Should Cinemas Let The Audience Know If A Film Has Scenes After The End Credits?

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sweetjan20

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More films these days have a scene tacked on to the end of the end credits yet as soon as the first credit appers there is a mass exodus from the cinema like a two minute bomb warning has gone off! So would it be an idea to put a message on screen before a film starts saying something like " Please note there is an additional scene after the end credits" to make the audience aware that there is something more at the end if they can sit through the 8 mins of credits. I have stayed before if i know there is something more at the end and usually there is about three people left! Do you think more people would hang around if they knew there was another scene at the end? Apparently Wolverine has a scene after the credits. i did not know and I left when the credits were running. How many times have you seen people halfway out when outakes appear halfway through and everyone freezes to the spot in the ailes? Im sure there could be a message screen put on prints just before the film starts.
 
Maybe the cinema should also put a sign up ten minutes into the movie saying "The film don't get any better than this" so that people aren't tempted to watch a further 90 minutes of crap similar to what occurs at the start of the film?
 
It only ever seems to happen in comic book movies, and then it's only like a little treat for the die-hard comic book fans. Plus, in my cinema they're pretty good with it, as the lights don't come back on, and that's how you know there's an extra scene.
 
I thought the idea was for you to sit through the credits anyway to appreciate all the hard work that's gone into the film?

Or am i just being romantic?
 
LOL, I just knew you were talking about Wolverine :D When I saw it, a few people got up as soon as the credits rolled, but the lights remained dimmed, so most people stayed put. They went up after about a minute, so most people started making for the exit, then all of a sudden the extra scene came on. Queue everyone just stopping where they were - in the aisles, coming back up from the exit doors. You could hear people muttering annoyance at the people who were walking along the row and simply stopped right in front of those still sat down ! :D On that basis, maybe there should be hint to stay put. Then again, the film makers would say it rewarRAB those who stay to read about everyone who was involved in the film.

FWIW, and without giving it away,
the extra scene is of no real relevance to the film, unless it ties in with other spin-oRAB or sequels/ prequels.

My fav. end credits scene is from Ferris Buellers day Off. There's a sequence over the credits, and at the very end Ferris comes on in his dressing gown and says 'You're still here !? It's over. Go home. Go.' :D
 
can someone confirm was there 2 extra scenes at the end of wolverine? I've been told there was one about 1minute after the credits started (seen this one) then another at the very very end of credits :confused:
 
Your post nudged me to go an search out that sequence. I'm glad you mentioned it!

The film doesn't do a massive amount for me, (I think I've only ever seen it once,) but the end credit sequence is soooo funny. :D Jeffrey Jones' expressions are magnificent.
 
No you're right.
I saw a guy leave the cinema during State of Play pre credits at the weekend as it appeared he assumed the story was all wrapped up. The end credits are worth sticking around for as it happens.
You've paid your money so why run off?
Unless you're sure exiting the car park will be a nightmare...
 
I recall seeing a film a while back where Bugs Bunny kept popping up during the credits with comments like "You still here?" "Don't you have homes to go to?"

Think it might have Gremlins or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
 
:D:D:D



I wonder when the trend for putting credits at the end of a movie began? Because watch films pre-1975 (roughly) and they all have credits at the beginning, so that when the actual film enRAB all you had was "The End" flashing across the screen and it was over. Maybe they should revert to that method. Of course, sitting through 15 minutes of credits for Return Of The King before the story even starts could prove challenging :D
 
I must say that my preference is for this sort of opening:

Tripe Studios Present
A Rubbish Production
A C**p Film

THE RETURN OF THE TWO TOWERS​

and then gets into the story with all the credits at the end.

I don't mind if the full opening titles play unobtrusively as the film unfolRAB; but I do hate those that actually have a long credit sequence before the film actually starts.
 
I remember when I went to the cinema & saw Daredevil & left as soon as the credits came up :mad:.

Then as soon as I heard about the extra scene, I found the clip online & was quite amused at Bullseye killing the fly in the hospital :cool:
 
The UK version (above) ties into the proposed second Wolverine prequel
which will be set in Japan.

The other version (USA got two, randomly assigned to different post credit sequences) has

Deadpool reattaching his head, then turning toward the camera and breaking the forth wall (as Deadpool does in the comics) and shushing the audience. This ties into the proposed Deadpool spinoff.
 
I agree! It's good to appreciate the work that all those people have done. Problem is there's so many of them that the list often goes on and on! I often like to see what the music was, and that's usually a long way into the credits.

One of the classic post-credit scenes is in the 1970s film Freebie and the Bean. If you left as soon as the credits started rolling the film had a really sad ending. If you'd waited you'd come out really laughing.

Sometimes I think the post-credit scene spoils the film a little bit - I didn't like the one in The Fast and the Furious - seemed like an unnecessary add-on that spoilt a perfect ending. I didn't like the one in the first Pirates of the Caribbean either. I quite like the "out-takes" in the Pixar films.
 
If you ever get to go to a cast&crew screening it can be quite fun as they all clap when their little group's names scroll up. So imagine you're in a 2000 seat cinema in Leicester Square, you have a general background applause, then little pockets of big applause bursting out from all over the place as they spot their bit in the credits :D

From my days as a projectionist we would generally program the lights to stay off if the film had scenes under the credits right from the end of the film or pretty soon after, and then have them come on dim at the point where the under-credit scene ended and it became a mostly black screen. If the film just had plain credits then dim lights straight away. So if there were any after-credits scenes then unfortunately the lights would be on (dim though, same level as they should be for the aRAB/trailers). Nothing you can do about it, unfortunately these days people want to be up and out of there the minute the credits roll so you have to give them some light to avoid falling over themselves.

You should never ever see the lights go to cleaners lights level while there's still any sort of picture or credits on screen though. Cinemas that do that should be closed down immediately :D
 
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