Hey, everybody...I'm brand-new to these boards (as in, I registered about a half hour ago). I wanted to join the conversation because, yeah, I'm another one of those people who's been sitting in front of his TV irate every time I see TCM schedule a movie from the 80s/90s/00s.
Here's my take: It's really less a qualitative issue (i.e, what constitutes a "classic") than it is an temporal issue. I mean, why in the world is TCM showing stuff like A Beautiful Mind (tonight), The Holiday (earlier this week) and AI: Artificial Intelligence (a month or so ago), just to name a few? People can disa