Movie 7pt1: a new take on "credits"

[Beatrice23]

While I agree that credits are "as long as a phone book and as interesting."  I do think that those involved deserve to be acknowledged, even if most viewers don't view/enjoy the credits.  

In my view, it isn't the credits that are really an issue to the "run time" of the film.  The run time of the film actually includes the 20-30 minutes of previews at the beginning of the film.  So if we are looking to make more room for more HP screen time, why not delete three to four of the tedious previews for films that nobody really wants to see.  Seriously, there were about 10 previews before HP7.1 (no I didn't count, so if you did feel free to correct me) and not one of those films were anything that I would consider spending an $11 admission on.  Or here's an idea if you have to have previews, why not run them in the half an hour before the film begins to give people who arrive early something to do other than find spelling errors on the "slide" adverts and trivia.  My husband and I found at least 6.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "CK Campbell" <ckc at ...> wrote:
>
>  
> You know, you could take away all those credits, and the people who make the
> movie will not make the movie 2-3 scenes longer no matter what.    I don't
> know why you think they would.
> 
> As for looking them up in imdb, not everyone has access to or desire to use
> a computer.  It reminds me of newspaper articles that say "for more
> information visit [name of website]."  The newspaper exists to give me that
> information; if wanted to visit the site, I wouldn't get the newspaper in
> the first place.
> 
> I happen to enjoy those credits.  In the theater.  With the ushers sweeping
> up around me or not.
> 
> CK
>