American Movie Channel

It is one of those movie channels, that we get in our cable package, and at the beginning, the only commercials it had, was for itself. Something I never really understood, because you get it, whether you want it or not.  Still it had some interesting films, and now & then I find one worth watching.

Now I get the need for commercials, because that is how they pay for bringing us their line up. Least that is the explanation, but I have to wonder about the people in charge, who decide when to air the commercials, and how many.

Last night, watched Hellfighters with John Wayne & Tim Hutton. I rather liked it, but I simply got so pissed off with AMC, that I really feel like strangling their edit department. I mean, the movie is a bit longer than many of today's crap, but the commercial breaks weren't too annoying...  at first.

The end of the show, is the most dramatic portion, so the last 15 minutes of the show, had not one commercial break, not two, but FOUR commercial breaks inserted into the movie.  Like that is going to make me want to buy the advertised products?

And for the record, the breaks weren't one or two minutes, but averaged about four minutes in length. Worse is, the commercials were also the EXACT SAME.  Now, I mean, I get the need for them, but uh, spacing them out as they did for the last 15 minutes, not only ruined the ending, but it made me convinced NOT TO BUY from those sponsors.

It has also made me not want to watch that channel.