![]() Beginning to think her potential students dodged a real bullet by her not taking the teaching gig. There’s basically a flashing neon sign that says “Christmas clock this way” and Cahill still takes minutes to walk by it, sit in front of it, gaze at it and then, finally, the realization dawns. The whole thing hinges on this missing Christmas clock we see Charles buy at the beginning of the movie and Cahill, whose great-grandmother was Charles’ maid Rosie, takes about a decade to discover it in a prominent, free-standing, clear glass case at the university we are supposed to think she’s been attending for years or, at the very least, going through a lengthy academia application process at. For a genius inventor, Charles is pretty slow on the uptake. That it took Charles longer to grasp the idea of “everyone deserves to be happy” than the concept of time travel is…something. Then Charles walks all the way from Evergreen to Riverdale, to have a bite to eat at Pop’s Diner, and re-state the already very exposition-y lesson we’d just learned. ![]() There, a magical Christmas tree decorator then explains to Charles that, no, his rival was a great guy, actually, even though he stole Charles’ mill method (this is never elaborated upon), and he and Eliza lived happily ever after which…OK? Not sure why knowing his wife-to-be moved on with someone he hated would make Charles feel better, but now he doesn’t have to feel guilty about falling in love with Cahill, I guess. Hope they just left the lights up between all the filming. ![]() And, like, seriously, does Hallmark own this place now, because this is at least the third 2020 Hallmark holiday movie it makes an appearance in. Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, B.C., to recover. Then Cahill finally drops the big, incredibly obvious reveal that Charles’ 1903 fiancee, Eliza, married his big bad business rival (scandal!) and Charles has to go for a walk in Evergreen (holy shared universe, Batman), a.k.a. ![]() Oh, Hallmark, you can even make a time travel romance seem rote. Either Kenny is the worst museum director ever, or a whole slew of Charles Whitley Mansion cleaning staff need to be let go immediately.Ĭahill’s character repeatedly tells Charles how much the world has changed…All while they proceed to fall in love in a way that would have seemed chaste even for 1903, like decorating a Christmas tree at her parent’s house, and going Christmas shopping. I mean, seriously, no one has moved that (brand-new looking) rug in over a hundred years? Because that cut out is super obvious. The way Charles convinces Cahill’s character, who did her dissertation on Whitley, he’s the real guy, is via a secret scar on his hand, and a much less secret space beneath the floorboards where Charles hid a journal in 1903. Though not quickly enough for Paevey, who asks her at about minute 10 of the movie, “You still don’t believe me, do you?” I mean, dude, you just popped into the present about 20 minutes ago, maybe give her a night to sleep on it? Paevey plays Charles Whitley, an early 1900s inventor, who buys his fiancee a Christmas clock, then after repairing and winding it on Christmas Eve, wakes up to find strangers in his house, now a museum, filming him with iPhones.ĭespite how jarring all this would be, Paevey’s Charles seems pretty non-plussed at all the future tech, laughing at a joke about Internet cat pictures, and figuring out what a cell phone does in seconds flat, despite also being scandalized anyone would wear “dungarees” on a public street.Įrin Cahill’s museum docent/Charles Whitley-maid cosplayer also is pretty quick to accept the whole, he’s-a-time-traveler bit. Sorry, every-other-Christmas-movie, your director is definitely not this awesome. From the movie-spanning mythology that is “Kenny Kwon,” to just being the gosh darn best, Ron Oliver elevates every project he touches, including A Timeless Christmas, based on the (Hallmark) book by Alexis Stanton. Sure, he’s behind the camera, not in front of it, and I guess people like that Ryan Paevey guy, who also made Christmas at the Plaza with Oliver last season, but, seriously, Oliver is a treasure, and I hope Hallmark knows that. If you don’t know who director Ron Oliver is, you’re missing out on one of Hallmark’s most delightful stars. Where to Watch?: Hallmark will replay it multiple times this season, and for every season in perpetuity
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