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Hello everyone.
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My name is Renee.
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You are listening to the Forever Hallmark Christmas podcast where we review one thing and one thing only.
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Hallmark Christmas movies.
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I'm joined by Mr.
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Christmas himself.
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Rich, how you doing, buddy?
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I'm doing good, Renee.
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The final movie of week number three.
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This will be number nine, and I'm ready to go for week number four soon, hard to say, but yeah, we uh we went to Denmark for uh for the end of week number three.
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So excited to talk about this one today.
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Yeah, so just to let everybody know, there's a spoiler alerts.
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So if you have not seen it and you don't like spoiler alerts, because I know I don't like spoiler alerts, pause us, go watch this on Hallmark Plus.
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Uh there are spoiler alerts, so please uh you know pause and come back to this later, if you'd like.
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Uh today we are reviewing a Danish Christmas released on Sunday, November 1st, 2026.
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If you missed it Sunday night, it's available in Hallmark Plus by the time this podcast airs.
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Uh this movie starring the adorable Emily Ullerup as Marie, as uh or Marie, as they say, a Chicago Hotel Technology Executive, whatever that is.
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And Corrier, Cory, is it Sevier?
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I'm imagining it's Sevier.
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Yep, Sevier as Ryan Miller, an American visiting Copenhagen, who is like deceptively like really in good shape.
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He's super buffed.
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There is a shirtless scene here for you ladies that you can definitely appreciate.
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Uh supporting cast is Kyle Cassie as the other Ryan Miller, uh, Adam Bricks, Alexander Wardenskold, Andrasen, uh Marie Ann Jesperson, and Kith Caroline Lowenhart.
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Those are hard to say.
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Uh this movie is directed by Colin Vaze.
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And this written by the screenplay was by Juliana Wimbles, based on a story by Emily Ularop herself and Linda Carolai.
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R FHC Logline.
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A Chicago executive returns to Copenhagen to save her family's inn, only to discover she's been giving the Royal Christmas treatment to the wrong Ryan Miller.
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Apparently in Denmark, mistaken identity comes with complimentary romance.
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There's no IMDB rating yet, but I'm sure we'll get back to that.
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Later, uh, I did come up with one or two little fun facts in case you didn't, Rich, but do you have any fun facts?
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No, you know, I usually do the fun facts during our non-uh countdown to Christmas uh season, so I'll let you take the fun facts for sure.
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Well, fun fact this one was actually filled in Copenhagen, Denmark, where Emily was born.
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I did not know that about her.
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And the actor Kyle Casey, or Cassie, who plays the real journalist, the real Ryan Miller, is also her husband in real life.
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Uh that I did not know either.
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So that was a two things I did not know.
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Very good.
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And Renee, one of our most popular episodes that we've ever done is our fantasy draft with Gary Namie from Poor of the Wine.
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It's rom-com time.
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We drafted 28 of the 34 movies in kind of a fantasy football style draft.
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Uh, this movie, number 19, uh taken by Gary in the fourth round.
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So, yeah, if you haven't checked out that podcast, we had a lot of fun.
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And if you want to thought you know, hear what we thought about all of the 2026 movies and which movies we were most excited about, that's an easy podcast to listen to and kind of find out all about the 2026 Christmas movies.
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For sure.
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Well, let's get right into it.
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What are your overall thoughts on this movie?
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So, Rennie, there's a movie from about five or six years ago called Five Star Christmas, Victor Webster, Bethany Joy Lentz, and it's basically the exact same storyline as this movie.
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This it's five this movie is Five Star Christmas set in Copenhagen.
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Five Star Christmas, uh, you know, there's an inn that's at risk of being sold or closing down.
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Bethany Joy Lentz is there, and there is a travel writer coming into town.
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Uh, and that travel writer could do really good things to keep the inn going.
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And then, of course, there's a mistaken identity as to actually who the travel writer is.
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And this is a very similar storyline, but the big difference is here, and we did a bold predictions podcast, and you and I asked the question what would be the best potential Christmas setting?
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And we both said this movie.
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And I don't think we were wrong.
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Uh I think it's Copenhagen, I think it's Denmark that really made this movie what it was.
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Um, so yeah, I enjoyed this one.
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Uh, I'll give a little spoiler right now in terms of my wife and I watched these together.
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This was my wife's favorite movie of the season so far.
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So she really enjoyed uh this movie.
