Planet of the Apes Marathon 12/31 AMC

[LJNfan]

AMC marathon

When did AMC start showing commercials, I do not watch many movies on TV anymore but the last time I remember they did not have commercials, is this a recent thing?

[HardyGirl]

Wasn't '98 the 30th anniversary? I believe that's when I taped this. Roddy McDowall hosted the marathon of movies w/ Behind the POTA. I was glad he got to see this great series of movies turn 30 before he died.

[HardyGirl]

When did AMC start showing commercials, I do not watch many movies on TV anymore but the last time I remember they did not have commercials, is this a recent thing?

AMC and Bravo starting showing commercials some years back, maybe 5 or 6 years. I miss recording cool movies w/o the ads on those channels. Nowadays, I record from TCM.

[jessica]

Holy smacks. I am at work all day. For some reason I thought the marathon was tomorrow. Grrr....

[MegoGeekJr]

Planet of the apes marathon!!!!!!

I just wanted everyone to know a planet of the apes marathon.

HURRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you catch it right now, it will be Beneth the Planet of the apes!!!

It on AMC(I don't know what channel it will be for everyone)

Your welcome, A.

[Hector]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll try to keep, that's a lot oif movies, lol.

Too bad AMC has not gotten their act together and have a HD channel, lots of them have one already (like TBS, TNT, A & E, USA, History, National Geographic, Discovery, etc...).

[jessica]

Turned on the tv as soon as I got home and I'm still enjoying it (while I'm wearing my chimp fleece sweater that I made!!). I turned on the tv and got to the part where Dr. Galen was talking to Zira about the quota system--so I didn't miss too much.

[mego73]

You know, I have the all the movies in the Caesar head but still ended up watching part of Apes and later all of Escape on AMC. I was doing stuff so I guess I was reserving the no commercial widescreen off DVD showings for when I could give it 100% attention.

It's so sad to see what AMC is today compared to what it was though. I caught a little bit of Shirley Temple's Curly Top on AMC around Christmas and it was colorized.

This from a channel that in the 80's and 90's used to have a featurette between movies preaching against colorization.

I have to acknowledge that there is still stuff worth watching/recording on AMC and also they have a lower commercial to program time ratio than most cable networks but the days of it being something very special are long gone.

Thank goodness TCM hasn't changed (so far).

[jwyblejr]

Cool! I'll tune in. I'm still hoping we get a real POTA movie again. I would like to see it pick up where Battle left off though. I dont care for the most recent movie.

That would've been interesting to see if they had went and did a sixth movie back in the day. Make it go full circle. Show what would happen this time with all of the changes and see what happens when Taylor winds up in the future.