are cartoonish. Its plot barely exists. Its entire purpose is to deliver the same dopamine hit as binging YouTube videos of adorable animals and adorable kids and adorable baby animals, but suspended in enough a gooey binder of generic Christmas-family-heartstring gelatin that it technically qualifies as a movie.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 04:59:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     The movie knows this, and does not get itself bogged down in such nonsense as trying to have layers for the grown-ups or a cynical edge or a subtle layer of cinematic craft or a central point or (god forbid) a Deeper Message. It does not aspire to be respected. It has the single-mindedness of a candy manufacturer: it knows •exactly• what it is, and dammit, hell with you all, it’s going to •be• that — right down to the color saturation settings in post-production.

     It knows itself. Respect.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 07:47:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dreaming of dad jazz.

     @michaelcoyote
     It’s at least as much about family and cute animals, but that gets super weird when you put it in those terms

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     Dreaming of dad jazz. (michaelcoyote@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 07:47:30 JST Dreaming of dad jazz.

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     @inthehands sounds a lot like porn.

     Basically it's Christmas porn.