Posted on 02/23/2024 6:35:01 AM PST by SJackson
Embarrassed to admit to same.
I love Masters of the Air, but as soon as the flak stops, and you know the Luftwaffe fighters are coming...my wife rolls into a ball on the couch trying to mute the fighting, or just leaves the room. She can’t stand it, but I tell her if she’s that wound up, imagine being on one of the crews.
I remember when AMC, IFC and Sundance had great movies from around the world. Uncut and no commercials. Commercials were between the movies. I still miss Samurai Saturdays on IFC.
Now all are commercial with old TV shows I would not watch when they were originally on TV.
Only TV channels worth watching now are TCM and FOX movies, and TCM is now showing some movies I saw on HBO just a few years ago. The best movies on FOX are late at night but they seem to show the same ones over and over and over....
Others that broadcast old movies take up 2 1/2 hours of air time to show a 1 1/2 hour movie. And my favorite DVD player has bit the dust.
I spend 90% of my time on YouTube. I’m paying the $18/mo to get rid of the ads, which is actually great (and I hate subscriptions). I canceled Netflix yesterday, so I now only have Prime. YouTube is giving me all I need. If I want to see the Daytona 500, I simply watch it the next morning ... and usually only the highlights which takes 20 minutes. I did the same for football.
“Home Improvement”. Every episode of its first season is hilarious.
That show demonstrated to their white audiences that black families and characters were not much different than them. IMHO it was the one of the few portals other than music that many whites were able to “see” blacks and softened resistance to the civil rights movement in the 1950s and early 1960s
Yes it’s been great for the races and the nascar stream omits the network commercials and the announcers say nothing lol all the imsa and world sports car racing is there plus the Australian super cars
Dropped cable (Cox) a while back when a new internet provider came into the area. Bought me an antenna and now mostly watch broadcast TV.
MeTV, H&I, Grit, Cozi and more. Old reruns - the best shows.
Subscriptions to Motortrend and Discovery+. I like car shows and wife loves watching Lt. Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter.
Absolutely agree!
I watched an 1957 “B” movie “Zero Hour!” and was amazed by how refreshing it was. No “wokeness” the hero was a white male Canadian WWII veteran.
I’ve been enjoying those too! Reactions to “More Than a Feeling” by Boston, and British reactions to the Oversimplified American Revolution. Really fun to watch!
What Apple did to “Foundation” should have been a criminal offense.
Makes you wonder if anyone even bothered to read the book
just started watching “The Streets of San Francisco”
it looks so clean
Brit Box:
https://www.britbox.com/us/
Been watching Brit Box for almost a year, great shows. Seems the plots are a little more challenging than US shows.
-PJ
the actor is also more faithful to the books
STILL DO EVERY AM & EVERY PM on weekdays.
Is Kanopy only educational films or do they have movies? What about old television programs?
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