pixie_twinkle 44 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I'd like to offer the opening credits from Hitch's North by Northwest (credits presented in an angular fashion, finally revealed to be the pattern of the side of a building).Also Delicatessen (credits laid out ahead of time in various places in a cluttered room, on a desk. The camera slowly pans through the room, pausing as it centres on each credit).An honourable mention to the TV series "Heroes". Not exactly the credits, but each episode title is imaginitvely presented at the start of each episode. The episode titles were actually more exciting than most of season 2's episodes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 If you're including end credits (since this film doesn't have an opening credits sequence) I'll say West Side Story, with the credits painted/chalked on the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpigeon 3 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Here's some memorable title sequences, off the top of my head. There are so many others, but they have to come to me...Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002)Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)Alien (R. Scott, 1979)Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 49 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Superman.Not Superman Returns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScratch 292 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I will complete the Hitchcock trifecta and say Psycho, also all of Pedro Almodovars films have good credit sequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 VertigoSpartacusSaul Bass rulesand Catch me if you can of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 459 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Se7en and The Panic Room come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 195 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Superman.Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom-tzzzz 0 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Panic Room is quite interesting, IMHO. The 20th anniversary edition of E.T. is very nice because you can hear the audience cheering and acclaiming everytime a new name appears on screen during the opening credits. It's funny to notice JW gets more applause than Henry Thomas or else Anyway, I love the idea to chose the audiotrack with the live performance of the score. BTW, it shows again, that Spielberg actually cares for Williams Scores. I mean, come on guys - how many soundtracks do you know, that could be performed live in the cinema?! There's so much (re-)editing ... It's terrible to hear one track 3 or 4 times during the movie. (like in GoF).Not to mention Aliens ... Meanwhile, I hate movies with opening credits just appearing while the actual film has already started. Like the first minutes wouldn't be important enough ... sometimes it's really annoying.sorry for the bad english guys ...Henry, who discovered recently the joy of deezer.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Bad English?I'd add the James Bond series to the list.All of them, just for the heck of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Batman Returns also is pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SturgisPodmore 0 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Psycho is indeed quite amazing. With the jagged old-time bars of black and white and gray, it looks like the inside of a psychotic person's mind. Plus the music is unbeatable. This sequence gets you excited for the film before the film even begins.Signs is the same way, and due in large part the music. The titles fly up and the music boils with major intensity, then the film begins quietly, kind of like Psycho.And most movies scored by Danny Elfman automatically have their title sequences made better my his main titles music, which is consistantly excellent.~Sturgis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genius_Gone_Insane 5 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yes! Superman and Batman Returns.Oh, and Superman Returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 The opening credits of Superman Returns are like the opening credits of Superman... with ADD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 49 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yep. I cringed at all those "WHOOSH!" sound effects. The laser sounds in the opening of Spaceballs were more tastefully done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I was more troubled by the constant barrage of planets flying across the screen at great speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genius_Gone_Insane 5 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Oh, and Superman Returns.I was kind of joking here. Anyway, I thought it was funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)It's my favorite movie, but I don't think the credits are anything special. Temple of Doom has fantastic opening titles though.Superman - The Movie is the film with the coolest opening titles.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I love that they put Willie in front of the title on ToD.Superman is awesome, and I consider the little prologue very much a part of why those credits work so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScratch 292 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 how many soundtracks do you know, that could be performed live in the cinema?!I've seen the silent Phantom of the Opera with live orchestral score and in March I'm seeing City Lights with the live score. There is no experience like it! I wish it was done more often and with sound movies, silent movies obviously lend themselves better to this kind of treatment but I'd love to see a movie like Close Encounters with live score.I was more troubled by the constant barrage of planets flying across the screen at great speed.I can't remember where I read it, but somebody compared it to the credits sequence of 3rd Rock From The Sun. In the theatre I saw it at, there were still idiots commenting on the length of the credits though. People are idiots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Star Trek TMP. The original 1979 opening titles, not the glitzy and garish CGI ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 195 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I'd add the James Bond series to the list.All of them, just for the heck of it.Right you are, I forgot that. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Alien also has a damn good opening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I can't remember where I read it, but somebody compared it to the credits sequence of 3rd Rock From The Sun.It had never occured to me, but it's not far off, actually.btw, I saw The Gold Rush with live orchestra a few years back and it was marvelous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I love that they put Willie in front of the title on ToD.The story I read about that was it's an in-joke. That Raiders was such a success it did all of the marketing for ToD and that they didn't even need to show the title on screen!Star Trek TMP. The original 1979 opening titles, not the glitzy and garish CGI ones.Those boring workprint cards?Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 It's pretty true.It lends to the film's larger-than-life character. It's saying "we're so big we don't even need to show you our newly snazzed up credits!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 73 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Napoleon Dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Those boring workprint cards?NeilIn that teriffic font!Unadorned, and straight forward with Jerry's music driving them. It's fantastic, and they were a bunch of monkees for changing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Those boring workprint cards?NeilIn that teriffic font!Unadorned, and straight forward with Jerry's music driving them. It's fantastic, and they were a bunch of monkees for changing it!Aren't the titles in The Director's Edition the same font?And in regards to Jerry's music, the original titles don't use his preferred version of the "Main Title" whereas The Director's Edition does.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hook, line......and sinker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hook, line......and sinker! Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryThe titles itself are nothing special, but it ends with a real bang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,638 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Somehow I hate it when a theatrical movie has the credits in front, over actual film footage. Like Narnia. Makes it feel like a TV movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Somehow I hate it when a theatrical movie has the credits in front, over actual film footage. Like Narnia. Makes it feel like a TV movie."I like the TV movies..."Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hmmm, I would say Seven, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, Raging Bull, Superman, bunch of others.Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 152 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Catch Me If You Can is above all other main titles.Star Wars, Psycho, North by Northwest, Cutthroat Island (mainly because of the music), Signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Austin Powers: Goldmember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryThe titles itself are nothing special, but it ends with a real bang! That it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SturgisPodmore 0 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Napoleon Dynamite.Oh, yeah!Juno had some pretty creative opening credits, too.~Sturgis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Austin Powers: Goldmember Actually I enjoyed all 3 Austin Powers opening credit sequences.Superman, TOD, Almost everything done by Saul Bass, The Towering Inferno (Too bad Williams name didn't appear until the End Titles), Basic Instinct, Beetle Juice and the Bond Films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,064 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan...Flying against the first digital space scene in cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI 0 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 The two S's. Seven and Superman. But the best credits is Born on the Fourth of July. How did Johnny happen to make the most coherent and awesome themes, match every single nuance of that opening sequence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholas 1 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Death in Venice - with slow movement of Mahler's fifth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 I forgot about Alien! Brilliant opening "title". The Bond movies have stunning visuals during the opening titles, but I was more interested in the presentation of the actual text for this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 85 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Superman ReturnsIndependence Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 Please remind me how the Independence Day credits are presented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Please remind me how the Independence Day credits are presented.Boom! Woosh! But in a good and rather understated, non-Michael Bay way. The letters in the title come together then scatter. I love the "July 3" and "July 4" act breaks, especially the last chord of The First Lady Dies over July 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 I should probably see it again, give it another chance. I didn't like the film all that much so I've tended to avoid it over the last few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 It's good fun, and worth it just to hear the score in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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