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"Movies on TV - my pet hates"

Television channels pay huge amounts for films these days, but you wonder if they really care about the things they’ve bought once the big licence has been handed over. The treatment that channels actually give to the movies that they show belittles the amount of effort they put in to actually advertising it (especially if it is a really new blockbuster).

At the moment my pet hates are many and all channels are guilty as charged, some being more guilty that others. Okay, I know some of the stuff I’m complaining about can’t be helped, but it still gets on my nerves and is probably the reason that I still buy DVDs.

Adverts
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Fine, I understand that ITV and Channel 4 are funded by the advertising, but surely major films don’t deserved to be chopped up into bite sized chunks, often stopping the action at key moments and spoiling the whole mood of the film. Yes, you can go and get coffee or go for a toilet break, but it really doesn’t replace the flow of the narrative. Sky are even worse, breaks seemingly every 40 seconds (well, on some channels anyway.)

Credit Cutting
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Grr, if you’ve just spent a lot of money on a film and are willing to show the whole lot (admittedly broken up by adverts) why the hell do you have to cut the end credits. This seems to happen mostly on films where I spend the whole time wonder who that supporting actor was and where I’d seen them before, or what song had been playing in the café during the fight scene. All these questions and more are brutally torn away from you as you watch the beginning of the credits dissolve into an advert or one of the Channel logos. Channel 4 have the decency to keep the credits on a lot of their movies though, so all credit (no pun intended) to them.

Swear Filters
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In the late 1980’s and early 90’s ITV was famous for its motherloving. Now if you’re confused by that statement, I’ll fill you in. Films such as Robocop were shown on ITV after the watershed, so you’d think that the violence and swearing would be left in, right? Well, no, and instead of leaving it blank, someone up in their little office somewhere thought it would be fun to have a go at filling them in with some slightly more savoury (if stupid) phrases. Hence, the sanitised version of Robocop went into history as the biggest comedy since Monty Python, with a ‘motherloving’ here and a ‘forget you’ there it was a right hoot and impossible to watch with a straight face. Who could forget the famous Die Hard quote of ‘Yippee Ki-Ai Keimosabe’ Hm, needless to say this was repeated with glee all over the country, especially by those who knew what the original words were.

Well, that’s my rant over with for now, I don’t expect any of these things to change in the near future, although the last one at least gives us some comedy to the proceedings. Maybe one day a TV channel will be created for film lovers and all these things will be in the past, until then keep watching you motherlovers.

Me

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Seinfeld_Enthusiast wrote:
> Yes, it will be a joyous occasion when I turn regular, I certainly think I
> deserve it.

Don't worry I think you deserve it too, your the most intelligent newbie I've seen lurking around. Unfortunately that's not as much of a compliment as it should be..

I can't believe I mis-spelt Palestine. God. I hate spelling things wrong. My pet hates on these forums are "definAtely" (why, god, why?!) "would of" and hypocrasy/hipocrasy/hipocrisy. One day they will learn to spell. One day. The government's introduced a spelling hour you know?

Yes, it will be a joyous occasion when I turn regular, I certainly think I deserve it. And, if you're going to refer, though spuriously, to 'Palestine', at least make sure you spell 'Palestine' properly! 'Palestine'! '''''! There, I think that should do it. I normally pick people up on their spelling like an Oxford English Dictionary on acid. Hmmm. Hmmm again. But it's so widespread here that it would be pointless. I guess I'm just hoping people will learn from my example, trusting me to spell things right! Because I never knowingly mispell! Never!!! Unless it's a typo, but those don't count. Where's this going, oh yeah, Godot. Thanks for the help. If anyone wants to know how to save the world from spelling mistakes, let me know. This seems to be more of a stream of consciousness than anything else. See how that was spelt? Good, eh? By the way, I find it slightly annoying how early people knock off on this thing, there's very few 3am, 4am posts and the rest. I suppose when they knock off, they go and knock one off. Well, you can't blame them. Well you can, but I won't. My therapist tells me I'm getting better now. She says soon it'll all be over. She says Godot is going to flow us off to the planet Typo where little green snotballs are going to probe us with dictionaries. Or something like that. Sometimes, I can still hear the screaming. Oh, the pain, the humanity, no no not there, no no, ah!!!!!!!

Seinfeld_Enthusiast wrote:
>Waiting for it to come to BBC or ITV is like waiting for Godot.

A most learned reference indeed :-) However, Godot might not even have existed, which makes their wait even more pointless. So can a definitely existing film be comapred to a possibly non-existent person/deity?

I just thought that I'd pick you up on it, seeing as you picked up on other people saying *shock horror!* Palastine. I sound terribly bitchy, I don't mean it really it's all good-natured.

Anyway you need to post more so that you can get a purple name and then everything will be smooth-running from thereon in.

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> (I had to read a
> play about boxing, but I was thrown out of A level English before I had the chance to finish it)

Bad luck, what did you do?

Seinfeld_Enthusiast wrote:


To be honest, I only know the phrase as a proverb, and I've
> heard my uncle say it a few times. I have no idea who Godot is, although I'm
> interested to know. I'm not a cultural philistine however, so please enlighten
> me, oh smart one.

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It's a play about some people waiting by a tree for Godot. They talk about stuff, and someone comes along who they think is Godot, but isn't, then in the second act the same thing happens. Then it's the end

I believe there's a message about searching for God in it somewhere, not that I've read it, I've just been told about it in English when someone in the class had to read it (I had to read a play about boxing, but I was thrown out of A level English before I had the chance to finish it)

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Seinfeld_Enthusiast wrote:
Waiting for it to come to BBC or ITV is like waiting
> for Godot.

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Ah, I see someone else knows the play

To be honest, I only know the phrase as a proverb, and I've heard my uncle say it a few times. I have no idea who Godot is, although I'm interested to know. I'm not a cultural philistine however, so please enlighten me, oh smart one.

And Titantic sucked! The only love affair in that film was between the director and his big dock-off ship. And everyone who watches films had already seen it, it was just the Xmas part-timers that saw it. With a few notable exceptions of course.

*Waiting for that backlash*

I was amazed when my mate said that was the first time he'd seen Titanic. I'd seen it loads (my mate was even worse, he must've watched it 20 times on video) by the time it got onto BBC1

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> The BBC paid LOADS to get Titanic the year before last, and hardly anyone
> watched it

Well what did they expect? It was on so early most people had it
> fresh in their memory from video and when it was on Sky every night

I watched it since there was nothing else on, and i hadnt seen it before. I was surprised by how good it was.