Tuesday, February 15, 2011

IFC cable channel sucks

First off, congratulation to the Arab World for finally joining the modern world in Freedom and Free Speech in wanting to throw off the shackles of your tyrannical governments. Like China after putting down their Communist leaders who had set China back 100 years, the realization of people all over the world is that the people, not the governments, should be in charge and responsible for their lives and futures. You're on a roll people, don't stop now. And my condolences to those people and families who are going to lose loved ones through murderous and paranoid behavior by those, especially religious leaders who are set to continue to oppress their people and charges. Shame on you. Let your people go, dudes!

Now, about another of the losers in our own country....

Okay, IFC, Independent Film Channel (should be Ignorant f------ C-, well you figure it out), has commercials now. For some small time now, really. Their mismanagement of a public trust leading to this current situation is unbelievable.

Maybe old news, but every time now I see there is a film I would like to watch, I realize its IFC. Hopefully, because if you Tivo it, you may end up watching it and then when you are hit in the face with a commercial, you go, wait a minute, what CHANNEL is this, oh, NO, its the IFC, and you then switch it off, or watch it and angrily zip through commercials to the end of the show.

I was just watching Monty Python's Life of Brian. Commercials. Ruins the atmosphere of the film, it does.

IFC used to be cool. A channel that was some kind of awesome, with hard to find films on it. Then they stopped that, started showing mostly run of the mill stuff with the occasional tidbit thrown in. Then, commercials. Now? Now, I think they are run by retards. Oh, sorry, not PC enough? Then they are, no, wait, yes, they are retarded. Mentally deficit. I don't know? Idiots? Bastards is a bit strong but really, they are not very nice people. At least, that's how I see their programming department. Stupid.

I have to have a few more derogatory adjectives around here. oh, there's one, stuck in between the cushions of the couch: Banal. Their programming is bociferous. Yes, bociferous. That's banal and vociferous, yes, its screaming banality.

Don't give me that. Oh, I know, there are exceptions. But they really don't disprove a thing. It's just sad.

I'm giving serious thought to blocking the channel so I can't see what they have available. I WOULD continue watching this channel, but really, they would have to change their name from Independent Film Channel, to something more realistic like, Intermittent Farce Channel (well, they can keep their acronym, I don't care).

It's kind of like what I hear about Sundance Film Festival. Just no longer what it once was and now there is too much corporate-ness about it. Now, the Sundance Channel, could do what IFC is doing and that wouldn't bother me because at least they didn't start out all pretentious and making promises they didn't keep.

Sundance is an independent film channel too, they just weren't pompous enough to call themselves that.

11 comments:

  1. I agree this channel is infested with lame fox shows that sucked back then.
    A long time ago i loved waking up on saturday to watch Samurai movies
    martial art films. now its just another piece of shit channel.

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  2. This channel is now the worst. I don't care what they're showing, It's way too aggravating. For me, it is now just a blur on the way to something more substantial.

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  3. i agree it now sucks. and so does sundance

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  4. Why does Sundance edit out the curse words?

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  5. IM SO GLAD TO HAVE FOUND YOU , i f c "WAS" MY ONLY PLEASURE ,ON T V AND I KEEP HOLDING ON ,CHECKING TO C WHATS ON , I GUESS I WILL GIVE UP ,SHOULD HAVE A LONG TIME AGO ,IS THERE ANY OTHER PLACE TO GO ? AND WHAT A FOOLISH MOVE THEY MADE ,CATERTING TO ? THE WEAK I CANT EVEN BEGIN TO ,OR WANT TO KNOW

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  6. AMC bought out Sundance and IFC. They purposely made both Sundance and IFC lame to make AMC "look better". Now we have 3 more cable TV channels that suck.

    Once they get the advertizng dollars in hand, who gives a flying f*ck if anyone watches??? It's all asbout the bottom line, NOT the viewer! Get over yourselves, sheeple!

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  7. IFC went down the tubes faster than the speed of sound ten years ago. The end of their Escape from Hollywood block, Dinner for Five, and decent original programs (Jackie Woodman, The Business) was just the beginning of the end.

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  8. Whats the latest series running on IFC TV these days?

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  9. Well they have some good shows. I just objected to who they were, how they mismanaged things and where they were headed. I don't even get that channel anymore since I moved now and retired to write full time.

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  10. A little late but I just tuned back into the IFC channel because it's up with the paid channels and wasn't advertised as free. Anyways, totally disappointed. I loved finding unknown directors and movies, watching shorts/films by people who are trying to make it. Sundance was about the same and now they play two and a half men.

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    1. Thanks for the comment. I haven't been on there since forever at this point but things do tend to start off with great ideas and then the market (or greed) often alters all that good intention. Sundance as you point out is another I felt was diminished over time.

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