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dolarhyde:
The fact that Halloween 5 is now playing on AMC as an "American classic" shows how much of a joke this once-great station is now.
AMC used to live up to its billing by showing true classics uncut and letterboxed and with no commercials.
Now you'd have to look long and hard for a real "classic" to air on AMC (unless Tom Hanks' Dragnet is your idea of a "classic"), everything (with rare exception) is shown pan-and-scan, films are edited for content and commercials run rampant (none more obnoxious than AMC's own in-house promos which features "movie fans" talking as though every film buff is a vapid devotee of mainstream cinema). |
First off, they've got a Halloween theme going for Halloween. It's not like they're gonna play Halloween 5 any other time of the year.
As for letterbox, sometimes they'll show fullscreen in primetime, then show the movie later that night in letterbox. Maybe not with Halloween 5, but you know what I mean.
Yeah, there are more commercials lately. And they're referring to the channel as the "new" AMC. Maybe they changed ownership or management. Maybe they weren't making enough cash and need the ads to stay afloat.
The latest movies they've added to their library have been kind of hodgepodge, too. The Predator movies, Dragnet and some others could hardly be called classics. Their inclusion, and others from the 80s, reflects the shift in the target audience, however. As time goes by, the era of classic movies for their audience changes, too. They're going for a younger demo that thinks of 80s movies as old, and has fond childhood memories of them.
The problem is that more recent movies tend to have more violence, sex, and language. AMC doesn't need to cut Casablanca for a basic cable audience, but Halloween 2 can't go out as is.
At least the "movie fan" commercials aren't as annoying as the "drama" commercials over on TNT. Those make me want to yell at the screen.
