Dear Norwegian moviegoers
This has been bugging me for a long time, but now it’s enough. Seriously. You need to calm down and learn to enjoy every piece of the movie – even the end credits!
What I am talking about is the clear panic that strikes Norwegian moviegoers once they see the screen showing the slightest sign that this, this might be the end! I believe that if you install movie screens instead of fire alarms in public buildings, and show the very last 5 seconds of a movie whenever the alarm trigger, the building will empty in record time! It would just pour Norwegians out onto the streets, running for their lives to get away from this horrible, horrible, horrible black screen of scrolling death.
I am pretty sure many Norwegians would choose death over a full end credit. Seriously.
When I go to the movies I like to enjoy it to the very end (unless, of course, it sucks donkey balls – but then I have probably left hours before the end credits even starts thinking about getting dressed and ready to enter the stage). I am even of that strange breed who likes to sink a few centimeters more into the seat and listen to the end score while I let all the impressions and emotions from the movie sink in.
Why the rush? You paid half your house and your two dogs to get that ticket, why on earth would you run out like that? And even before they turn the lights on! You stumble and fall and make a complete fool of your self! At least I get a good laugh, though, just not when you fall on me.
I tell you, the end credits will not kill you! It is not scrolling after you, it is scrolling because there is simply not enough room to show it all at once! So sit back, relax, finish your soda, eat the last of your candy and popcorn, let the movie sink in and enjoy the music. I am fed up of having people running over my legs and stressing out of the cinema. At least wait till the frikkin’ lights are turned on!
PS: “Angels & Demons” was great 
No clue about the end credits, though…
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I hear you there.
I remember one specific episode. It was the end credits for Rush Hour 1. ‘Everyone’ knows that Jackie Chans movies role the bloopers during the end creds, so i was really looking forward to them….problem was that I was the only one. I ended up having to stand and watch, while ppl tramped on my feet / kicked my soda.
It seems that norwegians have phobia against standing in lines. The only problem about rushing out of the cinema ASAP, is that it creates longer lines -> more waiting *go figure*
-P
Amen. That is so true, and so annoying! I like to sit the whole movie out as well, enjoying the end credits when I can (most people find it rather strange so I’m often being forcefully dragged out..).
They should really dedicate the 3-4 rows in the very middle to those of us who want to sit through the end credits as well. If you buy tickets on those rows, you have to live with the fact that you won’t get out until the cleaning staff shoooshes us out with their brooms!