The Quintessentialist

Well, not all opening credits, but most I should state for the point. You know what they are, they tell you who's in it and who made it during the first few minutes of screen time. It's not like that comes at the end of the film, nope not at all... oh wait... To me it takes me out of the atmosphere of the film, I do prefer just a title card placed in the film, it gets straight to the point and it is simple and sometimes artful enough to really bring you through the first act of the film. But some of you may be yelling at me, "But that's what opening credits do!" You exclaim metaphorically loudly at your screen, or maybe not. But my question to you is, "Why do we have to sit through the same credits twice?" I came to watch a movie, not watch the credits. The reason why I say this is, if the movie was bad, like really really bad then when it's over and the credits roll I don't have to sit through the credits, I can just leave, but again if the ...