How much did I miss?

[GulPlum]

faura2002 wrote:

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> Me, too. My friends and I entered the theater when the previous 
> showing was about to end, hoping to catch the surprise after the 
end 
> credits [we were watching the last full show and afraid the cinema 
> might cut it] but we never got to see it because it was cut! 
likewise 
> with the last show! So now I'm scouting for a better cinema, hmmmp!

I would suggest you contact Warner Brothers (see their main website). 
I don't know what the situation is in America, but here in the UK it 
is against distribution contracts for a cinema to cut *anything* from 
a film without the distributor's knowledge. Of course, accidents 
happen and equipment can fail, but what you're describing sounds like 
a deliberate action by the cinema. 

Yeah, I know most cinemas accept that most people don't stay for the 
credits, and I've yet to watch as film at any cinema without the 
lights being brought up before they end, but the cinema is 
contractually obliged to show them, even if nobody's left to watch 
them. I'm one of these film fans who usually stay until the end of 
the credits every time and I'm almost invariably the only person left 
in the cinema, and on occasion I've had reason to talk to management 
about it.

A couple of side notes: 

At one of the CoS showings I attended, I left the auditorium at the 
beginning of the credits to take a desperate child to the toilet, and 
had a chat with the cinema manager. He jokingly told me that news 
about the "extra scene" was clearly getting around, as audiences were 
increasingly staying until the end. :-)

I wish Columbus & Co took a lesson from the new Bond film: despite 
having just as long a list for the end credits, they took about a 
third of the time of the CoS ones due to the way they were designed. 
Even I found sitting through the CoS (and PS/SS) ones utterly tedious 
and there really was no reason for them to last *quite* that long.