So, now I don't know why I was thinking it was so awesome, but it is distinct from the text-over-the-landscape thing, and gets you into the story: [link]
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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Jesse - Mar 02, 2011 10:41:38 am PST #13415 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Mar 02, 2011 10:42:01 am PST #13416 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like James Bond title sequences in general. Often better than the movie they are attached to.
-t - Mar 02, 2011 10:44:59 am PST #13417 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the end credits of Seven that made a big impact on me. Just by running the text the other way, I think, but it was jarring. I was working in a movie theater when it came out, so I saw all the end credits while sweeping up and had opinions about most of them, that's the one that really sticks in my memory all these years later.
Kathy A - Mar 02, 2011 10:49:02 am PST #13418 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
IIRC, the most clever of the classic Disney opening sequences was 101 Dalmatians, with the spots proliferating everywhere.
Sue - Mar 02, 2011 10:50:47 am PST #13419 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I remember loving the opening credits for He Got Game.
Fred Pete - Mar 02, 2011 11:00:42 am PST #13420 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm in the middle of a very strange movie from the late '60s, Skidoo. The opening "credits" appear on a TV screen for about 5 seconds. Then a remote clicks, and the TV changes channels -- and that's it. No more opening credits.
(How strange? Groucho Marx as a mob boss strange. Jackie Gleason on an LSD trip strange.)
JZ - Mar 02, 2011 11:04:27 am PST #13421 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Eddie Murphy's Coming to America -- the camera swooping down across an utterly charming miniature landscape of the prince's home nation under a sweetly soaring Ladysmith Black Mambazo song.
Soapdish is another great one made of pure fun, and I second Kathy's vote for 101 Dalmatians.
Daisy Jane - Mar 02, 2011 11:06:12 am PST #13422 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I can't remember opening credits. Oh! I know! The Charlie Hunnam Nicholas Nicolby with the gorgeous miniatures!
We had a blog post about best end credits a while back. [link]
Daisy Jane - Mar 02, 2011 11:06:56 am PST #13423 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
TV Show credits True Blood gets my vote.
le nubian - Mar 02, 2011 11:09:18 am PST #13424 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Modern films? Having seen the opening credits for this movie recently, I'd have to put The Inside Job opening credit sequence in there. I really liked it and different from Spike Lee's previous movies.
The opening sequence for Do the Right Thing has Rosie Perez at her absolute finest.