Your Favorite Opening Credits Sequences

[luke1234]

Good list CerealKiller

 

[weezerspider]

Watchmen. No explanation needed.
Oh and Magnum Force's opening with Harry's famous line and the gun. Cool Stuff.

 

[Drizzle]

My favorites:

-Any Tim Burton movie ("Beetlejuice", "Batman" and "Batman Returns", "Mars Attacks", "Edward Scissorhands", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Sweeney Todd", even "Planet of the Apes")
-A few of the James Bond movies ("A View To A Kill", "Live And Let Die", "Goldfinger" and "Casino Royale" stand out)
-"Watchmen"
-"Superman Returns" (its opening credit sequence was the best part of the movie )
-"Spider-Man 2"
-"Halloween"
-"Planet Terror"
-"Sin City"
-"Pulp Fiction"

 

[JoshTCraig]

Watchmen had the best in my opinion, Followed by T2 Judgement Day.

 

[Duneboy]

The opening credits for Watchmen are awesome!! Best I've seen in a long time. Synder did an awesome job on that.

 

[TLH]

Notables: (in no order)

Jaws
Watchmen
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Goodfellas

 

[The Chairman]

Two pages and no mention of The Naked Gun?

 

[Sawyer]

My favorites:

-Any Tim Burton movie ("Beetlejuice", "Batman" and "Batman Returns", "Mars Attacks", "Edward Scissorhands", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Sweeney Todd", even "Planet of the Apes")
-A few of the James Bond movies ("A View To A Kill", "Live And Let Die", "Goldfinger" and "Casino Royale" stand out)
-"Watchmen"
-"Superman Returns" (its opening credit sequence was the best part of the movie )
-"Spider-Man 2"
-"Halloween"
-"Planet Terror"
-"Sin City"
-"Pulp Fiction"

It really was. The CG shot of Krypton's destruction was incredible.

The opening for Star Trek was pretty damn fantastic too. Michael Giacchino's score brought tears to my eyes.
The opening of Pulp Fiction too... "If any of you ****ing ****s move, I'll execute every mother****ing last one of you!"

 

[JoshTCraig]

Two pages and no mention of The Naked Gun?

Wow I forgot about that movie! The credits were EPIC!

 

[[A]]

Right now, I can only think of Watchmen.

 

[gwynplaine]

Two pages and no mention of The Naked Gun?

.

 

[Jochimus]

Forbidden Planet - Louis and Bebe Barron's electronic music and the sprawling credits I just find freakishly cool.
Vertigo, North By Northwest, and Psycho - Saul Bass credit FX + Bernard Herrmann = win.
The early Bond movies - Near-naked women + John Barry = even more win.
Superman: The Movie - John Williams deserves most of the credit here, although Richard Greenberg's credit FX and the macrophotography are still pretty spectacular.
Airplane! - Not so much the music score this one, but the PA messages that happen between the credits ("Don't tell ME which zone is for loading and which zone is for unloading!" "Listen, Betty, don't start up with your white zone **** again!")
The Thing (1982) - As with S:TM, it's the music that does most of the work, and Ennio Morricone's music still creeps the hell outta me long before the ship plummets into the Antarctic. And the burning title is a great nod to the 1951 film.

 

[CWP]

Loved X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Such a cool theme and great sequences going on. Superman Returns was also good.

 

[david icke]

Batman: The Movie - a fav of mine as well, love the music and the darkness, as well as being a lot of fun it can give you an idea of what an Adam West Bat noir movie would have been like.

Signs - love the heavy and spooky dramatic music here

Casino Royale - just perfect, graphics are cool, tune is one of the best.

Fight Club - just a pure charger

Superman: The Movie - doing the swooshing credits was genius

Watchmen - yeah, couldn't be better.

Planet of the apes - another spooky dramatic one, the music is phenomenal.

Spiderman trilogy - I love all three, 1st -great graphics, 2nd great to see comicbook art used, 3- love the music and webbing effects for the re-caps.

 

[TEDDY]

Watchmen


Casino Royale


Snatch


Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon


Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2


Sin City


Inside Man

 

[danoyse]

A Hard Day's Night - it's one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite songs.

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[Mrs. Sawyer]

Once Upon A Time In The West- Three killers stand in an empty train station waiting for their man. The credits fade in and out around them as they fidget and anticipate the kill. At last,The train pulls up and a pissed off Charles Bronson gets off.
He knows who they are and they know he knows. Silence has never sounded so loud.
Three against one... They shoulda brought more men.

I love the opening. You just knew they were building up the opening for something awesome to happen.

Watchmen.
It perfectly sets up the alternative history to Bob Dylan's amazing "Times they a changing". Pure brilliance.

It really was. The CG shot of Krypton's destruction was incredible.

The opening for Star Trek was pretty damn fantastic too. Michael Giacchino's score brought tears to my eyes.
The opening of Pulp Fiction too... "If any of you ****ing ****s move, I'll execute every mother****ing last one of you!"

This was one of the most amazing opening to scenes to a film.

 

[Hannibal Smith]

1 Lord Of The Rings Fellowship Of The Ring.
2 Star Trek.
3 X-Men.
4 Casino Royale. Or Just about any Bond Film FOR Bond movies are best at Opening Films.
5 The Dark Knight.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells

Snatch

RocknRolla

Zombieland

Watchmen

Lord of War

Se7en

Fight Club

The Thing

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Catch me if You Can

Platoon

Carlitos Way

Spider-Man trilogy

Alien 3

For a Few Dollars More

Mulholland Drive

 

[Hobgoblin]

The only one I can even think of is Spy Hard.

 

[Duneboy]

watchmen
hulk
incredible hulk
conan the barbarian
spiderman 2

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day remains my favorite opening of all time. Its surreal, terrifying/haunting, tragic, and bad ass from beginning to end.

Conan the Barbarian comes 2nd with the sword-making.

 

[Max J Power]

Hands down my favorite opening credits sequence is in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The only video of it I could find is this Facebook fan page.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1085588989914

 

[dude stannis]

5. Snatch. Sets the tone of the film perfectly.

4. Se7en. Just about the creepiest opening ever.

3. Superman series. Just epic. The score makes it.

2. Terminator 2. A grim gritty future, plagued in darkness and death. Then the wall of fire, all timed to Brad Fiedel's foreboding and haunting theme. Then you see the name Arnold Schwarzenegger appear out of the fire and you know one thing: Death and destruction are immenent.

1. Watchmen. No contest for me. It creates a world and has you completely immersed into it.

 

[spider-neil]

watchmen -
rubbish movie (imho) briiliant opening credits

SM2 -
beautiful paintings by alex ross

hulk -
the entire origin told in the credits so no need to bog down the movie having it during the 1st act

james bond -
closes old mission to start new mission in the actual movie.
the best one is the spy who loved me because the significance of te opening credits actually plays out in the movie.