Which is better? HBO, Cinemax, Showtime?
Rob
I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
a bunch of "family programming" or old stale flicks.
I know when I used to have HBO years ago, I got sick of
seeing the same movies over and over and over. Too many
re-runs of the same show. Well, whats your opinion??
Pls. e-mail me, as I may not get back to this newsgroup soon.
Thanks.
r...@tumyeto.com
Marty Jukovsky
made-for-HBO movies such as BARBARIANS AT THE GATE and CITIZEN X.
Martin Jukovsky
Cambridge, Mass.
mar...@yankeegroup.com
Phil Paxton
>Hi!
>I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
>Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
>a bunch of "family programming" or old stale flicks.
>I know when I used to have HBO years ago, I got sick of
>seeing the same movies over and over and over. Too many
>re-runs of the same show. Well, whats your opinion??
I have all of them (HBO, Showtime, TMC, MAX, and Disney) -- you get a
discount that way. As for features, HBO offers a first-run movie every
Saturday night (although some of them are real dogs). MAX is offering the
"1000 movies of the summer" so there aren't many repeats.
>Pls. e-mail me, as I may not get back to this newsgroup soon.
This is a moronic practice that seems to happen more & more...post public,
reply public. If you don't have time to read follow-ups to your note,
don't post at all.
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Robert A. DeLisle
: Hi!
: I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
: Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
: a bunch of "family programming" or old stale flicks.
: I know when I used to have HBO years ago, I got sick of
: seeing the same movies over and over and over. Too many
: re-runs of the same show. Well, whats your opinion??
I got a special deal for HBO, SHO and TMC. I prefer HBO.
SHO has Outer Limits. TMC has an occasional movie.
When the deal runs out (1/96), I may renew HBO and SHO.
I have no use for DIS, but MAX has a movie once in awhile.
I don't have time to watch much, so the repeats are helpful.
BTW, ENC is not available, but not worth much, either.
: Pls. e-mail me, as I may not get back to this newsgroup soon.
I agree in general with a previous poster, but if you want a
specific piece of info, what else can you do? My problem has
been that email bounces sometimes and then I delete it
regretting the time I spent writing.
Chris Sonnack
> HBO has Larry Sanders and Dennis Miller. It has also had some superb
> made-for-HBO movies such as BARBARIANS AT THE GATE and CITIZEN X.
Some may be, as you say, superb, but many of them a pure dreck. Thin
excuses for violence (which HBO seems to love). MAX seems to offer more
sexy stuff.
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Michael S Ritchie
>Rob (r...@tumyeto.com) wrote:
>: I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
>: Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
>: a bunch of "family programming" or old stale flicks.
I have only Cinemax currently, but am thinking about dropping
it soon. The only reason I have it is for the older (1940s-1950s)
movies they show (which I'm guessing the original poster doesn't want
to see, though "old stale flicks" could include The Beastmaster).
Their selection of newer movies is poor, and tends toward the
action B-movies and soft-core Z-movies that at one time would have
been drive-in second featrues. One good thing about Cinemax is that
they are the only premium service to my knowledge that runs uncut
NC-17 or unrated movies, like Poison, Wide Sargasso Sea, and
You So Crazy.
>: Pls. e-mail me, as I may not get back to this newsgroup soon.
>
>I agree in general with a previous poster, but if you want a
>specific piece of info, what else can you do? My problem has
>been that email bounces sometimes and then I delete it
>regretting the time I spent writing.
Occasionally, I will post to a group that I don't have access
to and ask for specific info to be e-mailed. I can post to
any group from my site, but I can only read certain groups.
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| christian right go out and spread mercy, compassion,
| and selflessness?" --Moby
Phil Paxton
>: Pls. e-mail me, as I may not get back to this newsgroup soon.
>I agree in general with a previous poster, but if you want a
>specific piece of info, what else can you do? My problem has
>been that email bounces sometimes and then I delete it
>regretting the time I spent writing.
My feeling is this: if you don't have time to come back to get an answer
then you think the rest of us are your slaves, for you to take advantage
of and answer your questions at your whim.
