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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Excuse you, but it is not the same difference. If it was, then it would have been at the end of the credits. Joss Whedon specifically said that Age of Ultron doesn't have a post-credits scene because people would be expecting something that topped the shawarma scene from the first Avengers, which is a ridiculous reason to my mind.
It's hard to top the schwarma scene.
Guardians pulled it off with Howard the Duck and Cosmo, but how do you top Howard the Duck and Cosmo?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Excuse you, but it is not the same difference. If it was, then it would have been at the end of the credits.
The fact that the scene came in the mid-credits makes no difference. It could have easily been the post-credits scene and then there would have been no mid-credits scene.
edited 13th Oct '15 10:58:34 AM by alliterator
Which is exactly the point I'm trying to make. I don't need there to be a mid-credits scene. Those have only been a regular feature since Thor: The Dark World. But every movie pre-Age of Ultron except The Incredible Hulk has something at the very end of the credits, and in Hulk's case it's just Early-Installment Weirdness that it doesn't.
It felt like Avengers 2 didn't have one for no real reason at all, and it's disappointing that the tradition was broken for such a non-reason.
edited 13th Oct '15 11:04:04 AM by BadWolf21
i don't think we're entitled to a silly end credits scene
Its a fun bonus
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's always possible that Joss couldn't think of anything good to put at the end of the credits, and didn't want to make audiences wait until the end to see Thanos.
Oh God! Natural light!The Thanos scene was disappointing either way. "yeay, he finally left his chair! His legs work!"
You know what they should have done? Showing a stack of the daily bugle with an article about Sokovia and then suddenly some webbing shots at it from off-screen and pulls one newspaper away. It wouldn't have been exactly news or anything, but it would have been a nice little tease.
edited 13th Oct '15 11:38:35 AM by Swanpride
His script has already getting approved by the studio. So he certainly knows what will happen in Got G Vol 2. Infinity war...nobody knows what will happen there until the script are written, and the writers have been busy with Civil war and Agent Carter season 2.
You know what they should have done? Showing a stack of the daily bugle with an article about Sokovia and then suddenly some webbing shots at it from off-screen and pulls one newspaper away. It wouldn't have been exactly news or anything, but it would have been a nice little tease.
Filming was already done by the time the agreement was finished, so there was no way to insert that into the film, unless they just rushed it through. Which I don't think they wanted to do.
The plot-important Stinger was moved to the mid-credits so that people wouldn't have to wait all the way through the credits. It's still there, it's just earlier.
A silly bit of humor to reward people for sitting all the way through the credits is neat and harkens back to what Stingers originally were for, but is hardly mandatory. We don't need two Stingers every film, and I'd hate to see the important one pushed back to the end of the credits again.
edited 13th Oct '15 11:42:18 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'd much rather see the important one pushed to the end of the credits again.
You should really be sitting through the credits of movies anyway. A lot of people worked very hard to make sure you could see that film, and the least you can do is watch their names scroll by on the screen for 10 minutes.
You should really be sitting through the credits of movies anyway. A lot of people worked very hard to make sure you could see that film, and the least you can do is watch their names scroll by on the screen for 10 minutes.
The last person I saw make that same speech was a prima donna director in an episode of Entourage. That should tell you something.
The lessen is: the audience doesn't owe anybody anything. If they want to immediately get up because they have to go pee really badly, then they should be able to do that without guilt. Sitting through credits is not mandatory. The post-credits stinger was always used more as a fun easter egg. Even in the original Avengers, the mid-credits scene was Thanos and the post-credits scene was a joke.
edited 13th Oct '15 11:50:07 AM by alliterator
"Sure is a bunch of names I'm looking at scrolling on a screen. Don't think I'm going to retain any of this. -funny stinger thing- Now I'm definitely not going to retain any of that previous text. What even is text?"
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMost people who sit through credits don't actually read the credits. At the speed the credits scroll, that's a largely insurmountable task anyway. That period of time is typically spent quietly discussing the movie, checking one's phone, and/or impatiently trying to think of things to think about until the Stinger gets here.
If someone's really bored, they might glance at the credits looking for funny names or jobs, but that's about it.
edited 13th Oct '15 11:51:59 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

edited 13th Oct '15 10:31:27 AM by Kostya