Greatest Opening Credits Ever?

[+ azdr0710]

I'd like to post this in The Lounge so more not-so-highbrow folks like me will see it, but I fear it'd get moved over here anyway.......I still remember being f-ing blown away as a kid in 1978 when we went to see this and I witnessed these opening credits.........the now-legendary John Williams music and heavy percussion, the blue swooshes, and the big screen combined to make opening credits which many feel have never been equaled to this day......

 

important: go full screen and crank that volume....if available, use headphones.....even then, our little laptop/desktop screens won't match the thrill of the big screen at a 1978 first-time viewing

 

Edited May 17, 2019 by azdr0710

[Boink]

One of my most memorable opening sequences on the big screen was for the movie CONTACT. I remember it getting applause in the theater! It's all about the sound...

 

Edited May 17, 2019 by Boink

[Boink]

Another one that that stands out in my memory. It's better than the movie itself, which is not unusual. There are companies in Hollywood that do nothing but creative credit sequences, separate and apart from the movie production itself.

 

[+ Robster]

Superman was the one I thought of as soon as I saw the thread title. One of the first films I ever watched as a wee lad. Love those opening credits!

 

Rob

[+ oldNbusted]

 

2001: A Space Odyssey

Edited May 17, 2019 by oldNbusted

[+ oldNbusted]

 

Se7en

[+ oldNbusted]

 

The Shining

[+ sync]

My favorite is another John Wlliams homerun, Jurassic park, but I can't find a video of the opening scenes and credits.

[+ oldNbusted]

I am sticking to the theme of the OP, opening credits, credits have to be on the screen. If we open it up to opening scenes, this thread would be very long...

[samhexum]

[samhexum]

And if you were a fan of Air Supply:

 

[+ oldNbusted]

 

Jackass The Movie

[+ E.T.Bass]

I have mixed emotions about David Lynch but always liked the opening to Mulholland Drive.

 

The opening includes clues about what's to come, what's going on in this mysterious movie.

 

The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it.

~Roger Ebert

[+ E.T.Bass]

I have mixed emotions about David Lynch but always liked the opening to Mulholland Drive.

 

The opening includes clues about what's to come, what's going on in this mysterious movie.

 

The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it.

~Roger Ebert

[+ Reg]

Star Wars (1977)

 

[+ Reg]

Star Wars (1977)

 

[RealAvalon]

I'd like to post this in The Lounge so more not-so-highbrow folks like me will see it, but I fear it'd get moved over here anyway.......I still remember being f-ing blown away as a kid in 1978 when we went to see this and I witnessed these opening credits.........the now-legendary John Williams music and heavy percussion, the blue swooshes, and the big screen combined to make opening credits which many feel have never been equaled to this day......

 

important: go full screen and crank that volume....if available, use headphones.....even then, our little laptop/desktop screens won't match the thrill of the big screen at a 1978 first-time viewing

 

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Edited May 22, 2019 by RealAvalon

[RealAvalon]

 

Jackass The Movie

I wonder how many takes that took.

[+ oldNbusted]

I wonder how many takes that took.

 

I have no idea but it makes me laugh every time I see it.

[+ pitman]

Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. 3 1/2 incredible minutes in a single shot.

 

[TruthBTold]

I liked the first few minutes of Brazil (the movie), one of favorite movies. Here is the beginning of the movie with perhaps just a portion of the opening credits.

 

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=opening+credits+brazil+movie+trailer#id=1&vid=bebe7c7c3ea6628940c9df1ac81d6b16&action=click

[+ WilliamM]

I have mixed emotions about David Lynch but always liked the opening to Mulholland Drive.

 

The opening includes clues about what's to come, what's going on in this mysterious movie.

 

The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it.

~Roger Ebert

 

I saw Mulholland Drive at the Castro in San Francisco with Ann Miller in the audience. She talked and answered questions after the film. This was several years after the release.

[+ E.T.Bass]

I saw Mulholland Drive at the Castro in San Francisco with Ann Miller in the audience. She talked and answered questions after the film. This was several years after the release.

How awesome! I would love to have been there. She was great in that movie. Chad Everett was good too. Had a good scene with Naomi Watts.

 

Love the trailer.