Remember the good ol' days when movies like Mothra & Rodan were on tv regularly?

[AndyC]

That was how I cultivated my taste in movies, when these great oldies - some good, some bad in a good way - were appearing late at night, Sunday afternoon and sometimes even in prime time. Basically any time there was a two-hour block to fill and not much money to fill it. I think the biggest problem is that independent TV stations are pretty much history at this point. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find our kind of movies anywhere but on specialty channels. It's all network programming, and the slow hours are sold off in blocks for infomercials. The decline of independent TV (which also killed locally-produced shows) and the rise of infomercials pretty much ruined it.

As someone mentioned, these movies are now more available than they've ever been, but a lot of kids are going to lose out on that introduction of sitting down on a rainy Saturday afternoon when not much is on, and just finding something they didn't know they should be looking for.

[Allhallowsday]

I remember watching many GODZILLA movies in the 1970s... I remember MOTHRA, RODAN, GAMERA, GHIDRA and ASPYGA ("a big ugly spider!").  There used to be Creature Feature Saturday afternoons (at noon out of New York I think) and most of the networks showed movies on weekend afternoons... fond memories of another time.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ftdWpA7D0chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_rWm_u2oQQ

[WingedSerpent]

I also miss the badmovie show hosts.  If Dogget was still around he'd be talking about Elvira.  I remember Big Chuck and Little John and the Son of Ghoul-local celbrities.

[JaseSF]

Yeah informercials seem to have killed off a late of the typical late-night TV viewing too which back in the day was when tons of great old Horror and Sci-Fi movies used to air. Caught numerous films from the 50s-70s in that fashion for the first time...there was something magical to staying up late at night, chomping popcorn and watching stuff like The Brain From Planet Arous, Journey to the Seventh Planet, The Angry Red Planet, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed for just some of the ones I recall first watching in that fashion.

Horror hosts are still out there - moreso in the U.S. than here in Canada. Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia is very entertaining and I highly recommend it if you can access it. Me, I can only see his show via DVD where I live so yeah, he has those out there too.

[Vik]

Man I'm only seventeen  I wish I was born in those days, I like everything from the past way better then now, the movies, the music ...

[Allhallowsday]

Man I'm only seventeen   I wish I was born in those days, I like everything from the past way better then now, the movies, the music ...

There is some good music nowadays, but I think we'd agree it's not always easy to find.  I am old enough to at least be your ... older brother (  ) and I have to agree with you about the movies, the music, and goshdarnit we even had great TV that was free and we didn't even realize it!  

[Vik]

Man I'm only seventeen   I wish I was born in those days, I like everything from the past way better then now, the movies, the music ...

There is some good music nowadays, but I think we'd agree it's not always easy to find.  I am old enough to at least be your ... older brother (  ) and I have to agree with you about the movies, the music, and goshdarnit we even had great TV that was free and we didn't even realize it!  

Indeed, the cartoons and stuff were so much better in the old days, now it's all ... crap. And about the music, all it seems to be nowadays is Techno, electro and stuff. No more Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, ...

[Allhallowsday]

Indeed, the cartoons and stuff were so much better in the old days, now it's all ... crap. And about the music, all it seems to be nowadays is Techno, electro and stuff. No more Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, ...

I have all of those artists in my collection (except BS) but we do have nowadays AMY WINEHOUSE and BECK and BJORK... there is some very fine modern music, it's just few and far between.   

[Vik]

Indeed, the cartoons and stuff were so much better in the old days, now it's all ... crap. And about the music, all it seems to be nowadays is Techno, electro and stuff. No more Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, ...

I have all of those artists in my collection (except BS) but we do have nowadays AMY WINEHOUSE and BECK and BJORK... there is some very fine modern music, it's just few and far between.   

I miss the past and I wasn't even there