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The Stooges are back on AMC
- Thread starter TroyG
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I just tuned in and they are NOT commercial free!
Just as I feared ..... NOT commercial free but is loaded with breaks that are longer than the sements. Very hard to watch -plus alot of pop ups. PHOOEY! AMC needs a big poke in the eyes.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo nyuk-nyk-nyuk.
No, that would be too expensive.
No, that would be too expensive.
AMC (and before, SPIKE) have made the Stooges unwatchable with all the long interuptions and pop ups. Then they will blame the failure to capture an audience of being in black & white or young people are not interested. I thought Spike would be the perfect place to air the Stooges until I tried watching them a couple times. Where are the "artists" in the business such as Martin Scorsese complaining how AMC and the others destroy the flow and art of the moves they show. They killed colorizing and made it so watching a letterboxed film impossible on a small screen TV. How about going after these channels that destroy the integrity of the fims they show? Yes, I do consider the Stooges as "art". Maybe they should be shown on PBS.
Some of the Three Stooges shorts are on Hulu. They have ads, but they're only 30 seconds long.
therealjm12 said:
Very well put and I totally agree. Color pop-ups, inappropriate/awkward spot breaks hacked into the middle of a short and editing that was never meant to be all detract from the Stooge "experience." Our local Stooge station in Chicago is very respectful of the franchise and shows the entire short unedited. If there are edits, the host will usually point out that it was done by the studio or by the entity that owns the rights. Hacking up these shorts does annoy me after a while and I'll tend not to watch for as long a period.
But this is a problem when clueless programmers schedule a classic movie or even. I noticed that NBC toned down the multicolor bugs, pop ups and on-screen promos this year that cluttered previous years' showings of It's A Wonderful Life. Kudos to them for that, though there are still annoying little edits here and there to make time for more ads.
At first, when reading the headline of this post, I thought this topic was going to be about Congressional leaders.
AMC actually covered Lucille Ball's name with a pop up in the opening credits of the short she was in today. Tonight (New Years Eve) I am going to the Dyden Theatre at the Eastman House in Rochester. I'll be watching the real Three Stooges uninterrupted on the big screen along with The Marx Brother's "A Night at the Opera. Sorry all you Stoogemaniacs and Marxists can't join me.
Troy Goodwin said:
They are; from 8PM-1AM. I'm actually watching it now. I've always counted on TV38 for the Stooges. They used to be on every Sunday, however, they replaced it recently. What I like is there is hardly a TV38 bug on the bottom of the screen. They have one, but it's tiny and most of the time it's never there anyway. I recieve WSBK through DISH Network. Despite the fact they air mostly syndicated programming found elsewhere, it's still a neat little station.
I wish KTLA would carry the Three Stooges again, especially during their marathons...for many years, they aired a hour of the Stooges every weekend afternoon at 12 until around late '90s. Last time they aired here in L.A., it was the re-packaged syndication version (on KCAL), with one short with commercial breaks and little useless tidbits.
I wonder why TCM doesn't show the "Three Stooges" in between their movies. It would be a perfect outlit for them, uncut and commercial free (with no stupid pop-ups)
This sounds like what I watched on weekends on Charlotte's UPN station in 1999. I think there were two shorts, and there was a trivia question, maybe two.ShawnHill1 said:
They also showed us that Curly appeared, as a train passenger with hair, after his health had forced him to stop performing regularly.
notalkallstatic said:
I'd like to see that happen, but TCM would probably do it like they've done with the Hal Roach shorts. They got an exclusive 40 year contract to the shorts but are using them very little now except for occasional Laurel and Hardy nights or weekends.
I've always thought TCM should make Saturday and/or Sunday mornings the time for classic cartoons, shorts, and serials. They had Cartoon Alley a few years back but it was dropped when the Turner networks weren't carrying Looney Tunes and have had serials occasionally, but it's sporadic at best.
therealjm12 said:
It seems that we've come to a point where it's no longer commercials interrupting programming, but programming interrupting commercials. And those incessant pop-ups is just like the jerk in back of you talking at a movie theater -- completely ruins the experience. If this is the way they treat their programs, they deserve to be dropped when renegotiation time comes again -- it's not worth the money to continue carrying what could be perceived as a shoddy product.
therealjm12 said:
They couldn't even wait until the credits are over when the pop-ups begin? Especially when a soon-to-be-big-star makes her appearance?
landtuna said:
Actually, you do -- as part of the cable bill for the tier it's in.
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