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Oh this movie started off really good for me.
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It was very funny early on.
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Uh I felt it slowed down in the last third of the movie, but overall it's an easy casual watch.
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I liked Emily's facial expressions in several in several scenes.
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I thought she was just adorable and funny, super likable.
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I liked how they use words in Danish a few times.
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Uh that was kind of cute with you know the subtitles there.
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And the food looked incredible.
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So, what are some things that you really liked?
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Yeah, I mean it really put Denmark and Copenhagen overall in a really good light.
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The city was shot beautifully in this movie.
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They did a really good job in terms of the cinematography, the production quality, obviously shot on location there uh in Denmark.
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So kudos to them.
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Uh Amelia, as you mentioned, she is Danish and she speaks the language, and I thought that really added to the authenticity of this movie.
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Uh also hearing about all the Danish culture, all those little tidbits they've thrown in.
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Again, you mentioned Amelia Ulrup uh was one of the ideas who came up with a story for this movie before the script was written, and that makes sense.
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Uh I love the lit kayaks on the canal at night.
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That's a real thing called kayak Lucia or Lucia.
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I'm not sure, but uh that is a real thing.
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And if you look at pictures, there's a lot more kayaks in real life when that event takes place uh during the holidays than there is in that movie.
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But that was a really beautiful scene that they shot.
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Uh you mentioned shirtless uh Corey Sevier and Amelia Olarup.
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Don't forget we got her in a little bathing suit as well.
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That sauna and cold plunge scene was a lot of fun.
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Something I don't think I've seen in a uh a Hallmark Christmas movie before.
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I've done a cold plunge before, Renee, but it's usually been in Hawaii.
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Uh so it's a lot different, I think, doing a cold plunge when it's 85
degrees out versus when it's probably, you know, zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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Uh it definitely looked like those guys were cold.
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Uh you and I love a good Christmas market in the Copenhagen Christmas market.
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Did not disappoint in this movie.
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It was great.
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And of course, hooga, which translates to a sense of cozy, contented, and safe everyday well-being.
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Uh, it was really curious, cool hearing about hooga and the whole Danish lifestyle throughout this film.
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Yeah, you pretty much took almost every single thing that I picked as well.
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You let me go first, that's what happens.
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That's what happens.
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So I will, in addition to the things that you said, because I had those as well, uh, beautiful scenic shots and the house where they stayed with her and her sister was lovely.
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The colors are there, are amazing.
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Kayaking in the channel with all the lights, that was super cool.
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I did laugh at the cold plunge scene, that was great.
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And when Emily starts counting that out really fast, like one, like 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 33, like get out of here.
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It's so we're freezing.
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That cracked me up so much.
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And then when Ryan said, Oh, it's blankets and snacks, same as her brother-in-law, and she said, No, it's a it's a hookah experience, just like she said to her brother-in-law.
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It was so funny to me.
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Like that, that was uh it just cracked me up.
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I did like how they showed some of the Danish traditions, or at least I hope they're real Danish traditions.
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I'm sure they are.
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She being from Denmark, I'm sure she's legit there.
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Excuse my voice.
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Yeah, I think she really wanted Denmark and those traditions to come across as authentic and realistic.
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Yeah, I'm I'm sure you're spot on on that one.
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And the last thing is uh once the second Ryan got there, uh it cracked me up about how many things started just going wrong on the tour.
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Once the second Ryan got there, it was so comical.
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I really enjoyed some of those scenes.
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Having said that, what are some things we'd fix in rewrites?
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Yeah, uh so I wanted a mid-movie kiss in this one.
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I mean, when she chases down Ryan after he leaves the hotel, Ryan number one, I should say, the first time.
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And then afterwards, immediately they're kind of there by candlelight, I go, Oh, that is a perfect mid-movie kiss.
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And you and I are all about the mid-movie kiss.
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I could have used one right then and there.
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Renee, when the kid throws the hot chocolate on Ryan number two during the tour, we we need to make that look more natural.
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Like somebody bumped into him and he accidentally spilled it.
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It's like he took it and just threw it on the guy.
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I'm all okay, we need a little uh the direction.
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Let's get that a little bit right and make it look like it was an accident.
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I don't think the kid meant to throw it on him.
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So let's make that look a little more like an accident.
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But if I had one reader write at all, I don't think Ryan number two needed to come back at all uh towards the end of the story.
