I thought I’d watch ‘The Matrix’ trilogy offered on AMC, the channel where "story matters", without interruption. For the first time, not missing a thing by turning away from commercials and not getting back in time to pick up the show were it left off, and so I did.
What a bunch of crap!
My feeling is that slightly more time was allotted to the chopped without conscience, Matrix footage, than was allotted to normal commercial advertisement, and of the commercial time given to pecker pills, pumps & suckers, even more commercial time left me subjected to the most ghastly display of academics contribution to ethics, forget common decency.
Every cheap trick, used to exploit the fearful followers, in every demographic and market, the ads between the moments of footage were mostly flashy, sometimes almost subliminal. Whatever, ‘the on screen hypes’ for the new big deal, "The Prisoner", are mere psycho-trash. There was no way to follow the story of The Matrix but if you didn’t change channels, you were watching the kind of shit our institutes of higher learning are turning out!
"That’s where the money is." "Feed the Greed." "Get a job with a fear machine."
So I came away from the AMC presentation of The Matrix, ‘ Reloaded‘, and ‘Revolutions‘, resenting the continual interference offered by AMC at my expense about some new old show, ‘The Prisoner’, redone on behalf of ad revenues, only this time less openly, more predatory.
I will not tune into AMC again for anything, and your best can’t change my mind.
