Nemesis on AMC

[Lord Garth]

I watched 20 minutes of it. The second time I've ever seen the movie.

The one-liners were really forced and it seemed like Patrick Stewart was laying his performance on really thick. My favorite part was the beginning in the Romulan Senate. B-4 was just -- yeah. I'd completely forgotten about his dialogue.

None of this was probably helped by the fact that I'm currently suffering from caffine withdrawl. Intentional, unfortunately, since I've committed myself to breaking the habit.

I don't hate the movie, I just think it's stupid.

 

[gastrof]

AMC is like the Holy Roman Empire: they show stuff that isn't American, isn't a movie and certainly isn' classic. Sometimes it fails on all three counts.

Just a decade ago, AMC was the best bargain on cable TV. It was free or "basic" on most systems, and really did show stuff uninterrupted and unedited.

But it turned into garbage almost all at once.

The problem is Turner Classic Movies bought up the rights to so many films, it left AMC with little to carry it (or for it to be carried by).

Of course, TCM is now (on our cable system) on the "higher tier" and not part of basic any more.

 

[darkshadow0001]

Um AMC is not American Movie Classics anymore. They changed their name about three years ago to just AMC. The letters no longer stand for anything.

Oh and I thought these movies were classics

 

[Lord Garth]

I don't know what periods were the focus of AMC before -- I assume '70s and earlier -- but maybe they could've changed what AMC stood for to American Modern Classics. Play movies from 1975 or later that are three stars or more.

 

[cardinal biggles]

To be fair, not all the movies they show are crap. But the large number of crap films, plus the fact that they generally show them in pan & scan, plus the fact that they show the "edited for network TV versions," plus all the commercials... it has to be a really good movie that I don't already own on DVD for me to turn them on anymore.

 

[ClayinCA]

I might be mistaken, but I think that if "AMC" stands for anything at all nowadays, it's "American Movie Channel."

All of the above criticisms are on point; nonetheless, as far as I'm concerned, AMC can run tape loops of barking dogs and crying babies as long as they keep renewing Mad Men...

True. Oh, so very, very, extremely and thoroughly true.

 

[cooleddie74]

AMC.

Where we promise to respect the filmmaker's integrity...

with as few Toyota commercials as humanly possible.(TM)

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^ LOL!

 

[xoEJox]

Turner Classic Movies is, indeed, where it's at. At least as far as the more basic channels, which it still is in my city.

w00t.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I might be mistaken, but I think that if "AMC" stands for anything at all nowadays, it's "American Movie Channel."

All of the above criticisms are on point; nonetheless, as far as I'm concerned, AMC can run tape loops of barking dogs and crying babies as long as they keep renewing Mad Men...

True. Oh, so very, very, extremely and thoroughly true.

Agreed--it's the best thing on tv right now, or at least until Galactica wraps up.

 

[cooleddie74]

AMC used to be a lot better before all the crass commercial breaks and insistence that movies like "Black Dog" are classics. I've seen higher quality in the crack of my ass after a burrito.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Warning for ruining my dinner with disturbing mental images. Comments to Taco Bell.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Seconded...

 

[cooleddie74]

Warning for ruining my dinner with disturbing mental images. Comments to Taco Bell.

And yet NOBODY blames Nemesis. How odd.

 

[Cali]

They showed Nemesis this afternoon on one of the freeview channels and it's not quite as awful as you lot make it out to be.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I know. It's worse.

 

[cooleddie74]

It's not PHANTOM MENACE disappointing. But after a four year wait and all the awesome rumors preceding its completion and release we deserved a lot better.

 

[Captain59]

So basically AMC is now a cable movie channel? They might as well take a three-hour block and show Spock's Brain three times and call that a movie.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wish AMC would get the rights to the other nine films as well. Why just NEMESIS? Unless because its arguably the most unpopular and unsuccessful since TFF in '89 it was the easiest and cheapest to acquire the rights to.

 

[Cali]

So basically AMC is now a cable movie channel? They might as well take a three-hour block and show Spock's Brain three times and call that a movie.

No one should be subjected to that!