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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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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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