Credits

Apparently:

Movie credits, which used to last an average of three to four minutes, have joined the list of other things in Hollywood — like egos and salaries — suffering from inflation. Once, moviemakers considered anything longer than seven minutes — the credits for “Titanic” and “Waterworld” were in that range — to be pushing the bounds of propriety and audience patience.

So what? It’s not like you have to stay and watch, unless it’s a Jackie Chan flick. Besides there are often plenty of legitimate reasons for crediting all sorts of people:

In independent film shorts, for example, where many people work without being paid and a screen credit is their only form of compensation, credits can sometimes last a fourth as long as the short itself. In some movies with limited budgets, travel agencies and other companies are sometimes given credit — in essence free advertising in a prestigious format — if they agree to work for less.

Besides movie credits are useless these days anyway.