Your favourite Main titles/opening credits Sequence!

[filmmusic 3,269]

I didn 't see any similar thread here, so I thought to start one, since I'm doing a nostalgia travel this past hour..

I was thinking that the Opening Credits sequence of Terminator 2: Judgement Day is perhaps my favourite ever! ( i wish i could find a working link in youtube)

This music, with the fire and the playground, the sound FX, the irony of it all!! It gives me goosebumps everytime!

Plus the fact that I saw the film at the cinemas when I was 12 years old.

I love my "film" childhood and i feel lucky that I was not born post-2000.

So, what is your favourite (visuals + sound + music) main title sequence?

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Superman.

[filmmusic 3,269]

Superman.

it's funny, i would pick this as 2nd favourite (i was thinking of writing it), but i thought that being a favourite was mostly due to the music, and of course the way the credits appear and it hadn't anything else visually, so...

[Jay 46,241]

David Fincher is usually good for a good opening sequence. I couldn't find Fight Club's on youtube so here is Dragon Tattoo's

[filmmusic 3,269]

So, that means that Fight Club is your favourite ever?

[Jay 46,241]

I also couldn't find Tintin on youtube, so here's Catch Me If You Can

[filmmusic 3,269]

Yes, but you didnt' answer the thread's question:

What is your favourite ever (if you had one choice)?

[publicist 4,650]

[Jay 46,241]

Oh I dunno, I'd have to think about it

This is probably my favorite TV series opening titles

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Superman. Best Ever, has been for almost 35 years now.

[Jay 46,241]

Star Wars might be my favorite. Or at least it was for a long time, until the prequels came out and I lost interest in the series.

[SF1_freeze 138]

(Starwars doesnt count. All the credits are in the end of the films)

TV series: Game of Thrones Opening Credits (I agree with Jason)

There are a number of amazing opening titles in films: James Bond - Skyfall, Tintin, Lord of War...

But my favorite ever has to be: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" That musical number is just a fantastic and suprising opening to the in my opinion best Indy movie and score.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Meteor, a dreadful film had cool credits,

CMIYC has the best Spielberg credits, but Tintin has excellent credits too and that jazzy beginning, wow.

I love that Willie blocks the title to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[filmmusic 3,269]

But my favorite ever has to be: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" That musical number is just a fantastic and suprising opening to the in my opinion best Indy movie and score.

OMG! I can't forgive myself that I forgot this!!

My favourite adventure film ever, my favourite Indiana Jones movie, and a superb opening sequence!!!

Hmm, i am now in a dilemma whether this would de-throne Terminator 2 or not!!

[Jay 46,241]

Oooh yea, Temple of Doom might be my favorite. I love every second of it and am more than likely grinning from ear to ear the entire time (and practically the entire movie )

[filmmusic 3,269]

Watching the Bluray was an otherwordly experience!!

I felt like a kid again, watching it for the first time!

it would be very interesting if Spielberg had done a musical back in those days.

I think it would be like the old classic great musicals of 40s-50s-60s!

[Jay 46,241]

Seeing it on the big screen last year was awesome, if only it were a 35mm print. Maybe someday

[Ludwig 1,180]

This is it for me - it's just so incredibly engrossing. Nothing matches it, IMO:

[Quintus 6,493]

Superman.

[filmmusic 3,269]

Believe it or not but I've never seen these Eastwood spaggheti westerns with Morricone music.

This genre is not really my thing, and the same with the music..

maybe I should give it a try sometime..

[Brónach 1,330]

But, but, but the music is eeeepic.

Yes you should give them a try,

[Ludwig 1,180]

Believe it or not but I've never seen these Eastwood spaggheti westerns with Morricone music.

This genre is not really my thing, and the same with the music..

maybe I should give it a try sometime..

Start with the very best - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

<-- Trust me, you'll be like this when you see it! It's a movie that everyone can like. Eli Wallach as Tuco is priceless. You'll love it!

[Not Mr. Big 5,011]

[filmmusic 3,269]

But, but, but the music is eeeepic.

Yes you should give them a try,

well, it sounds a bit camp parody to me..

(well, maybe it's due to the countless ways it has been used ever since in parodies)

[mrbellamy 8,230]

[Wycket 36]

My top three film openings

Casino Royale

Watchmen

Psycho

My top three tv openings

Get Smart

The Prisoner

Doctor Who 74-80

[Ludwig 1,180]

Yes! That's up there for me too. "A moose once bit by sister"... "no really!"

