AMC (American Movie Classics)

I would like to start a major boycott of AMC. They used to be commercial free and a very good channel to watch, but now its all commercial. But the worst part in my mind is they continue to show "R" rated movies on a PG channel which is what they have made it since they censor and cut scenes to allow for their ads. They have to air R -rated movies to get any kind of an audience. I dont watch the channel anymore and certainly would never tape off it because besides the commercials they cut important scenes from movies. Do not watch amc, do not watch amc, do not watch amc , do not watch amc , do not watch amc. ever.

I watch it for their original programming, "Mad Men", "The Walking Dead". I would under no circumstances ever watch a movie on it, because of the commercials and butchering of the movie

I quit watching the channel, as the amount of commercials is RIDICULOUS! More so, I think I will start a webite to boycott the advertisers of the channel. I actually could care less about AMC, but I think it is so disrespectful and arrogant of AMC. I will do my part to send the message not to watch AMC and boycott the sponsors.

1 star. This channel is nothing but commercials. 3.5 mins of commercials every 7 mins. I can't even stand to watch 1 movie! The small amount of time I do spend in front of the idiot box will not be spent watching this POS channel..

AMC, just validates my investment in a PVR. Like all the other reviews here, I agree way to many commercials. What's sadder still is the actual movie is edited to fit around the commercials. "Story Matters Here" these 3 words associated with AMC just make me laugh now. By the way Aliens I've seen, good movie not sure I would classify it as a "Classic" but do you really have to run that movie and a handful of others over and over and over and over again. Little tip AMC; "Batman & Robin" SUCKED!!! It's not a classic.

Corrected, sorry for the errors. AMC has turned into a disgrace. It treats its viewers with so much disrespect by rendering any movie unwatchable. On the average, AMC movies are close to doubled in length because of commercials. On average, there is approximately 7 minutes of movie and approximately 3.5 minutes of commercials. I ask, how can anyone enjoy a movie when it is presented in such a manner. AMC once was a great station with great movies. Currently any good movie broadcasted is now virtually unwatchable . How can AMC, do this to their viewers?

I am on vacation from uk and this must be the most ridiculous channel there is. AMC( as many commercials) At least 6 commercial breaks lasting 5 minutes every hour. I have a great idea to get better revenues for amc. Sack the chimps who came up with this idea, save at least $500k a year . Introduce a 25 minute break halfway thru sponsored by a company $$$. in that 25 mins have some background on the movie production, historical facts etc and a couple of ads $$. Offer a DVD of the movie at the end $$$. I guarantee you will have millions coming back and you can hold your head up amc. If you want more advice drop me a line but for heavens sack stop putting the great american people thru this

i hate this station now..i haven't watched a single thing on it since right before 9/11..a week after 9/11 they started putting one commercial in the middle of the movie..9 months later, they change the whole station, not only do they put commercials in the middle of every movie, not only do they cut out every blood splat, every swear word, but they show the most shittiest movies in movie history..even when they do show something good, they still ruin them..and most importantly, monster-fest has been affected dramatically..i remember when they would spend a whole week showing great horror movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, the wolf man, the invisible man, the mummy, king kong, godzilla, and the list can go on but i don't want to take up too much of your time..anyway, yeah, they went from showing great movies like those un cut and uninterrupted to showing constantine and gothika, and catwoman..what the fuck is with this shit..if the people who run the station had any sense in their thic... Read more

The Shining was on the other day. AMC cut out the scene with the twins in the hallway. As far as I'm concerned, that is cinematic blasphemy. I will never trust AMC again with any American movie classic. I'm pretty sure AMC stands for American Movies Cut-up-and-unrecognizable.

I only watch AMC for "Mad Men" that is the only thing that they have done right since the decsion to air commercials. And when they started to show really crappy films.................I miss the AMC of the 1980's!! Bob Dorian rocked!!!

Horrible channel. Ads every 5 minutes. It disturbs the flow of the movie and irritates the hell out of me. Those stupid idiots managing the channel must be made to watch the movies and see how pissed off they get.

I just finished watching "Behind Enemy Lines" which started at 11:00PM and finished at 2:00AM so let me get this strait the film runs in at 106 minutes which is 1 hour & 46 minutes long but apparently AMC clocks it in as 3 hours are you kidding me? This is so stupid this studio has to play this and other films almost twice as long as the films themselves to get ratings? Screw That! And God in heaven how many times are they going to keep playing the same crap over and over and over again. Yea lets play the Matrix 14 billion times yea that'll get more viewers..... Every once in a while a classic movie gets thrown on their schedule but unfortunately it's shown early in the morning (oh but that's when I'm getting ready for WORK), and then the rest of the time they play stuff that SUCKS PERIOD!. Oh how I long for the days when AMC was a great channel and looked forward to seeing what was on playing! I miss the old AMC with Bob Dorian as the host of so many classic movies without commer... Read more

A perfect example: today, they're airing "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - which is a 1 hour, 43 minute film.....AMC's airtime? 2 1/2 hours. that's over 1/3 of airtime, dedicated to commercials.

