Buffy ,'Potential'
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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.)
I loved the opening sequence for Watchmen. It was better than the movie.
Amen to that. By the time it went from black & white to color, I considered my money well-spent and reminded myself of that a couple hours later when disappointed by the rest of the film. Which was itself a deja vu experience since the same thing happened with Van Helsing.
Oh! The credits for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World are fun times. Also the 8-bit Universal logo.
By the way, Jane Eyre was a very respectable version. Great mood, appropriate amount of gloominess, good mix of the gothic and romance elements of the story. For the most part, the choices for where to compress/change the story were right on the money. Loved the choice for framing the story: It starts with her fleeing Thornfield over the moors and ending up at the Rivers' place and that sets in motion the flashbacks to her story and we eventually join up with the exact same shots at the approriate moment later.
Mia W... was great. Fassbender was a bit too good looking for Rochester, but I'll live. Dame Judi Dench was, of course, awesome.
Annoyingly, we ended up not having press tickets and sitting in the second row, which was not good for the opening shots, but was awesome for the Q&A with the director and Mia afterward.
Serenity
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.)
The town. EXPLODES. While everyone is running around in corsets and frock coats and pirate hats. What's not to love?
By the way, Jane Eyre was a very respectable version.
Megan, thanks for the report. It sounds like it might be a version that won't make me run screaming from the theater.
It sounds like it might be a version that won't make me run screaming from the theater.
Definitely not. I had a few quibbles with stuff near the end, but they really did a good job with it. Keep in mind, I just spent the last two weeks listening to a Librivox recording as a reread so everything was fresh in my mind to compare it with.
Definitely not. I had a few quibbles with stuff near the end, but they really did a good job with it. Keep in mind, I just spent the last two weeks listening to a Librivox recording as a reread so everything was fresh in my mind to compare it with.
Now I want to re-read Jane Eyre. It has been a while...