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I don't think it really did anything for the end of the story.
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The positive stuff he wrote about it really had no effect on whether the inn was gonna stay in business or shut down.
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I don't think he needed to come back at all.
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I I I would have just let him go and and never seen the guy again and thrown on some other stuff into the movie.
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I'm sure we could have put, you know, found some other little uh fun stuff about Denmark and the Danish culture for those couple minutes.
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We didn't have him back.
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So that's that's the one thing I'd rewrite is let's lose Ryan number two after he leaves uh the hotel the first time.
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Yeah.
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For me, and I don't know how I'd how I'd fix this.
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Likely we don't say you know what we would do to fix it, we would just say what we would fix if we could.
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Uh I think the pacing of this movie really slowed down towards the middle and the end.
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Like I said, I don't know how I'd fix that, but this is a section I would like to have seen rewritten to keep it moving along for me.
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I I don't know how, but and the one that is a big rewrite for me is like Ryan fell in love in one week.
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Like, we don't like that.
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But it is part of the hallmark spirit.
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He said, Oh, I've I've I've fallen in love with and then he was gonna say you.
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Clearly he was gonna say with you, but
then he goes with Denmark, but he meant to say you.
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I was like, Okay, dude, you've been there not even seven days.
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Like, that is crazy.
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But I do believe in the spirit of love and hallmark, but in real life, that is a crazy move.
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That that really that's something I would definitely try to fix in in a rewrite.
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You know, I think I would like to see, like, you know, I've really I'm growing quite fond of you.
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I'd like to know more of you, something along those lines, more natural.
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Yeah.
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I I like you a lot.
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I mean I like Denmark a lot, yeah, yeah.
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You have a favorite moment.
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I know that you do.
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Oh, we always do, and usually you and I are different.
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I mean, very rarely are we ever the same favorite moment, but who knows?
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Maybe one of these days we'll match up this Christmas season.
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But I have it when Ryan and Marie were walking through Copenhagen uh at night towards the end of the movie, and then we see the kids doing the candle walk and singing, and then the camera at the very end of the scene pulls back and shows that beautiful shot of the Copenhagen Christmas market.
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Uh, yeah, I think that's my favorite scene overall.
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Just beautifully shot, beautifully well done, kind of brought out some Danish culture.
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Yeah, that that's that's mine.
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Yeah, well, at least my favorite scene or moment takes place on the market.
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Not quite the same reasons as yours.
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I like when they were all at the market and Marie had all these things scheduled for the real Ryan, and the real Ryan Miller goes, like, well, why don't we just go explore?
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And she kept trying on her own, and and she kept trying to like get him to go with her so she could show him the all the things that she wants to show him.
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He's like, Yeah, I'm gonna go on my own.
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Like, that cracked me up so much.
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I just love that.
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And then he takes off and goes exploring on his own.
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I just love that scene, it just cracked me up.
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Well, best supporting character.
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We have to be the same on this one for sure.
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You think so?
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Maybe.
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I don't know.
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Uh I'm going
with Jonas or Jonas as is they uh they call him.
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He just again, he didn't get that much screen time, but when he did, he has some great dialogue, some great little fun quips, some really good banter.
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Uh yeah, I don't I don't know what else to say.
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I thought he was a pretty fun, supporting character, and again, we always say who deserved more screen time.
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I wanted a little bit more of Jonas in this movie.
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Same, that's why Pink Jonas.
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He was so funny and cool, and he was playing flashlight tag, that's kind of cool.
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Yeah, and and when uh Emily shows up, not even saying hi to her, but handing her, uh handing Marie, it's her character's name, a drink.
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Uh, I thought was funny.
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Right?
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He was played by Adam Bricks, so he was hilarious, offering a cup of cocoa after it was billed on the real Ryan Miller, unbeknownst to Jonas, was funny to me.
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Just like he was just comical, and some of those scenes, like not intentionally him being funny, but just the scenes that he were he was in, were just cracking me up.
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I really like that character.
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Well, our logic checks, here we go.
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Are we sure?
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So are we sure that a daughter would really give her mother a hard time for selling the inn when seconds earlier her mom says, I just want to sleep in for once?
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I mean, if your mom says that, but how do you how do you not just feel incredibly bad for like I understand?
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No, she starts giving her mom a hard time.
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I'm going, I don't think so.