AMC is an inspiring channel, it inspires me to put on a DVD. No Cable TV advantage with AMC, it's as bad as network television. Once upon a time cable tv was there to give us motion pictures without the annoyance of commercials. AMC doesn't even let the film finish without sticking in another commercial as the credits are rolling. Take this junk off the list of cable channels.

Way to many commercials.. totally ridiculous!!!.... A 2 hour movie seems to take over 3 hours to watch........ Whats even more crazy is the fact its the same goofy commercial.... AARP or the Scooter store.. I very seldom watch AMC anymore........ TCM or FMC is geat....!

Mainly movies From my Lifetime, If I wanted to see those I'd watch FX. Commercials every five minutes and very Few old movies. I'm glad I have such an extensive DVD selection and do not have to Watch this channel.

I used to get AMC when I had cable. I really enjoyed it while I had it. Now I have a satellite, so I have to take the stations that I have, which I'm ok with.

commercials... commercials... commercials; AMC will take a 130 minute movie and spread it over 3 frustrating hours... just expect 5 min of commercials (and Mad Men hype)every 10 minutes... better off using netflix

AMC used to be better than they are not. In the "good old days" they showed true classic films. Now they have modernized themselves and while they still show the occasional bonafide classic, it is mainly fluff they show these days.

Too many commercials. I watched Indecent Proposal, the movie is 117 mins on AMC it ran 270 mins.

Another channel not doing what their name suggest.MAD MEN is this a movie.movies made for AMC are not classic yet if ever.CATWOMAN is on this week.classically bad.

AMC is garbage now. Occasionally, I find a great movie (like "The King and I") but I change channels as soon as a commercial hits and never go back, or just shut off the TV altogether. TCM has all my attention now; it's THE best and really takes advantage of its great library of Warner Brothers, RKO and the original MGM, as well as licensed films from Paramount, Universal, MGM (little more than the name whose classic library now consists of United Artists), Columbia, 20th Century-Fox and, most recently, Disney and Touchstone. (The widescreen version TV debut broadcasts of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" aired on TCM last month.) With the combination of many great classics, some early turkeys (let's face it, without the turkeys there can be no classics)a great study for the historian and a full range of entertainment for the average viewer. AMC has nothing to offer anymore. The occasional great film is made mediocre by the cheap promos, commercials, credit-... Read more

Remember when TVLAND first started? Hardly any commercials and when they did show commercials they were the retromercials from the 50's 60's and 70's. They would show at least 6 within an hour. Eventually the retromercials dwindled, now your lucky if you see one a day and now it's totally like watching regular tv, chock full of commercials. Well I'm sorry to see that AMC has gone that route. Instead of true classic movies from the 30's 40's and 50's, we get Smokey And The Bandit II? Give me a break. Sorry AMC, but when I want true "classic" movies I turn to Turner Classic Movies!

A wide range of classics can be found on this channel, making a great escape for American film buffs.

This channel shows "Classics" from a few years ago that were universally panned by critics and audiences alike. If that weren't bad enough, it has commercials. Basically its a bad version of "Encore" with commercials. I remember when it was like Turner Classic.

It used to be a great channel, way back when, but now it's loaded, and I do mean LOADED, with commercials. Also, the quality of the movies they show has declined markedly. Like Bravo, which also was once a great channel, this one is virtually unwatchable now. TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is still a great channel, but give it time...I'm sure it's destined to go down the same depressing, commercial-laden road.

This covers a lot of great old flicks. You usually can find something to watch here.

Like everyone else has said, this channel is horribel now. The channel is called American Movie CLASSICS. Movies like Smokey and the Bandit II and Death Wish IV are not classsics. I gave it two stars instead of one because it does occasinally play Apocalypse Now, which shows they have some good taste left over from when they were good.

What a shame to see a channel fall so low. They will never regain their footing. It should just be taken off cable and satellite and go away into the abyss.

This channel is no longer worth watching or even checking to see what's on. What happened to the true classic movies they used to show? Ten years ago this was my favorite channel.

I used to watch AMC a lot. But since they took off The Three Stooges and The Little Rascals (two of my all time favorites) I don't watch it at all.

AMC sucks now. This channel plays Pinata: Survival Island. What a joke!

They still air classic movies, but now with more commercials and more crappy movies that every other superstation runs.

They play the same movies over and over again now. We used to get variety and old REAL CLASSIC movies. Now it's newer movies.

I agree with MissPackRat here--this channel is quite disappointing now, playing films which are generally a couple of decades old and somewhere in the middle to low part of the quality spectrum. I miss when they played CLASSIC films.

