So, my friends and I have this long running gag about the cable TV channel AMC. American Movie Classics. The joke being that at least two of the three are right. The American, and the Movie.
See, years ago, they really did show a lot of classics. But then Ted Turner, who owned the rights to a lot of those movies, saw another cash cow, and another network was created which had exclusive rights to a lot of the old movies deemed classics: TCM, Turner Classic Movies. AMC had to start filling in the programming gaps with gems like Predator 2. It's gotten better lately, to be fair, but let's say that there was some really stretches on the "Classics" part of their title.
So last week, while Jessie and I were in Vegas, I found myself flipping channels while Jessie either got ready or was napping (I forget which), and I came across AMC. And once again, it was two out of three.
Except this time, it was a different two out of three.
The movie they were running was Das Boot.
A movie, to be sure, and very much a classic. But Das Boot is about as American as Canadian Bacon (The food, not the movie, which was directed by Michael Moore before he became such a polarizing figure). Great movie. But it's from Germany (technically West Germany).
What's next? Seven Samarai?
That is about as non-American as a Steven Segal film. Oh wait, I said non-American, not un-American. Doh
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