Mal ,'Shindig'
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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.
I love Skidoo! The closing credits are sung by Harry Nilsson!
The way the Paramount Mountain logo turns into the mountain in the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Ooh, one of my favorites, for sure.
Honorable mention for any old movie who's credits are printed in a book with the pages being turned!
The only one I can think of right now is Juno. The hand drawn stuff was pretty cool.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail aka Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen
I loved the opening credits to "Up in the Air."
That reminds me HHGTTG! "So long & thanks for all the fish."
The closing credits are sung by Harry Nilsson!
I have that track if anybody needs it.
TV Show credits True Blood gets my vote.
#1 All-Time TV credit sequence? Cowboy Bebop!
Carnivale and Six Feet Under are also pretty great.
It's been so long since I've seen it, but I do believe that Beetlejuice had a fun opening credit sequence, with the camera zooming through the miniature town.
Yes, that is the opening sequence. And it's so much fun!
The opening sequence for Coraline is wonderful.
Not "best evah" or anything, but the opening scene for "Cutthroat Island" is a stitch. In fact pretty much the only thing in the film worth watching. (Jilli thinks a couple of other scenes are worthwhile.)