But I'm not going to talk about the movie. Nope. Partly because I really have nothing to say about it except that Maleficent's character was so bad-ass and sassy. And partly because I want to share my experience in the movie house itself.
First of all, I was very very very very disappointed about what the movie house did to the credits.
As we reached the end of the movie, I had decided that I was going to make my family stay until the credits were over. Who knows? There might be an additional scene during/after the credits. It may not be a Marvel movie, but it's Disney--and Disney owns Marvel. So, I was really looking forward to see the credits--the actors, the other people behind it, the possible ending scene.
And so it started rolling, and a remake of the song Once Upon A Dream from the Sleeping Beauty movie started playing. I got really excited, especially with the background music paying homage to the first Sleeping Beauty movie.
Then the music suddenly changed to We Are The Champions. I already knew what was happening, and I couldn't believe it.
The screen suddenly turned black. The movie was "over".
HOW. HOW COULD THEY DO THAT?! THE NERVE OF THEM TO CUT OFF THE MOVIE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CREDITS?!
As a film student, I felt so disrespected.
The movie house just decided not to show the names of the people who were behind the film they just showed. How could they be so disrespectful? The credits held the names of the people who worked hard to create the film that gave life to movie house. Did they not understand that without those people whose names they decided not to show, there wouldn't even be movie houses?! How could they not appreciate them?
The least they could do was to show the whole movie.
They were a movie house, for heaven's sake! It's their job to show the whole movie. And they decided to cut it off just because the end part was just showing a bunch of names?! PFFFT! THE NERVE.
I once heard from my father that in movie houses in other countries, people stayed until the end of the credits to show respect to the people who made them. Why couldn't we do that? Why could we not at least show some respect to people who worked hard just to entertain us?
Which brings me to another thing I noticed in the movie house. It annoys me how most people couldn't pay full attention to the movie they decided to watch. I mean, texting, talking on the phone? Why.
It hurts to see that lots of people couldn't appreciate movies in the way that they should be appreciated. Or maybe that's just the film student in me talking.
But at some point during the movie, I had this desire to teach people how to really appreciate the whole beauty of films. Maybe it's because I'm a film student; maybe it's because I know I'm going to make films in the future, too.
But whatever the reason is, I believe that people should respect what other people do; people should show appreciation for the things that made them smile.
It's all about RESPECT, people.