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Um I think you'd be pretty uh sympathetic with your mom in that moment.
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Uh Renee, I spent two years working as a tour guide.
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Are we sure that somebody would put, you know, make somebody put on a suit to go to an early morning opera performance?
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I don't think so.
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Uh I don't think he would ever do that as a tour guide.
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You say, hey, maybe we can uh see the opera formance tonight instead if we're gonna get all dressed up.
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And my last one, are we sure that Ryan number two would come back after such a miserable stay?
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I mean, he doesn't like the inn, he doesn't like Marie, he doesn't like going on her tours, uh, his room flooded, pretty much wrecked everything he had.
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Are we really sure the guy's gonna come back?
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I don't think so.
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Yeah, and the Ryan number one, uh maybe this is just me.
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Like, are we sure he would give his Danish that called the spend spendur?
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Spendy hour?
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I don't know how to say it.
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It's a cheese Danish type thing, looking to the kids.
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He gave it to the kids, like they were hungry, and then like he gave it to them.
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Like, I'm sure that I would not.
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Like, you live here, go get your own thing.
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And then he gave them most of his pretzel.
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At least that pretzel was kind of big, so like, okay, you can still have some pretzel.
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I was like, no way, go get your own stuff, brats.
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But maybe I'm rough with the kids, I don't know.
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And are we sure that the mother would tell her to go tell Ryan how Marie tell Marie how she feels?
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I think a mom would be like, it's been a week, honey.
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Like, can you we be a little bit more realistic here?
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I don't know.
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I feel like I'm being cynical here, but you know, it's like I think a mom would kind of try to knock some sense into her, unless the mom's like, yeah, you know, love is love, which happens, you know, that's cool.
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You know, everyone is encouraging each the other to go for it.
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It's been a week.
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Am I skewer?
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That means crazy, by the way.
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I'm teaching you a uh Danish word.
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Skewer, S-Ko, S-K-O-R.
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Uh it's pronounced like skewer.
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That means crazy.
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So I think when everybody was encouraging the other one to go for it, I was like, that I would tell my friend, like, dude, calm down.
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Like, you are nuts.
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I like I did not get it.
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So uh would this lead couple last 12 months?
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I want to say yes, Renee, but in the end, I don't think so.
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There's a lot of hurdles here, just logistical hurdles, even though they really do care for one another.
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But I read the quickest an American get Danish residency is in four years.
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It takes four years.
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Often it takes more like eight years.
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Wow.
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Uh so that it's really tough for him to stay there in Denmark.
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Uh he's
from California, where I presume his family is as well.
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She seems to be a little bit of a globetrotter herself.
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You know, it was in Chicago.
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She got offered a promotion to London.
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I I know she's staying in Denmark now, but that is falling apart fast.
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I think she's gonna get up pretty gonna get fed up with uh having to take care of that thing unless you know they can spend a lot of money on repairs.
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It's a nice Hallmark world romance for Ne, but uh unfortunately I think that's all it is.
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I don't think they're gonna make it in this one.
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Just again, too many hurdles to overcome.
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Yeah, like to me, I just like I don't know about this one.
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They've only known each other for a week.
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That is not enough time to make that sort of decision.
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So I'm gonna go, like, I'm gonna say for the first time, instead of saying no, I'm just gonna say, I don't know.
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Like it can go either way, but really, really, I guess I'm gonna say no.
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Like, I don't know, leaning towards no.
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I don't think it's gonna last.
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It's just not enough time.
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You know, I like you know, I like to have the hallmark spirited in me sometimes, but maybe watching three Hallmark movies in a weekend has gotten me Hallmark spirited out.
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I have no idea if that's the case or not.
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But I was like, I'm getting a little cynical on this one.
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No, this this is one of these segments that we do that people have a lot of fun with, but we always keep it real, and you know, I think more often than not, you know, 75% of the time we're all absolutely, but if there is a reason we're you know we're doubting it for some reason, we always call it out.
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So, where we are the best, hands down, the missile tow meter.
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So the first one with the hotel in the background.
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I I gave a B to I thought the kiss was pretty good.
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The camera work was a little bit wonky.
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My big question is that hotel was kind of really shining kind of a bright white in the background.
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It was kind of turning me off a little bit.
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Why not put the awesome Christmas market in the background there?
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That that would have been the really cool shot.
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But again, I thought the kiss itself was pretty good, so I gave it a B.
