TCM Sinking To A New Low - Page 5

Wahoogaz · ‎03-12-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@Wahoogaz wrote:
@Enufstuff wrote:
@Wahoogaz
How can that be considered a "classic"?

Exactly my point. I love horror/monster/paranormal movies ... but there's no such thing as a good slasher movie, much less a classic slasher movie.

TCM is quickly going the way of AMC and their 'new classics'. I can't remember the last time I watched anything on AMC.

I've started recording the real classic movies I like before TCM stops showing them for good.

There are new channels popping up all the time, so I'm hoping a new classic movie channel will come along soon.

@Wahoogaz The Movies channel shows classics, if you get that channel. All day yesterday, were Judy Garland movies and other musicals, Meet Me in St. Louis was one.

I've noticed quite a few new channels are showing classic movies ... so I'm happy about that. One that just popped up on Dish in the last weeks is FMC - Family Movie Channel. So far, it's been showing a lot of movies from the 1930s and 1940s.

Wahoogaz · ‎03-12-2010

@JamandBread wrote:
Well it is about Santa Claus and it's 34 years old and some people like this kind of film (Psycho, anyone?)
Different strokes, as they say.
Huge fan of TCM.

To me, it just seems like TCM has started going down the same slope that AMC did many years ago. They changed their definition of what they considered a classic movie and started showing what they called 'the new classics' and added commercials during the movies. I hardly ever watch AMC any more.

I've got no problem with slasher movies being shown ... they're obviously popular or they wouldn't be making them. I'm just disappointed that TCM is considering any film in that genre a classic.

bikerbabe · ‎03-09-2010

@Duckncover wrote:
That is terrible! I have also been disappointed in the lineup of holiday movies they are showing. I also have been disappointed in the war movies that they have shown around the Fourth of July and Veterans Day...used to enjoy them as they would include some that were musicals with Gene Kelly or some with Jimmy Stewart that were not total, bloody battlefield scenes. Now that's about all they do. Full Metal Jacket is not something that I want to watch to remember our freedoms.

I guess I view it differently. Wow those cute fluffy musicals are fun to watch, and I enjoy them myself, they do nothing to give the viewer an appreciation or even the tiniest glimpse of what veterans have had to endure in war. I have a much greater appreciation through movies like Full Metal Jacket or Platoon or Saving Private Ryan. Even those movies pale in comparison to reality.

JamandBread · ‎06-24-2021

@Wahoogaz wrote:
@JamandBread wrote:
Well it is about Santa Claus and it's 34 years old and some people like this kind of film (Psycho, anyone?)
Different strokes, as they say.
Huge fan of TCM.

To me, it just seems like TCM has started going down the same slope that AMC did many years ago. They changed their definition of what they considered a classic movie and started showing what they called 'the new classics' and added commercials during the movies. I hardly ever watch AMC any more.

I've got no problem with slasher movies being shown ... they're obviously popular or they wouldn't be making them. I'm just disappointed that TCM is considering any film in that genre a classic.

Is Psycho a classic?

Buffalogal47 · ‎07-14-2010

TCM started going south when Robert Osborne passed away.

lgfan · ‎10-19-2012

I don't understand what the big deal is about showing slasher films on TCM. The channel has shown Polyster, Pink Flamingos, Berserk and Straight-Jacket among other movies that can be considered low grade and there have not been many complaints. I don't know why the movie Silent Night, Deadly Night is seen so negatively. Some people enjoy these films.

Johnnyeager · ‎09-05-2014

I believe that "Psycho" is most absolutely a fabulously executed majestic classic. Unparalleled in brilliance.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I had recorded the movie mentioned in the OP and just watched it yesterday.

Man, that was really baaaaad!

I don't know if it's considered a classic or anything like that, as I don't know about these things, but there are other movies considered in that manner that I didn't think were, so maybe it's on me.

lgfan · ‎10-19-2012

"I believe that "Psycho" is most absolutely a fabulously executed majestic classic. Unparalleled in brilliance."

I agree with you. I think that first rate actors can elevate a slasher movie to brilliance. Just look at the movie "The Silence of the Lambs".

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

@JamandBread wrote:
@Wahoogaz wrote:
@JamandBread wrote:
Well it is about Santa Claus and it's 34 years old and some people like this kind of film (Psycho, anyone?)
Different strokes, as they say.
Huge fan of TCM.

To me, it just seems like TCM has started going down the same slope that AMC did many years ago. They changed their definition of what they considered a classic movie and started showing what they called 'the new classics' and added commercials during the movies. I hardly ever watch AMC any more.

I've got no problem with slasher movies being shown ... they're obviously popular or they wouldn't be making them. I'm just disappointed that TCM is considering any film in that genre a classic.
Is Psycho a classic?