I liked AMC much better a few years ago when it played more of the moldy oldies from the '30s and '40s (and occasionally a few silent gems starring comic geniuses like Chaplin and Keaton). Plus, they would often put in some old newsreels and vintage intermissions to enhance the nostalgic atmosphere, and had a bigger variety. AMC still shows a fairly good flick once in a while, but it is certainly a far cry from what it used to be. In order to once again live up to its title American Movie Classics, it needs to return back to the old format -- showing movies which were truly considered classics.

I used to like this channel before they went to commercial format. They show the same movies over and over again. They do not show enough classic movies. TCM is much better.

In a way AMC's decline is due to circumstances beyond its control. When Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner, they were able to get the rights to the majority of classic films that AMC had in its library. Thus overnight, AMC's programming was decimated and it had to go with more recent, low quality films to stay afloat. Even so, AMC didn't help its cause by adding commercials and probably alienated the few viewers they had left by doing that. I haven't watched the new AMC and neither has anyone else I know. They fought the good fight, but maybe AMC should just admit defeat and go off the air.

What used to be one of my fav channels has turned into CRAP! Too many commercials --- if I wanted that I'd watch the cut up versions of films on the network channels. And the movies are no longer classics but stuff I could easily buy in the bargin bin at the video store. What corporation bought this once great channel?

Lost a star when they went commercial.

AMC has sold out. I am sickened and disgusted by its new line-up because all the advertisements rupture the true essence of how film is supposed to be enjoyed. Unfortunately, when the channel started out, it meant to have its viewers learn about the film industry and the directors, if not the stars. Now, it is nothing but a low-rate independent channel (you know the ones--the channels that air cheap, bad films that don't even fall into the camp territory). I am sad to see AMC to go this way. I hope that there is a petition or a campaign that lets the channel know what a crock and rip off it is becoming. For God's sake--it used TO SHOW GILDA AND LAURA!!!!

With commercials every ten minutes, watching AMC is an exercise in movie torture. I have Dish Network and can see what they will be showing for the next 8 days. If I see a movie listed that I may want to watch, I will put it into my search function and wait for it to come up on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) instead. I'd much rather watch letterboxed and uninterrupted CLASSIC movies, than the tripe showing on AMC these days. I feel it is time AMC is removed from the airwaves.

This used to be a channel that lived up to it's name,and now it's a joke.Thank God for Turner Classic Movies!

It's just been in the last year or so that I've really gotten into the old movies, mostly because I discovered Turner Classic Movies, which has quickly become favorite network. I understand that AMC used to be good as well, though I never actually watched them in their heyday. That's probably a good thing, because I think I'd be really upset if I'd had to watch the transition from the old AMC to the new AMC with all the crappy non-classic movies, tons of commercials, no letterboxing, the garish graphics, and--worst of all--the irritating "movie people" interrupting the films every 10 minutes to make lame and pointless comments. I HATE the movie people! I don't care about their stupid paid opinions. I just want to watch a movie without interruptions. I'm sure AMC thinks they're appealing to a younger demographic by dumbing down their content, but I'm 23 and I'm offended by AMC's total lack of respect for the films they show and for their audience. I will not be tuning in to AMC... Read more

AMC was a great channel, it is now fluff. If you want a good classic movie channel watch TCM! AMC (America's Many Commercials) sucks!!!!

Used to be 4 stars. . .too many commercials. Too many movies that simply don't deserve to be called 'classics'

WHat a shame and a sham that AMC went from my favorite channel to another worthless whore of a commercial overload. Boy, did they go straight to hell! "New AMC"? Give me back the old or go away! AMC is dead. LONG LIVE TCM!

In recent months, AMC has definitely gone down hill as a movie channel. I expect to watch a classic movie or short film, but no they have given up on all of that and in return we get movies that have appeared on many other cable channels. They still show old movies a few times, but are not enough to satisfy the viewers. Not only they are nolonger a classic movie channel, but they even show more commercials than usual. AMC might as well change their name to something like "Commercial Movie Channel" or "Recent Movie Channel".

AMC Whaa Happa ????? Did you forget about the Movie Classics part fo your logo? You used to be right up there in My favorite channel list, sorry to say now your channel is in My sh.t list. Why do you feel the need for that irritating logo box in the lower right of My screen. I KNOW I AM TUNED TO AMC, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REMIND ME! Where are the classics? Robo Cop a classic? your yanking My chain, right? And how many times is it going to be on this week? four or five hundred? And how many commercials are you opting to air in a two hour movie? Fifty?, Seventy Five? And that idiotic "What I think a movie should be" bull you feel you have to show every five minutes. Cut the cr&p, I allready now what a movie should be, obviously you do'nt. Get your head out of your well "You Know" AMC Another Monotonous Channel.. I to will no longer tune to this channel.

I used to love this channel, but now it gets a rating of 0 from me. I cannot believe that a once great channel has fallen this far. One commercial per movie was bad enough, but now there are many commercial breaks throughout a film. This to me is obscene. No longer are most of their movies classics. AMC should stand for American Movie Crap. I will no longer tune to this channel.