Man, I guess the economy has killed the Programming Department over at AMC.
I’ve noticed lately that they repeat movies as often as possible. I think they’ve showed Pulp Fiction at least six times this month so far.
They have also developed the habit of streeeetttttchhhinnnggg movies to play longer, presumably to get more advertising money. I can sort of see that, but when The Shining takes three and a half hours? :dubious:
To make matters worse, they’ll be showing *Rambo I *and Rambo IIevery day next week.
…or has it always been this way and I’ve never noticed? Did they put all their money on Breaking Bad?
Also when they started bowdlerizing nude scenes and swear words (though bloody, hacked up bodies of little children are fine, of course). Or have they always done that? I don’t remember.
When Jack Nicholson goes into the room and there’s a naked (but blurred) woman in the bathtub, I briefly forgot I was watching “family” TV and thought the blurring was a special effect.
My understanding is that’s the problem. Ted Turner (or some corporate entity backed by him) bought the rights to several studios worth of movies to create the channel leaving AMC to struggle with the definition of classic.
Please don’t ask for a cite. All I can give you is my mom’s phone number.
Oakminster, my fist car was a '71 Gremlin. I had a .5 second flash of thinking the same thing.
All I can do is agree with the OP. I remember long ago, when AMC was great and my cable provider didn’t carry it, and I’d look in TV Guide every week and drool over the movies I was missing. Then they started carrying it and I was in heaven. Then TCM came around and it was double heaven. Then AMC went to shit and who misses them? Not I. I can’t remember the last movie I watched there. No class, no love for movies. Never thought I’d say it, but thank you, Ted Turner.
To be fair, AMC didn’t go downhill. They changed their format.
It wasn’t a case of, “Hey, they’re playing all these B&W classic films, what’s Predator doing here??” It was a case of a complete change in programming.
In fact, AMC is no longer an acronym-- that’s just their name now.
It’s been at least since 1998-99. Mr K and I used to get together on Fridays for date night, when they showed awesome 1950s-60s scifi/horror movies. In fact, when we were having issues with the placement of the dish (it had gotten just a little knocked out of alignment, so even though we were getting a strong signal it was causing channels like AMC to ‘break up’), I called and told them they needed to send a repair person out that day else they would be responsible for our divorce.
You know, I understand the concept of programming changes, but a little warning would’ve been nice. It seemed to change literally overnight, which is… annoying. And yeah, it sucks now. I tried watching The Shining the other night and had to turn it off in disgust.
