I know this has been going on for a while now, but why is it allowed to be a common practice that the end credits are squished so they fill only 25% of the screen (so they're so small that they're impossible to read).

At the same time (and more importantly), the music that accompanies them is always removed and replaced with advertisements for other programs.

It seems like the people (and companies) who were involved in the creation of the movie would be upset to see their names made even smaller than they already are.

And then the music... The music, as a result of the advertisements at the end of the movie, is removed from the end of the film and replaced with "Coming up next...! Coming up in two months from now...!"

This, in my opinion, is a cheap shot to get five more minutes of advertisement time and shouldn't be allowed to continue!

The only time I don't mind this happening are on sitcoms like, where they actually use the credits to show more of the show; in the case of Home Improvement, bloopers.

I wish it would stop, too. Just leave the credits and music as they are. You'll get plenty of time to run your own ads during the coming commercial break.

I HATE THAT!!!!

YOU DROVE US AWAY!

We want to read the credits and hear the end title music as much as we want to see any of the rest of the movie, and if you won't let us, then we're HISTORY!

You have enjoyed a fine film,muted out the crappy ads,LISTENED to the score,and WANT to hear those end credits,and the music that goes with it,and they do this stuff! What a letdown,for some of us who have kids and do not go see a movie every week! But they keep doing this, and will,as long as they think that it will make people tune into the 11:00 news or whatever infomercial that they are plugging. What it shows is no respect for those artist's craft. Boy this really pi#$@%s me of when this happens! I remember the first time that I saw FIRST KNIGHT on network.

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Personally which is an moot point either way IMO. Since the people who would watch the
credits "like us" probably change the channel because of the ads. And the people who don't care one way or the other, don't watch since they don't care.

I will say one thing, I usually watch credits, though not on broadcast television, actually the ads, edits and commercials is the reason why I rarely watch film on regular TV anymore, well that and the fact that I get about 10-15 different Premium movie channels.
Either way I don't pay attention to the ads, and only the ones on sitcoms like Frasier get me to tune in.

There are plenty more examples. Last I saw, the Boris Karloff version of The Mummy had the Franz Reizenstein score to The Hammer remake tracked in. And Hammer's Frankenstein Created Woman had spooky haunted house synthscapes instead of the James Bernard score.

And in Thailand, I attended the Bangkok World Premiere of BIG DUEL IN THE SOUTH SEAS (twenty-two years and a month after it first played in Japan -- we know it here either as GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER or EBIRAH HORROR OF THE DEEP, 1966). They'd retracked a lot of the Masaru Sato stuff, not just with canned music I didn't recognize -- but as the movie rolled on, there was more and more and more of James Horner's ALIENS! (This helped date the movie's "world premiere" in my mind -- ALIENS was still a young score then. And less than a month later in a Tokyo theater, I'd be hearing ALIENS again at the end of DIE HARD, not to mention a lovely segue from John Scott's MAN ON FIRE. These cues bought, not "borrowed.")

The cue right before that, for the long shot of the millions of shards of paper fluttering down into the plaza, is the John Scott theme from MAN ON FIRE. (Kamen just couldn't come up with anything melodic enough to make the producers happy, so he finally said "Just BUY the piece by John Scott!" -- they temped the scene with it, obviously.)

The bootleg of DIE HARD includes both the Scott and Horner cues, in their proper order as heard in the film.

Can you tell I hate it too?

*) One of the worst examples of Pan&Scan I've witnessed was during the opening sequence of the wonderful "Carlito's Way". The camera moves backwards in a straight line, while the opening credits appear to the left and to the right. First, the picture was panned so you could read the left text, and when the right one faded in, the image scrolled so that you could see the new text. This disturbed the whole sequence, because the camera is in fact ONLY moving backwards.

I think the same thing happened in The Black Hole's (and many other films, I'm sure) opening sequence... I think that for the CED and original VHS release, the aspect ratio was changed from something around 2.35x1 to 1.85x1, making all of the people in the film look tall... On top of that, some P&S was still necessary!

I have yet to see the recent Black Hole DVD, but it contains both the P&S and widescreen formats... No isolated score, though!