Posts tagged 80s

Okay, I’ve learned my lesson. Never again will I watch a movie on the TV Guide Channel.

First of all: A movie? On the TV Guide Channel? Yeah, I too was surprised when TiVo came up with that. But sure enough, they show movies on the TV Guide channel. Which means that the movie appears in a weird little upper-two-thirds letterbox, while the bottom of the screen shows a rolling grid that says “Here’s a bunch of BETTER stuff you could be watching!”

Second, and more important: There are some things you DO NOT DO when showing movies on TV. Foremost is, you DO NOT show Some Kind of Wonderful and cut out the closing credits, or cover them with a promo for another program. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT DONE.

There is a way this is supposed to happen. a RIGHT way this is supposed to happen:

(SPOILER WARNING if you’ve been in a coma since 1987)

• Keith gives Watts the diamond earrings he got back from Amanda.
  
  
• Watts says, “How do they look?”
  
  
• Keith says, “You look good wearing my future.”
  
  
• Meanwhile, Lick the Tins have started their heartfelt and beautiful cover of “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which plays out until the very end of the credits.
  
  
• Watts and Keith walk away down the street. Together.
  
  
• I wipe something out of the corner of my eye, and growl at no one in particular: “What? No, I am NOT crying. That’s stupid. Shut up.”

That is how it is done. Every time this movie is shown. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE. TV Guide Channel, you are on notice.