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I'll lean on the overall power of the kiss.
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Final kiss, I gave a B I gave a B minus too.
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It was sweet, a little bit too short for my liking, but not bad.
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Um, overall, I'm in a generous mood.
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I'll give it an overall B.
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We the exact same thing.
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The first kiss was a nice kiss.
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Interesting yet confusing camera work for sure.
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It was unexpected.
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That kiss was a B.
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You know, maybe a B minus.
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But the last kiss was uh for me like a C, C plus.
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So overall, I give this a B, B minus on those kisses.
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They uh that first one could have been so much better, it's just the camera work was so confusing to me.
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Like I said, like you said, I think they could have done better by putting the market in the background, that would have been nicer.
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Who or what won the movie?
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So I think Denmark wins this movie.
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The Danish culture, uh the language that we heard, the authenticity.
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Uh, you know, you rarely in a Hallmark movie do you get really authentic stuff.
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Like if you're shooting in Philadelphia, you know, rarely do you get like really good Philly cheesesteaks because it's not shot in Philadelphia very often.
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Uh we mentioned Chicago this year for the Bears Love Story.
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We didn't really get good shots of authentic food.
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Uh I really think we got authentic Denmark.
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I think it really is something different and special when it's shot on location like this movie is.
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So Denmark, but Danish culture, uh shooting on location, that to me is what won this movie and kind of made this movie what it was.
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Yeah, for me the same location by far.
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It was really set the mood and tone of the movie.
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And I love learning about all the traditions in Denmark.
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I just thought that was interesting because I know nothing of Denmark besides those Danish cookies that come in, those little blue tins that eventually end up being a holder for my mom's like uh sewing kit stuff.
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Right?
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So I don't know aside from that, I know nothing about Danish culture.
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Uh I liked learning about that.
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There was a lot of traditional traditions, I want to
say.
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It really was an incredible location for Denmark for sure.
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Won that won that movie for me.
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Our overall movie rating, and for this, I'm gonna say, hopefully I pronounced this correctly.
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How many cups of glug?
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That's that red wine with all the stuff in it.
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How many cups of glug did this movie get for you?
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Yeah, the mold wine that you see at all the Christmas orchestra throughout Europe, the warm uh mold wine.
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As an overall movie, Renee, I this was very middle of the road for me.
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I was leaning 3.5 because that's just kind of my standard basic middle of the road average kind of movie.
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But because of the location, shot in the location, the great Danish culture we got, Amelia being able to speak the language, uh adding that uh authenticity to it, uh the beautiful scenery all throughout Copenhagen.
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I'm bumping it up to a 3.75.
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I I think that's the right uh score for this movie.
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Like I say, I think it was just a very standard movie, but you add in all that stuff, and I learned a ton about Danish culture that I didn't know before.
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So 3.75 glugs from me.
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Yeah, I was right with you.
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Like I I was you know back and forth too.
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First I was like 3.25, 3.5.
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I didn't get up as high as 3.75.
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I settled on 3.5 glugs for this movie, and I I I I wanted to like it more because I like the actress and I like the setting, but I have to be honest, so 3.5 glugs is uh to me is a kind of a standard average rating, and that's where I settled on.
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Yeah, and I think we both kind of give it a bump just because of all the the Danish stuff being so authentic, like it was.
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Yeah, it was nice.
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Yep.
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Well, this was a nice quick and easy review.
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It definitely is an easy watch, so I mean, watch it if you get a chance to, you will enjoy it.
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And if you've never been to Denmark and I'm thinking about it, you'll see a nice culture there for sure.
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Yeah, I know a lot of people, my wife and I keep talking about going back and doing the European Christmas markets and experiencing Europe around Christmas time.
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Uh, something we want to do in the next few years.
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And if that is kind of a dream of yours or on your bucket list or your wish list, I mean definitely watch this movie because you really get a good feel uh of Denmark and they really do a good job of showing what it's like around Christmas time and all the traditions and in the hoah and everything else uh there in Scandinavia.
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So thank you everyone for listening.
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We really appreciate your time.
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Again, I can't thank you enough for listening.
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And we're gonna leave you with oh, I wish I would have learned how to say this in Danish.
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For the love of Hallmark.
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Oh, Renee, we blew, we really should have looked up how to say for the love of Hallmark Danish.
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But yes, uh uh a thousand hoogas and for the love of hallmark.