Favorite Movie Credit Scrolls (At the end of a movie)

Sometimes when a film ends, the scrolling of the credits can be entertaining as well, with outakes and such. The Pixar movies come to mind, and there are a lot more I can't remember off hand.

What are some of your favorites?

I'll start off with THE BLUES BROTHERS. The way the perform "Jail House Rock" with the entire cast of the film taking a verse is pretty cool, they even have the whole production crew grab a line.

 

My favorite is not at the end of a movie, but the beginning: "Monty Python & The Holy Grail".
Everything is credited to mooses, and they had to be stopped twice(while the designers were sacked).

Evan

 

"Finding Nemo". I can't think of any credits I have ever seen where people would stay simply GLUED to their seats while nothing (except for a couple of fishies swimming on screen) happened.

Actually, *every* Pixar movie credits gets my nod.

Pixar is run by geniuses...

 

I was going to say "Holy Grail", but that's taken, so how about most Jackie Chan movies--the early/mid ones, from his "golden" period--with the outtakes at the end. Some of them are d**n funny, and some real wince-inducing: like his fall from the clock tower on Project A, or down the light pole in Police Story. They're so popular that, IIRC, that early DVD releases that didn't have them were "booed off the shelf."

Another one: Being There, with Peter Sellers.

John K.

 

There's Something About Mary, where the whole cast is singing "Build Me Up Buttercup" through the credits. Great fun.

Jeff

 

I'd say this category should include Airplane!, which among other things, credits Charles Dickens as "author of A Tale of Two Cities", follows the Best Boy credit with one for Adolph Hitler (as Worst Boy), and finishes the standard disclaimer about unauthorized reproduction with "so there". And then we get one more gag with the guy in the taxicab.

 

Good one Jeff! Another favorite of mine is Grumpy Old Men with Burgess Meredith's sexual inuendoes.

 

I've always loved the American Graffiti-style material in the closing credit sequence of Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

I also love the outtakes at the end of Being There, though they were added after the original theatrical run, IIRC.

For opening credits, it's hard to beat Once Upon A Time In The West.

 

Se7en

Favourite movie credit scroll for me was Se7en. If you don't remember or haven't seen the film, the credits roll backwards. IMHO, the opening credits were excellent as well.

 

That's a good 'un, all right. I also like the end credits for The Magnificent Ambersons, where Orson Welles IIRC is only a boom microphone as it's wheeled away.

 

End credit inflation has taken over most films. But I liked the sequence at the end of School of Rock (best part of the movie). Remember when they used to show quick shots of each cast member as part of the final credits? Loved it in The Wild Bunch.

 

I really like movies that show each actor (in their role) with their name on the screen at the end. Kinda always gets a few ("That's who that was!") comments from the crowd!

 

I think the credit roll for "Kentucky Fried Movie" with a suitable wacko track by Jonathan & Darlene Edwards works perfectly for that film.

 

Which Python film was it (I'm thinking the live concert one) that ended with Eric Idle sweeping up a movie theater floor, then looking up suddenly and insisting that all those people (us!) sit back down and watch the end credits. I tend to sit through most credits anyway, but it was hilarious seeing most of the audience halt in the exit tracks and try to make their way back to their seats while everyone sitting laughed at them. Brilliant!

 

All of the Zucker/Abrahams movies have great credits. My fav (I think it was from "Hot Shots"):

Secret of "The Crying Game"--she's a guy.

 

Police Squad series also had great credits. The best is where they list all the actors that had exactly one line, they listed their name and the line they had.

 

The otherwise-forgettable Shallow Hal has neat closing credits. They basically show "home movies" and/or still photos of each and every person involved with the making of the film.

 

The first time I saw those outtakes at the theater I laughed so hard I snorted Diet Coke out my nose!

 

The first film I can remember to start the ball rolling in blooper end credits was Smokey & the Bandit

 

I love watching the end credits on Help! just so that I can hear George repeat "I Need You by George Harrison". Just breaks me up.

-BZync

 

If you wait through the five-plus minutes of credits at the end of Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, you get a surprise involving Alanis Morrisette.

Evan