Re-posted by N.S.
"what happened to tcm? (video)
"@stephennootens916 A staff that has been cut in half since his [Robert Osborne's] pasting [sic]."
N.S.: That doesn't make sense. Bob Osborne used to host every single picture at TCM. When he began to ail, he was replaced by Red Eddie Muller, Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart and Ben Mankiewicz.
That is an expansion of 800%, not a diminution by 50%.
As for the intros and outros, if I were a host, I would write my own copy, but also sometimes improvise. TCM claims that all of these people are (in Osborne's case, was) "film historians" and "authors." But if they have ghost writers, none of them is an historian or author. So, why doesn't TCM give credit, fame, and money to the real historians and authors?
"@thunderstruck5484 I knew something was amiss when they would show “The Searchers” and feel the need to comment that John Wayne’s character was racist, I always looked at it as a man going after those that destroyed his brother and his family and kidnapped his nieces, anyway I didn’t feel that was necessary, thanks I enjoyed your video"
TCM has been kidnapped by racial socialists who hate classic movies, and is geared towards people who don't even watch it. They have black nazis as guests like Donald Bogle and Spike Lee, whom the hosts treat like gods.
N.S.: Anyone who emphasizes that John Wayne's character is "racist" is completely dishonest. The Commanche gang-raped and slaughtered his mother, sister-in-law, niece or daughter, and raped his other niece or daughter. And yet the same people never call the Commanche "racist."
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Turner Classic Movies once served a very specific purpose. it curated [?!] film history, treated classic cinema with respect, and trusted its audience to engage with older films on their own terms. over time, that mission has quietly eroded.
"this video essay looks at what has happened to Turner Classic Movies, why the channel feels fundamentally different today, and how corporate restructuring, shifting priorities, and a streaming-first mindset have pushed TCM to the margins. this isn’t about nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. it’s about what gets lost when curation, preservation, and institutional memory stop being priorities when major corporations like Warner Bros and netflix enter the ring.
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Probably on hold until all the black movies they make nowadays can replace the White classic films. Give it a year,lol.
black movies--from Netflix to TCM-- faster than Usaine Bolt runs the 100 yard dash.
What I'm saying is--too many White movies get shown--and blacks complained.
Just a theory.
--GRA
It seems to have been forgotten that TCM instituted a series several years ago, hosted by a black woman no less, which introduced "problematic" classic movies, and lectured the audience on why they were "offensive" by today's standards. A highlight was PSYCHO, which was described as a slander against transvestites! (That's men who like to dress up as women, not to be confused with transgenders, who actually mutilate their bodies in order to "become" women.) I think SOME LIKE IT HOT was included in the series as well, for making fun of sexual confusion.
I gave up cable TV long before then, but if I hadn't, I would have written TCM off at that point!
By the way, I believe I commented on here long ago that the "great film historian" Robert Osborne's intros were ghost-written, included grievous errors, and caused some trouble when he was provided with verbatim quotes from a published author's work.
Osborne was so flaming, I had to move my TV 6 feet from the curtains when he came on!
-RM
Lol. Osbourne was a real life "human torch" then.
If "Fantastic Four" comics are still being made,I wonder if they've turned Johnny Storm into a fruit yet.
--GRA
Corollary to THE SEARCHERS being racist: I watched HONDO a while back, and enjoyed it a lot, then they blew it at the climax. After taking great pains throughout to emphasize the savage cruelty of the Apaches, at the finish Geraldine Page comes up with some simpering platitude PRAISING the Indian tribe that nearly killed her, and Wayne drawls inanely, "Yep, it's a great way of life!" Even then, as they used to say, "the rot was setting in."
I even once saw a B-western from the thirties once where the hero (may have been Tom Mix) says of the Indians, "It's their land, they were here first!" Tell that to the people who preceded them, that the INDIANS genocided!
-RM
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