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A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022)
Don't waste your time on this absurdly contrived plot with holes big enough to push Santa's sleigh through
Decades-old cookie company with a "secret recipe" that no one seems to know by heart. Only one printed/physical copy of the recipe which they inexplicably keep on display in a glass case in the cookie shop. And the electronic files used in the manufacturing have been erased, with an utterly clueless IT guy who apparently didn't keep backups.
Why are the movies so utterly clueless and the plots so absurdly contrived?
Flashed me back to the episode of "Friends" where Phoebe's grandmother's chocolate-chip cookie secret recipe turned out to be printed on every package of a major brand's chocolate chips.
Skip this one. Not even worth rage-watching.
Bottled with Love (2019)
We're only 32 minutes and there are already way too many absurd coincidences
Woman main character has a bad experience at a wedding and ends up writing a letter to the potential love of her life. Puts the message in a bottle and throws the bottle into Boston harbor. Guy main character finds the bottle on a beach in Maine a few months later, then happens to get called back to his hometown for a short-term project with his family's company, where bottle-throwing woman happens to work. And they just *happen* to be thrown together to work on the big project, and OF COURSE their working relationship starts off rocky.
Oh, and the man's dad and sister, who run the company, talked about trying to make a love match between the main characters because they'd be such a good match.
Just... no. This is a bad movie. Even in the fantasyland portrayed by Hallmark romance movies, there are way too many absurd coincidences to allow suspension of disbelief. "You've Got Mail" did a similar story and did it much better.
Backdraft (1991)
Good way to spend a couple hours
Yes, it has plot holes; yes, it ignores standard firefighting safety guidelines; yes, the acting at times is laughable. But I liked it. The effects are mesmerizing -- seeing the flame ripple across the ceiling, it's almost a living creature. Jennifer Jason Leigh, not one of my favorites anyway, is wasted in a throwaway role.
The American President (1995)
Funny and touching look behind the scenes at the White House
One of my favorite movies of the last few years. Michael Douglas and Annette Bening shine in the lead roles, and the supporting actors (Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer and the others) are outstanding.