# Holy Crap! Whats Up with AMC?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572 "2005-04-15T23:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/1 "2005-04-15T23:36:57Z")
They must have showed John Wayne’s 'THE GREEN BERETS" a few HUNDRED times so far (this month). What’s the problem? have they run out of movies? I used to love AMC-it had no commercials, and showed classic movies. Now its freakin awful! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/2 "2005-04-16T00:31:52Z")
Didn’t you know? It’s been at least five years since AMC started its steady decline as a network. Will somebody please post the links to all the previous SDMB threads on this subject? I don’t have time to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/3 "2005-04-16T14:31:21Z")
Well, five hundred films they did assay. But only had the fee for _The Green Berets_. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/4 "2005-04-16T22:35:50Z")
Yea, I realize that AMC has really gone downhill-but why the continuous screening of these turd films? The other night they had nothing but old Claude Van Damme flicks on-which everybody has seen a jillion times. As I say, I could take a few commercials…but not this constant recycling of movie crap. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/5 "2005-04-17T13:33:31Z")
AMC has been brain dead for several years. Turner Classic Movies rocks. (At least what they say; I can’t get it.) ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/6 "2005-04-17T13:42:06Z")
I gave up on them immediately after their change of ownership/vision whichever it was. I wrote them a letter telling them so and except for the occaisional Saturday Western that I don’t have I don’t even check to see what they’re showing. Before the switch, I’d usually check there first if I were looking for a movie to watch. Someone needs to buy them a vowel. ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Silj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/7 "2006-04-06T14:42:38Z")
AMC is the biggest piece of shit cable station there is. What makes it even worse is they _used_ to be damn close to TCM. How the fuck can you claim to be “TV for movie people” when you edit for content and show commercials for Chrissakes? And some the upcoming “classics” this month are: Godfather 3 Halloween 5 Caveman’s Valentine When a Man Loves a Woman Two Weeks Notice. AMC can’t hold TCM’s jock. There could be a movie that I have been dying to see for years, if AMC was showing it I would not watch. Do they not know that real film fans will NOT watch edited movies, or movies with commercials, let alone both? Don’t get me started on AMC. ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Silj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/8 "2006-04-06T14:51:43Z")
Did NOT mean to restart a year old thread, but I got carried away… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/9 "2006-04-06T15:22:27Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Yea, I realize that AMC has really gone downhill-but why the continuous screening of these turd films? The other night they had nothing but old Claude Van Damme flicks on-which everybody has seen a jillion times. > As I say, I could take a few commercials…but not this constant recycling of movie crap. I don’t want to continue this zombie thread too long, but it has to be said: When AMC made the change to show crap films, its ratings went _up_. Simple as that. More people like modern crap films in color than do older good films in b&w. It will just get worse in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/10 "2006-04-06T15:35:11Z")
I was told that another factor in AMC’s decline was the explosion of cable channels. The corporations that used to be happy to get a few bucks out of AMC licensing them to show their old movies now have channels of their own. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/11 "2006-04-06T15:51:21Z")
AMC is showing \*\*[Hu$tle](http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/hustle/) \*\*, so they aren’t all crap. But I don’t watch them otherwise. OTOH, I’ll tune in to TCM whenever I have a free moment. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/12 "2006-04-06T16:26:23Z")
AMC was never the best movie channel but it was a good outlet for some older things that for whatever reason TCM hadn’t hoovered up yet. 20th Century Fox movies seemed to be the staple. Of course now Fox has its own movie channel. AMC was always a reliable source for my _The Prince and the Showgirl_ fix, since they seemed to show it about every three days. AMC is now only good for the occasional series or special but is absolutely useless for movies. I still recall with bitterness my notice of the start of AMC’s total corruption. Watching _Fright Night_, they blanked out the word “shit.” That was the first content edit I noted, before they were actually interrupting the movies for commercials. Editing for content was enough to put me off AMC for movies but commercial interruptions are simply intolerable. > [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > When AMC made the change to show crap films, its ratings went up. Simple as that. More people like modern crap films in color than do older good films in b&w. People are fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-whats-up-with-amc/299572/13 "2006-04-06T16:29:19Z")
Next week on AMC, the Pauley Shore & Rob Schneider film festival!