Credits and how came to hate them.

When I first went to the movies all the important people, the people who made a difference in that particular movie were listed at the beginning of the movie. When the end credits started, if there were any, was the time that audience got to their feet and left the theater.

I began to notice and hate the ridiculous inclusion of everybody imaginable to film credits when I started to collect laser discs (LD). The standard laser disc could contain only an hour of film on each side so if a film ran over two hours another disc had to be added. So if that ran over two hours as the result of credits, that was an extra disc and extra ten dollars.

Does it really make a difference if Sam Smuck or Bob Boob is the carpenter. Do you give  BRA, I don't

TV series, what's the record for the number of producers per episode or the number of different types of producers. Anybody know what they do.

Titles, every body has to have an important sounding title, the government has added to that. I remember one day the secretary came around and said you are now a Senior Staff Computer Logic Firmware Engineer, (for government contracts). Yes and they had a nice long number. Hell I didn't even get a raise.

What if credits were extended to this ridiculous extent in every day life. The unions, AMA ABA, etc. petitioned  government to pass a law to add credits to this extent. Every building or house with a placard  with a credit list of every person that worked on that structure. Every room you entered a list of who installed the dry wall, the molding, flooring, doors, plumbing, etc. Lists of those involved creating your garments eight down to your undies. Credits tattooed on your body for a boob job by Dr. Nip, lypo by Dr. Tuck. nose job, etc.

Think of the added cost. Hell we would have to have credit goon squads, specialized goon squads at that, to police it.

What started me on this rant, a movie I was watching last night, 98 minutes and 9 minutes of it was for credits.

Curious, how long are the credits for Avatar?

I reckon it's not just the movie industry or the government, but society at large that has more or less "imposed" this habit of making yourself sound important. If you're not a "manager" of something, then you don't count. I mean, nowadays we see the garbage man calling himself "waste manager"...