Post #336615 by Cammo on Fri, Oct 5, 2007 9:21 AM

Kate, we pulled the TV cable out of our wall about 10 years ago and haven't looked back since. We just rent great movies instead; I keep a want list going, and it never seems to dry up. It's actually cheaper than cable, and way more satisfying. We haven't seen a commercial in a decade. Good riddance.

Don't give in to network TV. If the series is good, it'll come out on DVD faster than a monkey on a greased slide. Just rent it. I've seen the better "Monk" episodes that way. (A lot of stuff is at our main library - it's free!)

Just rent really really greats, here's what I've seen recently -

• The "Prisoner" TV show (the first 6 episodes are probably the best things made for TV, ever)

• "Desk Set" (all time best dialogue, written by Nora Ephron's parents!)

• "His Girl Friday" (fastest dialogue ever filmed)

• "Swing Time" (amazing musical, people don't even know it exists)

• "Kansas City Confidantial" (litte seen noir, toughest movie I've ever seen)

• All the Elvis movies (Teri Garr dances really badly in the backgrounds, she actually trips and misses cues, and bumps into people, she's just plain awful, it's funny as heck)

• "Cabin in the Sky" (creepy and hilarious at the same time, an excellent, offbeat Halloween pick)

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (sci-fi noir, with all kinds of themes running through it)

etc....