[Ollie 1,375]

Couldn't find the original sound mix but....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTiTh6ViNLY

[Naïve Old Fart 13,020]

I've got three favourites, for various reasons.

"The Towering Inferno" introduced me to the music of JW, so that takes pride of place.

"Superman" have simply the most mind-blowing titles that I have ever seen, bar none! No other flim announces itself in the same way that "Superman" does.

"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" has the most simplistic titles ever. The white credits on a black background, coupled with the gradually resolving music, are fantastic. Add in the frame of white just before the cut to the desert and you get a very effective begining to a film.

I also like the titles to "North By Northwest", "Panic Room", and "TRON".

[Quintus 6,493]

For years (when I was a kid) the Superman movie was ITS CREDITS. The movie could have ended immediately after them and I'd have been satisfied. For myself and my kid brother, those credits, they were THE MAIN EVENT.

[Jilal 681]

Star Wars.

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Star Wars.

Star Wars.

You do know that SW does not have main titles right?

[Uni 307]

I love that Willie blocks the title to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

 

Yes!

 

Monty Python's up there for me, too. I also always though E.T. was an interesting artistic choice for the opening credits. He doesn't play to the film as it's going to be; he plays it as a quiet, eerie prelude the the opening scene.

 

But as much as I hate "going with the crowd," there'll never be a sequence that tops Superman. I still get huge goosepimples when the giant "S" appears for the first time. Incredibly cool.

 

For TV . . . I've always been partial to Battlestar Galactica. Not the new series, the Glen A. Larson version. And not the pilot episode of that version (which was too slow and stately—think Williams gumming up ST:TMP). The opener for each week had the cool, "liquid-fire" graphics in space with the voiceover that speculated about the "brothers of man" out among the stars . . . and then the grand, deep, shake-your-heart military burst that opened a credit sequence edited to make the show look and feel like a staggering epic. (Whether it ever lived up to that promise is another conversation entirely. )

 

 

Stu Phillips' best work, IMO.

 

- Uni

[TheUlyssesian 2,740]

I ma guessing this is a question only about music so will reply as such.

1. Lawrence Of Arabia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWC7ZYwnuPQ

2. Gone With The Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS33Pv-A9d8

3. Breakfast At Tiffany's

4. Umberellas at Cherbourg

5. 400 Blows

El Cid

Doctor Zhivago

North by Northwest

Spartacus

A Passage To India

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYUDoSWDJM

Ben-Hur

Catch Me If You Can

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Magnificent Seven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZQhatbj3A

Shane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DVPxbsTccg

Amarcord

[Jay 46,241]

I ma guessing this is a question only about music so will reply as such.

So, what is your favourite (visuals + sound + music) main title sequence?

[TheUlyssesian 2,740]

Great! My choices still apply.

[Brónach 1,330]

I also always though E.T. was an interesting artistic choice for the opening credits. He doesn't play to the film as it's going to be; he plays it as a quiet, eerie prelude the the opening scene.

Yes, it's a very good idea for the film. Doing anything else would betray the emotional progression of it.

The only other option I can think of would be to have no opening credits at all.

[filmmusic 3,269]

TheUlyssesian you cheat!

The idea was to post one, or 2 at the most!

[Uni 307]

Yes, it's a very good idea for the film. Doing anything else would betray the emotional progression of it.

The only other option I can think of would be to have no opening credits at all.

Or silence. But that wouldn't have been nearly as effective, would it?

TheUlyssesian you cheat!

The idea was to post one, or 2 at the most!

I wasn't going to say it . . . but I'm glad you did.

- Uni

[Matt C 605]

I can't choose one or two. There are five I enjoy equally, for different reasons.

- "Game of Thrones"

- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

- Spider-Man 2

- Marvel's The Avengers

- Something Wicked This Way Comes

[filmmusic 3,269]

Well, since many of you are posting TV intros too, I may as well post my favourite ever:

(I love this effect of: first statement of the theme with Ron Perlman's narration, then modulation to another tonality and 2nd statement of the theme with narration by Linda Hamilton)

if we are to go in animation/anime intros, well, there is a whole bunch of them.