Halloween 5 on AMC

[Uncle Peter]

What happened to this Channel? It was Movie Classics, now it's the same old Movies aired over and over again. Halloween 5 airs it seems like on a daily basis and to top that off, that ain't no Classic.:(

[thomasmaly]

American Movie Channel has become "A Motley Collection".

[jrbdmb]

AMC has now become just another crap movie channel. With TNT, TBS, and all the HBOs / Showtimes / Encores, do we really need another channel showing 80's and 90's movies?

http://www.welcometosilentmovies.com/news/newsarchive/amc.htm

[Bub2001]

give your feedback to amc at
http://amcfeedback.com/
btw, amc is owned by rainbow media which started the awful MM usa to replace the canadian feed of Much Music, they also own IFC which I expect them to screw up next.

[jrjcd]

oh god-no...the same people who own amc also own ifc??????

now i am depressed....

i guess this means IFC will eventually morph into bravo....

[jrjcd]

as far as halloween3,4,5,et all goes, the reason is the season(tho they seem to have forgotten about ALL the other good horror films they could screw up over three days!!!)

last year, they had roger corman host their halloween horror weekend and it was pretty cool....too bad they have decided to become whores for money now...

[TopCat99]

I miss the old AMC, too. And they did a ___ of a censoring job on Halloween 5 ;)

But seriously, what happened to the good ol' days of watching Bringing Up Baby without commercial interruption in glorious Technicolor? And those zany Popular Science clips between movies? Or Unusual Occupations? Or the news? *sigh*

Regarding the Halloween flicks, it seems they took what they used to do with Planet of the Apes in Septembers and just compressed it all into three days for Halloween. Like a "damn, dirty ape," AMC is becoming a clone of all the other movie stations out there, like jrbdmb said.

[zztzed]

Originally posted by Bub2001
btw, amc is owned by rainbow media which started the awful MM usa to replace the canadian feed of Much Music [...]
The Canadian MuchMusic feed, being (duh) Canadian in origin, would be constrained by Canada's CanCon laws (http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/cultural/issues/cancon.htm), which requires that 60% of the content aired by Canadian television broadcasters be Canadian in origin. Do you really want to be subjected to a bunch of crappy Canadian bands?

Yes, I realize that there are some good Canadian musicians. Unfortunately, for every Our Lady Peace or Rush or Tragically Hip there's a Celine Dion or Avril Lavigne or k.d. lang.

Personally, I think the paid programming from 8am to 11am and borders on the top and bottom of the screen on MMUSA are a small price to pay to avoid being subjected to mediocre Canadian musicians.

And besides, the chick who hosts Uranium on MMUSA is really hot. :p

[SMN]

Originally posted by zztzed

The Canadian MuchMusic feed, being (duh) Canadian in origin, would be constrained by Canada's CanCon laws (http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/cultural/issues/cancon.htm), which requires that 60% of the content aired by Canadian television broadcasters be Canadian in origin. Do you really want to be subjected to a bunch of crappy Canadian bands?



Personally, I think the paid programming from 8am to 11am and borders on the top and bottom of the screen on MMUSA are a small price to pay to avoid being subjected to mediocre Canadian musicians.

And besides, the chick who hosts Uranium on MMUSA is really hot. :p

Actually the CRTC regulations only state that broadcasters have to have 35% Canadian content. Except for the CBC, most broadcasters usually just meet the medium. If there was a 60% requirement, the private networks like CTV and Global couldn't run as much American programming in primetime as they do.

MMUSA plays the same 20 videos over and over with little variety. It seems like most of the music they play has to come from bands that either rip off Limp Bizkit or Blink 182. Granted, it may not be the boy bands, but there is so little variety and the increased commercial time makes the channel unwatchable. And looks aside, Juliya has the brain the size of a walnut. I would rather have Ed the Sock than that brain dead person.

[zztzed]

Originally posted by SMN
Actually the CRTC regulations only state that broadcasters have to have 35% Canadian content. Except for the CBC, most broadcasters usually just meet the medium. If there was a 60% requirement, the private networks like CTV and Global couldn't run as much American programming in primetime as they do.
Hmm. The page I linked says "Private television licensees must achieve a yearly Canadian content level of at least 60 per cent overall, measured over the course of the entire broadcast day, and at least fifty per cent between 6 p.m. and midnight." Although later on in the page it says that pay-TV/specialty/PPV channels have different requirements, and I suppose Much would fall in that category. *shrug* I'm hundreds of miles south of the Canadian border, much too far to actually be concerned with Canadian laws. :p


MMUSA plays the same 20 videos over and over with little variety. It seems like most of the music they play has to come from bands that either rip off Limp Bizkit or Blink 182. Granted, it may not be the boy bands, but there is so little variety and the increased commercial time makes the channel unwatchable. And looks aside, Juliya has the brain the size of a walnut. I would rather have Ed the Sock than that brain dead person.
I actually don't watch MMUSA that much, although I have watched long enough to notice the lack of variety you talk about. It seems like they only ever play three genres: nu-metal, watered-down pop-punk, or hip-hop. Of course, in this age of decreased attention spans, I doubt they expect most people to watch long enough to notice the repetition. :rolleyes: (I actually like nu-metal, but it seems like all they ever play is Linkin Park and Taproot. Gets a little old after a while...)

[gcutler]

So now what is the body count on channels that have left their original Mission Statement to the wind.

Sci-Fi (Airing John Edwards, and dumping Farscape)
TechTV (minimal real tech, now lots of Anime and Sci-Fi)
AMC (If the Statute Of Limitations has passed it, its now considered a classic)
TNN (The Nashville/National/aNnoyinng Black Bar Network, ST:TNG has it's new home)