You may recall the Weather Channel’s move to show weather-related movies on Friday nights, starting with The Perfect Storm last week. And as you can see from this clip where the network interrupts the film’s climactic scene with a poorly-timed commercial break, the people at the Weather Channel are not yet experts at showing movies. In case you’re unfamiliar with the movie [SPOILER ALERT], this is the part where the brave fishermen go up against the giagntic wave and they all die. And someone thought, “Hey, why not insert some commercials in the middle of the movie’s most important and dramatic scene?” C’mon guys. This isn’t today’s high temperatures in the Midwest.

Side note: you know what channel’s a real dick about showing movies? Spike. They’ll show something awesome like Kill Bill and put almost no commercials in the first hour to suck you in. And they gradually cut to commercial more and more frequently throughout the movie, so the final three scenes take like 45 minutes. Die in a fire, Spike. I’ve got HBO.

[kottke]