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Are you ready for 2011? Not the first part, the latter part. That's when FX is going to have all of your favorite blockbuster movies from the past few months. According to Variety, FX has secured rights to show X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Taken, The Wrestler, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Marley and Me. Variety also points out that it takes about 30 months for films to go from the big screen to television in these kinds of deals.

So, if you can keep from seeing them in the theater, or on DVD, or on demand from whichever cable system you subscribe to, on Netflix or Blockbuster, or from one of the torrents these scofflaw kids are into these days, you can see it for free on FX!

Sarcasm aside, that is an impressive slate of movies, especially when you consider the other movies the article says FX has picked up - Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Baby Mama, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Hancock, and Kung Fu Panda. All high profile movies, with varying degrees of appeal. There are a number of those I would watch, or have watched, on demand or on Netflix. But whenever I see a movie on any channel that might edit it in any way or show commercials, I pass.

Maybe I've become spoiled by all of the other options, but I can't watch movies like that anymore, when I would have thought nothing of watching my favorite movies on network TV as a kid. (The exception, despite criticism on another post, is FEARnet, which throws a commercial or two in with its on demand features. Still love free goofy horror flicks I often wouldn't be looking for if they weren't in the on demand list).

So the question for you folks is, do you still watch movies on basic cable or network TV? With all of the other options I just listed, will you still sit for a movie you really love if it happens to come on a non-premium station?