Closing credits get longer . . . and l-o-n-g-e-r . . . and l--o--n--g--e--r. Drivers and caterers and completion-bond companies now get joined by wave after wave of CGI workers. Opening credits? What are opening credits? They’ve pretty much disappeared. Twenty-first-century moviegoers want to get right to it, apparently.
To get a taste of how things used to be, go to the Brattle Sunday. Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966) is being screened as part of the theater’s DCP festival, showing off its new digital-projection system.
Like the spaghetti western they introduce, the opening credits for “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” are unashamedly over the top. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
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