Turner Classic Movies--What A Day Today! Who Watches This Channel?  

I am a serious fan of the channel myself, but for a while now, I have been without cable tv. I plan to renew it once I pay the bill up. I love old movies and lately, I have been gettng my personal collection going as well. Dead Poets Society was a bit strange for me. The young guy who wanted to be a writer but his dad was footing the bill and wanted more for him struck me through the whole movie. Yes, I am lover of classic movies.

I would've enjoyed the first 4 movies, I've seen them and enjoyed them. But I hardly consider Dead Poet Society a "classic" movie... yet.

I do know that Robin williams was playing against "type" here & many didn't enjoy his performance. I viewed it as proving that he was more than just a "funny face" (making fun of those movies where the women proved they could last past the dewy starlet stage....)

I can't say that I loved the movie, because I hated the whole thing, I hate those kinds of movies, but I thought Williams did a good job with what he had.

I love watching old movies,i like all the good thillers....In fact i like watching any old flim,my daughters not been feeling well today so we have been sat on the sofa watching some of the classics....its been a good day.

I think this month is also 31 Days of Oscar on Turner Classic Movies, showing 31 classic Oscar winners in some category.
I used to really like the old Hitchcock movies, especially North by Northwest with Cary Grant. I thought Cary Grant was the last of the big time stars.
North by Northwest was a classic thriller and I loved the film until I watched it a couple years ago and some things hit me.
One... in this scene there is gunfire....GUNFIRE!... the two Soviet spies TRAINED WITH GUNS... come out of the their room and go...what was that?... and the woman goes...Oh, just a noise. They say...okay... now don't you try to escape...or we'll kill you.
And they left!
Then... at the end... the woman shoots Cary Grant and he falls to the ground dead in front of the Russian spies.
Thirty seconds later an ambulance pulls up, the EMT gets out, touches Cary Grant in the neck and goes... yep he's dead. They put him on a stretcher, load him up and leave!
The Russian spies just stand there.
They don't check Cary for any blood. They don't try to confirm his pulse.
They don't do anything.
Of course, Cary Grant sits up in back after the ambulance pulls away.
It was all a ruse.
Russian spies must have been complete idiots back then.
I didn't like Bedknobs. I thought it was long and a Mary Poppins ripoff. I'm very partial to Mary Poppins so I'm not objective on that.
I guess my favorite classic movies are the original Frankenstein and Dracula movies made back in 1931. They were the first talkies and infinitely better than any of the remakes they've tried to make since.

Hello thanks for sharing. Here in India this channel is not in the telecast list. But given a chance I would love to watch. Keep sharing friend.
DR.B.SARAF Ph.D.

We had that channel for a while during one of those free previews from the satellite company and I loved it. My mom has always been a fan of older movies so we were raised on them. I miss the channel alot since we don't have it anymore. I think I'll look into subscribing to it!

TCM is where I first saw Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant...what a honey he was. I loved watching those kinds of movies. Roger Rabbit, War Games and Bedknobs and Broomsticks are some of my favorites. We don't do cable anymore but these are on my list of movies to buy on DVD.

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