Comments on: AMC: What makes a movie a ‘classic’?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:12 +0000

Amc is no longer on my favorites list,too many commercials and promos of their on shows.Painfull to watch if your a classic movie buff.TCM is far better and one of my favorites.

By: garry

garry — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:24:38 +0000

AMC sucks to block out commercials I have a mute button on my remote….People are smart these days…..Simple just turn AMC off….I called my cable company and had then block out that useless channel…..its all garbage….I shake my head how crap movie channels like AMC stay in business…they can take their commercials and all their 1-800 commercials and shove up their porr little money hungry butts….they wont last long guys

By: Al

Al — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:18:00 +0000

I agree that AMC is worthless as a movie station. I just turned off “VonRyan’s Express” which will be the last movie I will ever try to watch on this station. 117 minutes of movie stretched into a 180 time period. Stations used to find suitable places for commercials, such as scene changes. Now it seems they purposefully slap their numerous advertisements in the middle of action scenes and important parts of the movie. The commercial breaks are frequent and they are TWICE the volume. When the movie finally DOES come back, all the superimposed ads pop up over the movie. I really do not want to see the Mad Man or Breaking Bad idiots pop up over a World War II battle scene. So much for all the work these film masters did to create ambience and setting a mood in their movies, when we instead see all the crap that pops up all over the screen. Let’s all watch TCM, instead and let AMC loose their advertisers! Maybe THEN they will pay attention to their customers!

By: JT

JT — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:54:03 +0000

AMC is a worthles cable channel. They show the same movies for months at a time. Tonight the Hunt For Red October is on. This must have been on 25 times in the last 3 months. Also tonight Roadhouse is on . Again this stupid movie has been shown 25 times at least.

By: Allen L Hueber

Allen L Hueber — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:10:38 +0000

I have stopped watching movies on AMC for most of the same reasons mentioned on your site. However, the clincher for me was when they blocked movies from recording to DVD. I normally would rather record a movie and watch it by skipping through commercial(chapter button). After they started blocking movies I haven’t even considered checking what showing on AMC.

By: Lynda V.E.

Lynda V.E. — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:57:59 +0000

I too can no longer watch AMC because the commercials and edited movies. AMC used to have quality films, uncut, without commercials from the golden age of movies. Now we only have TCM to look to for the true classics. Not to say that there aren’t movies from the 1960’s to the present that aren’t “classic,” but we already have countless networks airing them such as TBS, USA, etc. and also a few local channels. AMC is now no different from them. Shame on you AMC for fixing something that wasn’t broken – your format!

By: monstermash

monstermash — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:43:49 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one who refuses to watch the horrible AMC channel anymore. They play the same movies over and over and over (not even ‘classics’), they play straight to DVD movies (Pinata Island, anyone?) and somewhere Orson Welles is spinning in his grave at how loosely the term ‘classics’ is used in regards to film. And how about commercials ever 12 minutes that last for 8 minutes? If you can watch a movie on AMC all the way through, you’re a better person than I am. I have blocked this channel out on my TV because I would (about every 2 months) see a movie I wanted to watch and then I’d try to watch it and give up because of the commercials. Watching this station is REALLY painful if you’re a fan of movies. What started out as a good idea became one of the more horrible channels on TV. TONIGHT: Cammando! Tommorrow morning: Commando! Tomorrow night: Commando! And so on and so on for a few months.
If Commando qualifies as ‘classic,’ I’ll eat my shoes.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:53:19 +0000

I was a LOYAL AMC Fan from their first day UNTIL they Ceased to be Commercial Free. They should change their name. They edit movies and have commercials like the major networks. Thank GOD For TCM (TurnerClassicMovies) who remains the ONLY Channel with classics and they are NEVER EDITED and NEVER ANY COMMERCIALS. Shame on AMC.

By: ron

ron — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:17:38 +0000

Greetings- AMC puts the “ick” in classics with toooo many commercials! I’m surprised the public doesn’t flood the FCC with demands to regulate less commercials like europe does. Remember when cable meant no commercials?

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