Credits

[bara]

Specifically those at the beginning of a movie.

Just flash the title so that I know I am in the right theater and then get with the movie.
Its bad enough I now have to watch commercials, really, put the credits at the where they belong and leave them there. I really dont care about all the details. Many people dont.

[Gravekeeper]

I really dont care about all the details. Many people dont.

The people that just spent 1-2 years of their life creating all the details do. -.-

[Andara Bledin]

I love opening credits, myself.

Closing credits, too.

I really good opening title sequence can really set the mood of a movie if done properly.

^-.-^

[Ginger Tea]

Starwars being the only one to not have intro credits really pissed off the unions and other Movie industry bits, people walk out at the credits (sometimes there is a good stinger (is that the right term) but is it worth holding a piss for?) I don't read them if the music is good I stick around, I did for the first Saw and was ready to wee in a corner as I was that busting but I loved the score.
I agree with too long being bad, the first batman when it turns out we are not in a sewer or something but the batlogo was nice (and you got the theme), others its name one, loooooong pausse, name 2 rinse and repeat.

the union thingie I think is why alot of TV shows (least the American imports) have a cold opening then credit segment, as you don't know how long the opening will be so you cant just say, oh its started but its just the credits I can turn over later, or come into the room after a pee, it's already started and someone has just died in an explosion, now its the credits, but do I want to get up for a piss now, now that someone just blew up?

Edit:
The found footage genre also forgo opening credits as they would spoil the 'atmosphere' of this being real events caught on film, but outside of them I can only think of Starwars as movies with a creditless intro

[SkullKing]

I will also say that there is a fair number of people who decides if they will watch a movie based on the opening credits, when they are browsing channels.

"Oh, this movie has actor X and director Y, I like their movies."

[AdminAssistant]

I'm guessing that there are all kinds of rules with the opening credits from copyrights, contracts, unions, etc. that determine who gets listed, what order they get listed in, and, to a certain extent, the font size. It is annoying when a movie comes on TV and I'm wondering what it is, and have to wait forever for the movie title to pop up.

[lordlundar]

Starwars being the only one to not have intro credits really pissed off the unions and other Movie industry bits, people walk out at the credits (sometimes there is a good stinger (is that the right term) but is it worth holding a piss for?) I don't read them if the music is good I stick around, I did for the first Saw and was ready to wee in a corner as I was that busting but I loved the score.
I agree with too long being bad, the first batman when it turns out we are not in a sewer or something but the batlogo was nice (and you got the theme), others its name one, loooooong pausse, name 2 rinse and repeat.

the union thingie I think is why alot of TV shows (least the American imports) have a cold opening then credit segment, as you don't know how long the opening will be so you cant just say, oh its started but its just the credits I can turn over later, or come into the room after a pee, it's already started and someone has just died in an explosion, now its the credits, but do I want to get up for a piss now, now that someone just blew up?

Edit:
The found footage genre also forgo opening credits as they would spoil the 'atmosphere' of this being real events caught on film, but outside of them I can only think of Starwars as movies with a creditless intro

Yup. The Screen Actors Guild has a standing condition for all their members that if they have a speaking role in a TV show or a major part, in a show or film, they MUST have their name up at the opening. The Star Wars films are the only ones to not have it since the condition went through and it was a hell of a fight to get it.

[HYHYBT]

the union thingie I think is why alot of TV shows (least the American imports) have a cold opening then credit segment, as you don't know how long the opening will be so you cant just say, oh its started but its just the credits I can turn over later, or come into the room after a pee, it's already started and someone has just died in an explosion, now its the credits, but do I want to get up for a piss now, now that someone just blew up?

No, it's because doing away with the opening yields another commercial or two.

[telecom_goddess]

Just be glad it's not like the old days with movies when they used to do all the credits in the beginning and at the end just have "the end" and that was it. They started shifting that around in the 1970s I believe.

[SongsOfDragons]

My favourite opening credits has to be Disney's Robin Hood. ...Were they even credits? Or a Dramatis Personae? O.o

Closing credits I do find really boring if it's just names after names and music. I want something visual. Iron Man's was good with the blueprints; but Sherlock Holmes has to be EPIC with all the quickfire pen and ink drawings exploding into life. Wonderful!!

Also Housemate and I said that loooooong ending credits are great sources for name ideas. ^^

[Andara Bledin]

The closing credits for the Harry Potter movie with the marauders' map were gorgeous.

^-.-^

[Hyena Dandy]

Credits have to be there. And a lot of people put a lot ofhard work into creating something. A movie, a game, a TV show... I think that they deserve recognition.

What I DO hate is when they don't give me anything INTERESTING with the credits. When it's just names on a black screen. A good credits sequence can, for me, honestly really propel a movie to the next level.

If it weren't for the song and the AMAZING credits sequence, I would probably not really remember much about the Captain America movie.

As it is, I don't remember TOO much, but I remember two things (three with the post-credits scene.) And one of them is the credits.

[Gravekeeper]

The closing credits for the Harry Potter movie with the marauders' map were gorgeous.

Ah...isn't that the closing credits where the map shows 2 students getting it on in a corner? >.>

[Racket_Man]

What I DO hate is when they don't give me anything INTERESTING with the credits. When it's just names on a black screen. A good credits sequence can, for me, honestly really propel a movie to the next level.

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This is one of the reasons I love CGI or animated movies. back when Pixar/Disney first started doing movies they used to put together a montoage of "staged bloopers" while the end credits were rolling. sometimes these were funnier than some of the gags in the actual movie.

Now no one does this anymore

The closing credits for the Harry Potter movie with the marauders' map were gorgeous.
^-.-^

That was Prisoner of Azaband

The best of the HP movies was not the ending credits at the end of Chamber of Secrets but the VERY end where they showed a poster of Lockhart in a straight jacket with the title of "Who Am I?"

That said I wish they had put something at the end of Deathly Hallows II Thanking all of the loyal fans who make the franchise a total sucess.