Which didn't happen.

D'OH.

I can't begin to imagine how unbelievably beautiful it must have been to see that movie on the big screen.

VERTIGO!

Next, Planet of the Apes (Burton)
Batman Returns
Sleepy Hollow
Total Recall

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No! You're supposed to put Generations at the top.
Also coming to mind for a good opening sequence (although short) is Princess Mononoke.

TV shows:

Knight Rider - Stu Phillips
The Simpsons - Elfman
The Twilight Zone - Herrmann?
CHiPs - forget the guys name, i know someone here found it, PeterK was it you?
Batman: The Animated Series - Walker
The Prisoner - Ron Grainer
The X-Files all season until they had to change the pictures - Mark Snow
MillenniuM - Mark Snow (Wow, was a dark and haunting theme)

TV shows with various episode pictures:
Time Trax - Garry McDonald & Laurie Stone
Perfect Strangers - i forget. It was a remake of a song.
Sliders - Danny Lux

The simplicity of the Woody Allen and Yasujiro Ozu titles

To Have and Have Not with its map of the Carribean and all that great Waxman

Memorable Saul Bass titles (with great music too): VERTIGO, PSYCHO, SPARTACUS (I think that was Bass?)

Great "establishing shots" title sequences, coming out of the sky, with great music: THE TOWERING INFERNO, THE CASSANDRA CROSSING, THE CARPETBAGGERS.

Exciting and unusual title sequences with split screen effects and great Lalo Schifrin/ Leonard Rosenman music: EYE OF THE CAT and THE CAR.

Another great Leonard Rosenman opener with spooky titles of burning trees: RACE WITH THE DEVIL.

Marvelous End Titles, with good music: The Corman/ Poe films. MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH has an animated hand turning over tarot cards.

Good recent ones: SEVEN (since much copied) and HOLLOW MAN (with those Alphabetti Spaghetti letters floating about).

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Originally posted by Ken S:
"What's the Superman Main Titles like?
- - Zooming text flys over and around the screen to John Williams blasting fanfare. It's stunning. Woo hoo!!"

Camillu & John Zimmer,

ACTUALLY THAT'S NOT ALL
When speaking of "Main Titles" I'm always impressed by the most carefully planned wholenesses - and SUPERMAN is indeed THE most favorite of mine. The sad part is that if one has seen only a blurred copy of this movie in small tv screen, one really can't see the point of SUPERMAN's opening - because it really HAS TO BE EXPERIENCED ON BIG SCREEN !!!

SUPERMAN starts with photographed curtains rolling away (like MOULIN ROUGE) to reveal the small, old-standard movie screen - I mean REALLY SMALL compared to Widescreen. There is the black 'n' white image of a Superman magazine (or was it "Action Comics"?) and a little girl's voice doing the prologue narration - with the stunning impressionistic musical background by John Williams. Then the drawn black 'n' white Daily Planet logo transforms into a "live one" and the camera zooms into the night sky - but still the screen keeps its small format. So, when finally the Superman logo bursts into the full Panavision widescreen, the result is simply cinema history - thousand times better and more thrilling than STAR WARS ever.

John Williams' music for this entire sequence is pure magic - every little snippet and nuance of it.

KEN

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Finally, finally got to watch this, after coming across a Superman I&II boxset in a bargain section at HMV in London yesterday. I must agree these Main Titles are great, and I'm pleased to say I saw them for the first time as they were meant to be - in glorious widescreen with the sound full-on.

quote:

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Originally posted by Ken S:
"What's the Superman Main Titles like?
- - Zooming text flys over and around the screen to John Williams blasting fanfare. It's stunning. Woo hoo!!"

Camillu & John Zimmer,

ACTUALLY THAT'S NOT ALL
When speaking of "Main Titles" I'm always impressed by the most carefully planned wholenesses - and SUPERMAN is indeed THE most favorite of mine. The sad part is that if one has seen only a blurred copy of this movie in small tv screen, one really can't see the point of SUPERMAN's opening - because it really HAS TO BE EXPERIENCED ON BIG SCREEN !!!

SUPERMAN starts with photographed curtains rolling away (like MOULIN ROUGE) to reveal the small, old-standard movie screen - I mean REALLY SMALL compared to Widescreen. There is the black 'n' white image of a Superman magazine (or was it "Action Comics"?) and a little girl's voice doing the prologue narration - with the stunning impressionistic musical background by John Williams. Then the drawn black 'n' white Daily Planet logo transforms into a "live one" and the camera zooms into the night sky - but still the screen keeps its small format. So, when finally the Superman logo bursts into the full Panavision widescreen, the result is simply cinema history - thousand times better and more thrilling than STAR WARS ever.

John Williams' music for this entire sequence is pure magic - every little snippet and nuance of it.

KEN

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actually its a little boy's voice, and when the image goes live, you see the moon and the camera zooms up over the moon.

the names in blue start streaming out of the screen, and the the giant S hits the screen with such force the entire theatre shook. Unfortunately the idiot who redid the sound for the dvd got it completely wrong and I guess that part is lost to us forever.

Spider-Man Main Title
Independence Day
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek First Contact
Air Force One
Star Wars of course
The Mummy

Batman
Eraser
ID4
US Marshalls
The Edge

The Wild Bunch

The Professionals

The Train

Grand Prix

Never So Few

Soldier of Fortune

In Love and War (Friedhofer)

just a few off the top of my head!

Valere