# HBO Movie choices **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388 "2002-06-16T18:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/1 "2002-06-16T18:57:34Z")
I can’t stand it anymore!!! I turn off the regular channels to the premium channels that my family pays for only to find HBO playing A) a good movie that I havent seen lately (rare) B) the same good movie as mentioned in A, but I saw it earlier today or perhaps yesterday. C) Some crappy, little known film which are all stupid Someone shoot the HBO head of scheduling! ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/2 "2002-06-17T15:09:41Z")
Hasn’t HBO been doing this since the 80s? Showing the same ‘headliner’ flick over and over and over and over and over and over again. Throw in some random filler then lots of T and A after 11pm? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/3 "2002-06-17T15:46:26Z")
There ya go. Shoot someone instead of registering your displeasure by changing services. Or writing a letter. Asshole. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/4 "2002-06-18T12:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > lots of T and A after 11pm No, that’s Skinemax. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/5 "2002-06-18T14:23:33Z")
No its HBO too, trust me. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/6 "2002-06-18T14:36:56Z")
> [@](#): > > There ya go. Shoot someone instead of registering your displeasure by changing services. Or writing a letter. You keep up this anti-Second Amendment rights activism, **Uncle Beer** , you’re going to have to answer to Moses! Re: the OP: You guys need to get digital cable. 12 screens of HBO, 10 screens of Showtime, 12, screens of Starz, and 8 screens each of Encore and Cinemax, not to mention AMC and TCM. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/7 "2002-06-19T03:09:09Z")
You don;t know bad. For a good 2 years back in the late 1980’s, no matter what time of day or night I turned on TBS, the movie “The Final Countdown” was on. Nice enough movie. tells a halfway decent, if utterly unbelievable story. But it was on TBS **all the fucking time.** My firend actually kept track for 3 months over the summer----it was shown 78 times. **78 TIMES!!!** ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/8 "2002-06-19T13:40:59Z")
I can remember when TBS was so short of programming they’d rerun the Braves games at like 2:00 a.m. Somedays I wish they hadn’t stopped doing that. And speaking of the same show being on all the time, when did **fx** become **The M_A_S\*H Channel**? ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/9 "2002-06-19T21:06:40Z")
Cast Away seems like it’s on all the time now. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/10 "2002-06-19T22:34:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\* > Re: the OP: You guys need to get digital cable. 12 screens of HBO, 10 screens of Showtime, 12, screens of Starz, and 8 screens each of Encore and Cinemax, not to mention AMC and TCM. \*\* All **42 screens** showing the same ‘headliner’ flick over and over and over and over and over and over again. Throw in some random filler then lots of T and A after 11pm? _[Apologies to **CRorex**]_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/11 "2002-06-20T01:15:27Z")
_gasp_ Is our very own **Uncle Beer** turning to the GUN CONTROL crowd? I don’t believe it! 😃 _ducks and runs_ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/12 "2002-06-20T02:06:08Z")
Now, now, now be fair to **FX** —it’s also the Buffy Channel. Though what makes me sad about HBO is that it used to have a lot more T&A–that’s why I got it when I bought cable again! Now we have the occasional Real Sex and Taxi Confessions, but that’s about it. ☹ I’m going to have to pay for the extra Skinemax I see. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/13 "2002-06-20T08:15:24Z")
I watched _Virtuousity_ about 6 times when it was doing it’s tun on HBO or Cinemax or whatever. If you like a movie well enough, it’s not a bad “feature” that they keep replaying it. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/14 "2002-06-21T05:29:54Z")
I have to concur with **Eternal**. I’m one of those weird people that can watch a movie twice in the same day and not care. It’s kinda cool being able to do so without renting or paying for it. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-movie-choices/114388/15 "2002-06-21T07:06:18Z")
This thread reminds me of the fact that AMC seems to show _Force 10 from Navarone_ every other week. Not that I mind, really. I like that film. But not that much.