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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 18 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Plenty movies from the 40s and 50s ran all the credits at the beginning along with an overture. IMO the overture is one of the best parts of older movies, which often had amazing, sweeping soundtracks

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

    Please name one. Never seen one that had more than 2 minutes of opening credit even if you include the extra symphonic stuff as “credits” (we don’t count previews toward runtimes now, so not sure it’s a fair comparison). Maybe one or two had a dedicated symphonic opening but that was exceedingly rare

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Reading your reaction to everyone else's comments, did you read the part where I said credits and an overture? What's got you so wound up over this? You'll notice I never said 10 minutes like that first guy, but most movies have way longer opening titles than 30 seconds, which is what you said...

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Which Lawrence of Arabia version from the 40s or 50s (your words) are you referring to?

    If you mean the famous 60s film…. Yes, it has a minute of credits and another 4 or 5 for the overture. Not credits.

    Again, still looking for examples of extended credit sequences. Overtures are basically the same as intermissions. That’s a totally different beast.

    Even if you want to lump them together, we’re still at the “one or two” I mentioned. Huge Hollywood blockbusters. Exceedingly rare.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I literally said overture in the comment that's got you all bothered

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago*

    Oh boy. I just reread your edited comments. It’s hard to keep up when you edit like that

    But yes, I would still care to hear your 40s and 50s examples. If you have one where overture+credits approaches 10 minutes, I’d be shocked. As we’ve discussed, some examples in the 60s can hit 5 minutes, but that’s about the most I’ve seen

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Lawrence of Arabia.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Why do people keep naming 60s films with 4 minutes of musical intros when I’m asking for 40s and 50s films with 10 minute credit intros lol?

    Edit: overture is the word I was looking for, not “musical intro”. But that’s not a thing that happened in early cinema (barring Chaplin, who had strict control of scores - would be interested if someone else cares to google that)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    4 minutes? Not the version I saw in theatre, my friend. Mind you, it's not exactly what you wanted either, even though it was longer than ten minutes of music at the start: a lot of it was playing while the screen was black, then at a certain point every theme in the music came together, the glorious visuals started up, and I knew I was in for a masterpiece.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Star Trek the Motion Picture has like a 10 minute opening credits

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