In a previous post..Jules32 wrote: I have a complaint to register regarding the AMC channel - instead of squeezing the end credits to make room for commercials for the next movie, how about staying true to your movie fans who have a compulsive need to read the credits, and show them full-screen to the end? Who's with me on this one? Thank goodness for IMDb to get us through! _______________________________
I'm with you..I'm with you. AMC starting this obnoxious behavior some time ago and it is disgraceful. Not only is it loud and abusive to the ear, but it totally ruins whatever mood a film has meticulously created.
I'm like you. I not only want to read the credits, but to hear the music which is always integral to enjoying a movie. This is totally uncalled for since AMC does more self promotion than all the other cable networks combined.
This is one reason that..other than films I can view nowhere else, I have pretty much given up on them. Now that I have a new cable system, I stay with Turner Classic Movies (TMC) where they present classic films you can see nowhere else, rather than the same top 40 that AMC endlessly presents..and they are all commercial and promotion free with all the music and credits intact all the time.
As for "The Incident" a film I saw in a theater when it first was released, it is overwrought most of the time. It would have been far more effective if the hoodlums had been subtly menacing. Instead, they are presented as the 2,000 lb. elephants in the room. They're easy to keep track of since you can't miss them.
It's a dirty gritty and unpleasant little film but it does have its moments. Although badly dated, especially in its treatment of gays, women and blacks, its depiction of criminals preying on innocent people is as relevant today, sadly, as it was in the sixties.
Oh..how we might long for the days when all we had to worry about in the subway, was some random attack by hoodlums, instead of murderous attacks by suicide bombers.
Times do not necessarily change for the better.
I'm with you..I'm with you. AMC starting this obnoxious behavior some time ago and it is disgraceful. Not only is it loud and abusive to the ear, but it totally ruins whatever mood a film has meticulously created.
I'm like you. I not only want to read the credits, but to hear the music which is always integral to enjoying a movie. This is totally uncalled for since AMC does more self promotion than all the other cable networks combined.
This is one reason that..other than films I can view nowhere else, I have pretty much given up on them. Now that I have a new cable system, I stay with Turner Classic Movies (TMC) where they present classic films you can see nowhere else, rather than the same top 40 that AMC endlessly presents..and they are all commercial and promotion free with all the music and credits intact all the time.
As for "The Incident" a film I saw in a theater when it first was released, it is overwrought most of the time. It would have been far more effective if the hoodlums had been subtly menacing. Instead, they are presented as the 2,000 lb. elephants in the room. They're easy to keep track of since you can't miss them.
It's a dirty gritty and unpleasant little film but it does have its moments. Although badly dated, especially in its treatment of gays, women and blacks, its depiction of criminals preying on innocent people is as relevant today, sadly, as it was in the sixties.
Oh..how we might long for the days when all we had to worry about in the subway, was some random attack by hoodlums, instead of murderous attacks by suicide bombers.
Times do not necessarily change for the better.