I do as I feel it's a good way to know who's gonna be in them, plus I don't recognize the actors as easily as I used to in the more recent movies as most of my favorite movies are from the 1980's/1990's.
shareI do notice that in old movies that most of the credits are at the beginning. I just watched Rear Window a few days ago and there were no credits at the end. Just the studio logo. Modern movies have like 10 minutes of closing credits.
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Bertrand Bonello's The Beast (2023) has a QR code instead of end credits. If you want to read the credits, you can scan the code or look them up online afterwards. I don't think filmmakers would be allowed to do that in the USA. Credits got longer because of union rules, and were placed at the end of the film instead of the beginning precisely because they'd become too long.
But I too prefer brief credits -- or even a nicely designed title sequence to set the tone -- at the beginning of a movie and just a simple 'The End' at the end. With modern technology, we don't really need extensive credits on the film itself. No-one reads them. No-one cares who the second grip or deputy catering chief were except for them and their mothers.
Perhaps QR codes are the way forward. But someone will have to negotiate with the unions in Hollywood.
QR codes? I guess that is a sign of the times, but sometimes opening or closing credits can be a great part of a film.
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I fast forward until the director's name appears.
shareI love it. It's great to pump you up before the film starts and to get a good tone of what's to come.
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