Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by EdM (R) on March 03, 2006 at 14:47:27

In Reply to: Academy Awards posted by jbmcb on March 3, 2006 at 08:37:17:

should films even have credits? The whole idea of all the actors, screenwriters, directors- and especially producers having their names splashed everywhere has always smacked of being ostentatious to me.

Why should I have to sit through all these people proclaiming “they made something”? Big deal. When you buy an automobile or a computer the guys names that made it aren’t written all over the product.

What is the purpose of credits except vanity? If we carried the whole idea of giving credit to it's logical extremes then-

if autos did have the builders names on them and I buy an Audi built by Helmet Schmidt, I will seek out another made by him in the future because it was so good? Yeah right.
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