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Christmas at Dollywood (2019)
Fine for Hallmark
9 out of 10 for a Hallmark movie, 3 out of 10 for a regular movie.
Few notes
1.) This is your typical Hallmark movie. Love story, career issues, and so on. It's not a documentary so it's not about Dollywood, it's a love story about visiting Dollywood to save the holidays
Lack of Dollywood:
1.) Dollywood is a busy park with multiple festivals and not just Christmas. Dollywood setup their Christmas lights in portions of Dollywood very early. We are talking before summer! Some of the movie was shot in August. The rest of it was shot first of November. Dollywood can't have the entire park decked out in Christmas all season. In August, it's 100+ degrees here at Dollywood
2.) The movie isn't a documentary about Dollywood, it's about a "Hometown Christmas" where they visit Dollywood
Don't come into it expecting a documentary about Dollywood. It's a Hallmark love story and that's it
Hemlock Grove (2013)
Great Show
I have always liked Eli Roth titles. This one is no exception. It has his style of horror and gore in the show but also has a nice drama addition to it. The drama actually kept me interested and made me want to watch the very next episode just to see what happens. I felt the acting was great and everything about this show was great.
I feel like a lot of the bad reviews are from people who haven't seen many Eli Roth titles. If so, they would see that everything from the special effects to the way the show was filmed is all in his style. There is nothing "cheap" about it. It's just the way Eli Roth does things.
I cannot wait until season two comes out. Season one left a lot of open questions. It also did a real good job answering a lot of its own questions if you watched the entire season.
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)
Fun Movie
Fun movie, nothing more nothing less.. Most horror movies now days are cliché, same o same o, but are fun.. this movie is the same.. follows most horror clichés but fun in it's own way. i love the wrong turn series... this is probably the second best of the series. don't expect a deep movie.. if you are looking for that, look elsewhere.. just sit back and relax with a bag of popcorn and have fun..
the movie is very gory and has very original death scenes much like the other movies in this series... the ending however is quite different.. probably one of my favorite horror movie endings in a while. put it this way, I'm glad i stuck around and didn't carry my coke can to the kitchen early because the movie seemed to because over..
all in all, a fun movie... one last bit of information, if you have never seen any movie in this series you will be fine watching this.. there are about 10 mins of the movie at the beginning that i would consider a "prequel " if you have seen the other movies in this series but if you have never seen 1 - 3 you will not be lost at all.. this movie could stand alone..