Something I've seen that just really rubs me the wrong way:

How, when a movie is shown on TV, they just speed through the credits now. It's like they're saying "Here's all the people who were in and made this move, but they aren't important enough to bother seeing."

Just sort of rude, you know?

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You've never left the cinema when the credits started rolling?

No. I don't consider a movie over until it's over. Plus, I feel I owe the people who made the movie at least enough respect to acknowledge them.

It's just the way I am. Someone makes something I enjoy and I want to see who it was, even if the names mean nothing to me.

Plus, some movies have stuff after the credits.

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It's a nice gesture in theory, but there's no way you're going to remember all those names. Who did the catering for The Avengers?

However, I will stay and watch the credits if there's some epic music playing over them.

No one is suggesting that you should try to remember the names, Dalek, but if there's a particular aspect of filmmaking that interests you, you may well start to recognize names after a while, if they consistently show up in films you enjoyed.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

But in the age of the Internet, you don't really need to watch a film's credits to do that.

Sure, you can look them up in IMDB, once you know who they are.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

IMDB has full credits lists, if i recall correctly.

So you could look for who did the principal photography, click on their name and voila.

Personally, I like to stay through the credits because there's often a stinger at the end of them these days, plus I like to see the part where it shows all the music and songs they used. And to look out for funny names in the more obscure portions of the credits.

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Some channels don't even bother with the speeding through where I am. They show the cast and that's it.

For we shall slay evil with logic...

I don't usually stay for the credits unless my ride is late. Sometimes I will if the soundtrack is particularly good. If I want to know the specifics, I Google it.

Isn't it legally required that all credits need to be shown, though?

You're not even concerned about missing post-credits scenes?

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Sometimes it IS required that the credits get shown in their entirety. It all depends on what kind of deal is struck when rights are acquired by TV networks to show movies. The rushed credits, as well as rushed credits shoved into a split-screen window, are how networks work around having to show the complete credits. Some directors are able to insist that the credits get shown at normal speed, in their entirety, but not all directors have that kind of pull (and, of course, some don't care all that much). The deals are usually struck by the production companies, with little input from the creative people.

Plus there's the fact that few people actually care who worked on a project other than the main actors and director. And if they're REALLY interested to see who worked on a movie, they're more likely to look it up on the web or contact the company directly.

Same goes with videogames. Notice how many games just jump back to the title screen as soon as the final cinematic is over, or quickly point out that you can skip the upcoming credits?

Sometimes I'll stay, if I'm confident there's a post-credits stinger.

Sometimes we just dick around until the movie is over. You learn a lot of things by looking through the credits.

For example, Zombieland had a crew member with the seriously amazing name of Juicy Wang.

That's hilarious.

I feel like gamers are more likely to go through the credits than movie watchers, though. Dunno why, but in my observation, far more people keep the credits going for video games than for movies.

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Credits take up time, and time is money. If you show the whole credits reel then you're wasting broadcasting time on something that people don't watch and which isn't being sold as ad space.

That's how the theory goes, anyway.

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

But iMDB has all the credits anyway

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It's especially apparent in movies like the film adaptation of The Spirit, where the credits is about 10 minutes long.

You wanna sit and read through a whole credits list? Fine. More power to you. But the average joe has already changed the channel by the time the credits roll, so it makes sense for TV channels to just speed through them. Leaves more room for movies in the long run.

Personally, the only movie sub-genre that I've sat through the credits for has been the comic book superhero genre, mainly because they all have post-credits stingers nowadays. Hell, to put it into perspective, I actually got chewed out by the staff of my nearest movie theater because I was sitting through the credits of The Avengers when everyone else had already left.

It is a point that now, with a a lot of movies having a lot of CGI, that the credits have actually gotten much, much longer. I remember that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow had credits that were something like 20 minutes long.

Cinemas are pushing screenings closer and closer together, which means the staff have less and less time to clean up between cinemas, so they start cleaning during the credits. Still very unprofessional to chew someone out for staying though.

I can't actually remember a post-credits bit that was worth the wait, to be honest. The Marvel superhero movie ones were ... mildly entertaining and the one for the Dawn of the Dead remake was annoying and I can't remember any others. If I miss them, it's no big deal. If it was that important a scene, it should have been in the body of the film, so I'm not missing anything.

You know what IMDB doesn't have? The credits music.

It's half the reason I stay to watch the credits.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...

At least during action movies, I really enjoy walking out during the credits. That's 'cause there's usually some epic sounding music playing during them, and walking down that hallway out of the theatre while that music plays behind me makes me feel all badass.

edited 5th Oct '12 11:51:31 PM by RavenWilder

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@disruptorfe: Understandable, but here's a detail I forgot to mention: while the whole movie theater was still open, I was in the last showing for the particular room I was in. So no excuse.

(English Language, why the bloody hell does "theater" refer to both the entire building and each individual room inside it?)