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Monday, November 27, 2006

TNT, I got some beef with you

I watched Gone with the Wind this weekend on TNT. Great movie, but I have some questions for TNT about its five-hour broadcast.
Could you make the corner promos of the season premiere of The Closer and the broadcast premiere of Van Helsing any bigger? And, could you find any more inappropriate parts of the movie to put them in?
Here’s how it went. I’m watching as Scarlet lies and whines her through situation after situation, then when the movie finally comes to a dramatic part - bam! There’s a promo for Van Helsing, plain as day, covering up one-fourth of the picture.
The scene where the camera pan’s as Scarlett is yelling she “will never be hungry again,” there’s a promo for The Closer.
And every time it happened, I was like “Wow, really. You couldn’t do that at any other time?”
Now, I’ve come to accept that commercials will break up the flow of a movie. That’s fine. There’s a price for seeing things for free on television. But could you zip it on the promos?
It’s one thing when you put them up during your daily Law & Order marathons, but during Gone with the Wind? A movie that defined the grandeur of filmmaking for an entire era and even today is considered one of the most breathtaking films ever made - even when it’s on television. You’re going to interrupt that with a promo for The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines? Show a little class.
TNT. I didn’t want to do this, but you made me. You’re grounded. That’s means you have to come right home after basketball, no trips to the library, and no Changes of Plans. Not until you learn a lesson, buster.
Maybe next time you won’t interrupt GWTW for something from “The producers of Independence Day.” We’ll, you probably will, but just to let you know you’re walking on thin ice bucko.

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