So often when one basks in the glory that is cable, they forget the joy of the "modified for TV" movie. If it weren't for TV movie replays, would I ever have seen Trading Places as a kid? Or Short Circuit? Or Splash? Or memorized the handshake in Big? Seminal films here, people.
As a person that is currently living (despite my sick new flat screen) in the 1996 equivalent of home technology, a big shout out to the 10/55 Movie at 8. So far, this channel has played some of my all-time favorites (e.g. True Lies, albeit with the scene where Simon pisses himself cut out) as well as the kind of movie trash you hope to see on TV, like bad movies with good actors (e.g. Dustin Hoffman in Sphere).
This channel is great at playing stuff that either a) you don't want to pay for or b) are happy to let play in the background -- like an album you know all the words to, but would never actually choose to put on the stereo...think the Immaculate Collection (remind me one of these days to tell you how I learned the meaning of the word "virgin"...thank you Madonna for speeding up my sexual education). Anyway, it's strengthening my resolve to put the inevitable confrontation with Time Warner on hold (I just Googled "cable internet options brooklyn" and in addition to the Time Warner site found about 2,543 blogs on crappy installation experiences. Sweet).
By the way, I will not apologize for loving "low brow" movies like True Lies and Hudson Hawk. If you haven't seen them, put it on the NetFlix list. Then let me borrow it, because I don't have that yet either...
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