If you post to a newsgroup with a lot of traffic, then put a tag on your
message in the subject line to make it easy (easier) to find (e.g., tqxv)
or something else that won't come up by accident, then just do a search
for it.
If people ask for a private reply, I usually just reply public and let
them suffer or ignore it. Considering [that] I read over 100 magazines a
month and six newspapers a day, then I'd say I probably have a little
information to dispense.
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Phil Paxton :: Fishers, Indiana, USA
Don Weinman
>Some may be, as you say, superb, but many of them a pure dreck. Thin
>excuses for violence (which HBO seems to love). MAX seems to offer
more
>sexy stuff.
After all, sex and violence are the twin pillars of wholesome
entertainment, right?
DPW
Hillari Hunter
>
> After all, sex and violence are the twin pillars of wholesome
> entertainment, right?
>
> DPW
>
Showtime has Red Show Diaries, which is way better than either
Compromising Positions or Love Street. Showtime also has good
music specials.
Hillari
Tim Smith
>I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
>Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
Buy TV Guide for a few weeks. In the back, they list the movies that will
be shown on the premium channels. Read this list, see what movies you'd
like to watch and which channels they are shown on, filter this through
your personal utility function, and you'll find out which is best.
--Tim Smith
Matt Ackeret
Phil Paxton <jug...@dorite.use.com> wrote:
>reply public. If you don't have time to read follow-ups to your note,
>don't post at all.
I don't think that the practice is all that wrong, it's just that
people should get a clue and realize how to use the _technology_ to
effectively force mail-replies rather than posted-replies.
In other words, putting "poster" (without quotes) in
the Followup-To: header line causes replies to be mailed rather than posted.
Sure, if one _really_ wants to post a reply they of course can, however the
news software purposely makes it more difficult.
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Phil Paxton
>>Some may be, as you say, superb, but many of them a pure dreck. Thin
>>excuses for violence (which HBO seems to love). MAX seems to offer
>more
>>sexy stuff.
>After all, sex and violence are the twin pillars of wholesome
>entertainment, right?
To some.
I guess the previous message is interesting with the Real Sex series on
HBO? Besides, HBO and MAX are part of the same company.
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Chris Sonnack
>>> Some may be, as you say, superb, but many of them a pure dreck. Thin
>>> excuses for violence (which HBO seems to love). MAX seems to offer
>>> more sexy stuff.
>>
>> After all, sex and violence are the twin pillars of wholesome
>> entertainment, right?
>
> To some.
>
> I guess the previous message is interesting with the Real Sex series on
> HBO? Besides, HBO and MAX are part of the same company.
The Real Sex series is only (IMO, of course) mildly interesting and
usually //not// very sexy. More documentary than entertaining.
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>
>r...@tumyeto.com (Rob) writes:
>
>>Hi!
>>I'm thinking of getting a premium channel for movies...
>>Which one of these is the best?? I want real movies, not
>>seeing the same movies over and over and over. Too many
>>re-runs of the same show. Well, whats your opinion??
I used to switch between HBO and Sho regularly and finally
got them both. Actually I get everything except FLIX. It's
really hard to rank them because the movie differ from month
to month. If it's available, you might want to check out
STARZ. It's relatively new and seems to have movies nobody
elso does (Schindler's List was on in Feb.!). Good luck!
>
Loren Heisey
>I used to switch between HBO and Sho regularly and finally
>got them both. Actually I get everything except FLIX. It's
>really hard to rank them because the movie differ from month
>to month. If it's available, you might want to check out
>STARZ. It's relatively new and seems to have movies nobody
>elso does (Schindler's List was on in Feb.!). Good luck!
STARZ is not the only premium channel that has exclusive showing of movies
as the rest do too. There are even cases of this elsewhere as for example
NBC has exclusive rights to Jurassic Park. You will not see it on any of the
above mentioned channels (or at least not until the time period of the NBC
agreement ends).
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Internet: lor...@cv.hp.com