# Movie Credits at the speed of light.

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**Created:** [March 20, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-credits-at-the-speed-of-light/653445 "2013-03-20T14:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-credits-at-the-speed-of-light/653445/41 "2013-03-24T17:35:59Z")

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> [@DMark](#):
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> What about some of those films that have the credits running at the BEGINNING of a film?  
> Usually this kind of film has some over-long intro song, some boring landscape and name after name after name showing up until the damned film starts.
> 
> My theory is the film is probably so bad, they run them at the beginning before people start leaving in droves during the film.

Art titles come and go in fashion. You can track the shift from minimalist, even absent front titles (film makers can shift them to the end by paying fines to the various guilds) to the high-art, high-concept titles that are virtually short movies in themselves (most Bond films, _Watchmen_, others in just-past years).

There’s a trope I picked up long ago: that any movie beginning with a hard rock song almost certainly sucks. Can’t think of too many exceptions.

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