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 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 8:30 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

On Empire Movie Magazine`s Facebook discussion board one guy asks who stay during the end credit sequence. As a fan of film music I tend to stay because I want to listen to the music. And by the way I think a movie is not over until the end credits is over. Apparently I am one of the few who does think that I should not go right away when the end credits starts rolling. One guy who said he used to work at the cinemas wanted everyone to go as quick as possible because they want to clean as fast as they can so they can leave for home as fast as possible. One other guy said that I should leave the cinema as fast as I can and instead of sitting through to listen to the music during the end credits I should go home and look it up on Spotify instead.

So how do you do, stay or sit through the end credits? And why do you do as you do? Do you agree with me or agree with the two other people I mentioned?

 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 8:40 AM   
 By:   GreatGonzo   (Member)

Stay, always to the very end. Always. And I make family and friends stay if they go with me. Have a reputation because of this, as a matter of fact.

If the music's great, when else am I gonna hear it blasted through multi-channel cinema speakers? Plus I read the end credits while I'm there, often confounding people when I cough up minor casting trivia late - "How did you know that?"

Some people can't watch without popcorn because to them, that's an integral part of the moviegoing experience. I feel the same way about staying through the end credits.

While I can understand that the ushers etc. want me gone to start cleaning (I'm in retail, and I know how it feels when that last customer just won't leave), I most likely get to see a movie on the big screen in its entirety only once. Once!

So I stay.

 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 9:41 AM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

In the 90s, when I went A LOT to the movies, I stayed if the music was good, but otherwise I left because I didn't really want to be the only person left in the theatre. :-D

I also think it's a shame that most TV channels end the film before the end credits have ended. In Norway I think the only channel not doing that is the national broadcasting, but they minimize the rolling screen a lot so they can list the forthcoming programs at the right part of the screen. Nonsense!

 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 11:18 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

As a film fan and film music fan I always stayed thru to the end credits. There was a time when I knew all the talent in the industry and I wanted to know who worked on the film I just saw.

I also waited with baited breath for the very last credit on the screen, " Soundtrack available on records and Cassette". Of course by the 80's you couldn't trust that blurb anymore because a lot of films with that credit never saw a soundtrack release. Seems it was just cut and pasted onto every end credits back then.

I understand the theater staff wants to clean up as soon as possible. I guess they have to wait for every last patron to leave. I really don't mind if they cleaned up while I sat thru the end credits.

 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 12:38 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Staying during end credits? Well, if there's no more grub looming, if i've had my coffee and naughties, i tend to say goodnight and shoot home, with a passing promise to be round for another dvd next week! big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 1:25 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I always stay through the end credits. For one thing, so many of the superhero and franchise films have post-credit sequences, that you miss out on all these teasers if you don't stay. (The one on CAPTAIN MARVEL earlier this year was particularly good.) And since I almost exclusively attend matinees, I know the clean-up crew isn't in any rush to get home.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 1:57 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Depends. If the music is great, I might sit through. And if it's likely to be a post-credit sequence, for example (like those Marvel things). But if the music is shit, and the film is just a run-of-the-mill blockbuster that has made no impression on me; or any desire to contemplate what I've seen, I leave early.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 3:05 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I always stay until Ferris tells me to go home and makes me feel ashamed.

 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2019 - 3:13 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Long before the MCU goaded fans to stay for a last-minute Credit Cookie, I was always sitting through the end titles of movies. It really annoys me when I see people start to get up, gather their coats, and exit the second the credits start, or even when the movie looks like it's about to end. mad Of course, whenever I see a movie with someone else, I always let them know I'm sticking through to the very end, so they can go to the bathroom and wait for me in the theater foyer.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 12:29 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

Great, I am not alone when it comes to want to sit through the end credits. Over at the Empire Facebook forum I not only got the feeling that I am the only one who does it but also that it is a bad thing to do. So thanks for making me not feel like I am the only one who does this.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 1:46 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Staying during end credits? Well, if there's no more grub looming, if i've had my coffee and naughties, i tend to say goodnight and shoot home, with a passing promise to be round for another dvd next week! big grin


Heh - I think the kids call that Netflix and Chill!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 2:42 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Heh - I think the kids call that Netflix and Chill!

Well, actually that's also become somewhat of a 'pickup phrase' in recent times, like the ancient "Do you want to go back to my place and check out my stamp collection?". big grin

 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 2:49 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

You had a stamp collection??!!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 3:25 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

You had a stamp collection??!!

Bought with the proceeds of selling his etchings, no doubt.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 3:53 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

Well I have a huge key chain collection. I have over 4000 of them.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 5:10 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Being a bit of a film nerd I used to, but then things got really silly, ten minutes of tens of thousands of names (esp. with an effects heavy film). It's not even worth staying on for the music, it starts off with a pop song, then a suite of themes from the film put together by the music editor, & then that peters out & the last three minutes all those thousands of names roll up in silence. Is there some sort of law or rule that they have all these names? Mind you, I only go to the cinema about once a year these days, so do you sit through them all at home? I might do if I'm comfortable & can't lay my hand on the remote, the credits could go to the end, but I'll probably be asleep by then.

 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 6:23 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Well I have a huge key chain collection. I have over 4000 of them.

I am sure that "Would you like to come back and see my huge key chain collection" meant an endless stream of totty leaving your digs late at night??! smile

 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 9:43 AM   
 By:   Col. Flagg   (Member)

Stay, always to the very end. Always. And I make family and friends stay if they go with me. Have a reputation because of this, as a matter of fact.

If the music's great, when else am I gonna hear it blasted through multi-channel cinema speakers? Plus I read the end credits while I'm there, often confounding people when I cough up minor casting trivia late - "How did you know that?"


This.

I blame it partly on Williams, Goldsmith and their rarified ilk, who forty years ago trained me that credits were worth sitting through if they were in charge. These days I do it largely to honour the work of my peers.

 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 9:56 AM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

Starting with the Star Trek films, I always stayed for the end credits. Then again, a 5 minute credit roll listening to James Horner is nothing like today's 10 plus minutes....

 
 Posted:   Apr 29, 2019 - 10:39 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

As a teenager in the 1970s i was usually recording the end credits with my cassette player but i get out of sitting through credits now because i dont go to the cinema! There simply isnt anything appealing enough that might entice me to the point that i cant wait for it to come on sky in 6 months time. And i never sit thru credits at home.

 
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