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[LL Moonmanhead]

I only watch tv occasionally, but whenever i do one of the movie channels is invariably showing either Mummy 1 or Mummy 2.

Is there a movie that is repeated more on korean tv?!?! Surely there can't be!

[amberflannery]

lol, i know. its always on!

that and the episode of the simpsons where homer gets drunk at their party and marge makes him go to marriage counseling.

[JongnoGuru]

Why don't you go out and rent (or preferably buy) the DVD of the orignal The Mummy, 1932, starring Boris Karloff? I haven't watched it in so long that I've decided that's what I'll be doing tonight. Yay! And thank you.



Before Korea had cable TV, we had the regular 3 or 4 Korean channels and AFKN in English. AFKN just loved showing The Sand Pebbles, 1966, starring Steve McQueen, as their late-late-late movie on weekends. It was beyond the point of insanity. God, how many times have I watched that damn film. Drunken.

[laogaiguk]

I still like the cat scene. Other than that, I just throw something else into the DVD player.

They do like to show it though...

[Boodleheimer]

Boris Karloff is the MAN!! rumour has it he did it all with one little make-up kit and his rubbery face. i also adore Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in their '50s horror films.

and Boris did the voice in the original Grinch!

[JongnoGuru]

[oneofthesarahs]

[amberflannery]

really?? i havent seen it on. i do keep cetching the same couple episodes of dark angel and kings of construction though.

[crystal]

True Lies

It's on again right now, it was ok the first time I saw it but now I just want to throw things at the TV every time it comes on. Why oh why can't they find something original to show??

[amberflannery]

i'm pretty stoked that flavor of love is on its so trashy, but i love it!

[ella]

[Corporal]

Starship Troopers. Legally Blonde.

[shifter2009]

[ella]

I love "Legally Blonde." Every girl at my university was Elle Woods. All of them. Even me. (That was a long time ago.)

[JongnoGuru]

175 Gawddamn Channels and There's Nothing On! ? Is that what you're all crying about? Or are you griping about the crappy movie selection on KBS, MBC & SBS? I don't really know, because...


Since arriving in the Republic, I've had:

-- a year or so of nothing at all

-- then a TV and that was it for about a year

-- then a big-ass satellite dish setup that was already in a place where I moved

-- then cable for a few years

And then at one point my life here became one big, ongoing game of Musical Houses. Buy, rebuild, sell or rent, move out & buy again. Since that time, I've had cable TV for less than one year total, it was around 2000 or early 2001. There was no point, I was rarely home to watch it, rarely watched it when I was home, and wasn't at one address long enough to do even a one-year contract.

For news, I read the papers, the net, listen to the radio in English & Korean. For entertainment, I have music, movies on DVD, the theatre, play with my portfolio, and drink.

Then things slowed down, about a year and a half ago. For the first time in living memory, I spent two Christmases under the same roof. And my girlfriend has been bugging me since last year to get cable, so I finally gave in. Had it connected last Wednesday and since then I have watched a grand total of, oh... 2 hours? And that was mostly news and channel-surfing, just seeing what's on.

So, what channels are you all biatching about that play Mummy 1, Mummy 2, Blade 3, Matrix and Legally Blonde all the time? The Big 3 broadcasters or the flukey cable movie channels? If the latter, then I'd say you people got crap deals. You were cheated. Hoodwinked. Rooked to a fair-thee-well.