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Camillu Standard Userer	I'm talking about music + images. A few that spring to mind: Planet of the Apes (the Tim Burton one) Se7en Star Wars The Usual Suspects Sleepy Hollow and for effective simplicity: ET & Jurassic Park [Message edited by Camillu on 06-12-2002]
posted 06-11-2002 11:24 PM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	SUPERMAN!!!!!!!!!!
posted 06-11-2002 11:33 PM PT (US)

SFT Standard Userer	Anything by Elfman. SFT
posted 06-12-2002 01:08 AM PT (US)

Kyriacos S Standard Userer	Chicken Run has a pretty funny main title sequence- (John Powell-Harry Gregson Williams) K
posted 06-12-2002 01:14 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	What's the Superman Main Titles like? (shame on me I know... but I've only seen Superman ages ago on TV)
posted 06-12-2002 03:17 AM PT (US)

mgh Standard Userer	my vote for the greatest ever is WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. Elmer Bernstein's music plays while a black cat walks; it was designed by Saul Bass.
posted 06-12-2002 03:30 AM PT (US)

Laurence Page Standard Userer	I thought the Planet of the Apes title sequence was the best thing in the film! How about: Alien OHMSS Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die CE3K (short and to the point!) Psycho The Wild Bunch Altered States Breakdown Good subject!
posted 06-12-2002 03:45 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Camillu: What's the Superman Main Titles like? (shame on me I know... but I've only seen Superman ages ago on TV) Zooming text flys over and around the screen to John Williams blasting fanfare. It's stunning. Woo hoo!! Jz
posted 06-12-2002 04:54 AM PT (US)

JJH Standard Userer	Spartacus
posted 06-12-2002 04:56 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Standard Userer	I actually really like the ORIGINAL Planet Of The Apes opening. When looking at the titles without any music, who could have possibly anticipated that kind of score? Brilliant! Shaun
posted 06-12-2002 06:04 AM PT (US)

monkey Standard Userer	Verhoeven / Goldsmith collaboration films always have a nice synthesis of music and image. NP: Dragonfly **/***
posted 06-12-2002 06:27 AM PT (US)

metaphor123 Standard Userer	Without even having finished reading the topic title, "Superman".
posted 06-12-2002 06:50 AM PT (US)

dgoldwas Standard Userer	I know I have like 270 other sequences I can think of, but for some reason, STARGATE just popped into my head.... Dan
posted 06-12-2002 07:15 AM PT (US)

jeffy unregistered	Like Dan, I have millions of main titles in my head, but I really did love the opening of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its use of music.
posted 06-12-2002 09:01 AM PT (US)

Bond1965 Standard Userer	Well...almost anything by Maurice Binder who did the Bond titles. Also love his non-Bond stuff like "Charade," "Arabesque," "The Tamarind Seed," and "The Awakening." Of course Saul Bass is great too. His Hitchcock stuff like "Vertigo," "North by Northwest," and "Psycho" are classics. As is the aforementioned "Spartacus" title he did for Kubrick. Recently I saw a Spanish film called "Second Skin" which had one of the most beautiful main title sequences with additionally beautiful music by Roque Banos. We must remember that it is that melding of visuals AND music that is so wonderful...and rarely done anymore. James
posted 06-12-2002 09:06 AM PT (US)

Jeron Standard Userer	The Avengers was always fun for me... I remember being enthralled by McNeely's main title. City Slickers 2 is great. Last of the Dogmen is beautiful. Jeron
posted 06-12-2002 09:13 AM PT (US)

Kyriacos S Standard Userer	2001:A Space Odyssey k
posted 06-12-2002 10:35 AM PT (US)

Philipp Standard Userer	I thought the main titles for PANIC ROOM were pretty stunning. Simple, yet effective. Just like the movie itself. Philipp
posted 06-12-2002 11:36 AM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	Pearl Harbor (just the opening in general) Armageddon Black Hawk Down Arlington Road Se7en Dumb and Dumber Gone In 60 Seconds Bad Boys (had some awesome arial views) Enemy Of The State Moulin Rouge Stigmata Daylight Speed 2: Cruise Control The Fan Unbreakable Mask Of Zorro Backdraft Bone Collector Scream trilogy House On Haunted Hill That's about it... Clayton
posted 06-12-2002 11:45 AM PT (US)

Kosh Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by scoreguy16: Scream trilogy Funny how SCREAM doesn't even have a main title sequence. Title. Phone ringing. Drew Barrymore and popcorn. Kosh (who loves SCREAM's end titles)
posted 06-12-2002 11:57 AM PT (US)

Bradley Standard Userer	Star Wars (easy pick) Superman Darkman TRON The Great Escape Spider-Man Ice Age Batman ANTZ Chicken Run Almost Every James Bond Title sequence [Message edited by Bradley on 06-12-2002]
posted 06-12-2002 12:02 PM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	I been pondering.. which is my favorite Star Trek opening sequence... and I'm still not sure, but I'll try to put in in my current favorite order: Star Trek VI Star Trek III Star Trek Star Trek IV Star Trek V Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek II Star Trek: Insurrection Star Trek: Generations
posted 06-12-2002 12:14 PM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Kosh: Funny how SCREAM doesn't even have a main title sequence. Title. Phone ringing. Drew Barrymore and popcorn. Is that not a sequence? Clayton
posted 06-12-2002 12:18 PM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	Honey I Shrunk the Kids And to add to the great David Fincher sequences mentioned so far: Fight Club [Message edited by Camillu on 06-12-2002]
posted 06-12-2002 12:58 PM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Standard Userer	There was atopic like this at another forum a few years back and there were some great titles mentioned. I have my own extensive list but don't have time to put it down now. But one recent example of a very nice conceptual title design married to the most appropriate music was Hollow Man. Those swirling, microscopic letters forming the credits to Jerry Goldsmith's sinewy music was better than most of the movie itself.
posted 06-12-2002 01:05 PM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	Oh, oh! I know, I know! PSYCHO! I love the main titles with the music. Both the original and the remake.
posted 06-12-2002 01:24 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	It's pretty hard to knock any of the Saul Bass or Maurice Binder titles. [A current car commercial is using the same multiple split-screen effect that Bass designed for the Grand Prix main title.] I like the Goldfinger titles as well which were done by John Hollingsworth (I believe). There have been too many good ones recently to keep track of the films and the title designers. The titles to Spike Lee's Jungle Fever were amazing though, about 4 billion X better than the film that followed them. Back in the 80s, I remember loving the Last Embrace titles. Sisters has some intense titles. Bloodline. The Re-Animator. Thinking back there have been some great TV show title sequences, these tend to be much better than most done for films. This is an interesting topic, wish I could come up with more just off the top of my head like this, but I'm drawing a blank.
posted 06-12-2002 10:12 PM PT (US)

SPQR Standard Userer	Spartacus - Saul Bass and Alex North were a match made in heaven. POTA (1968) Flash Gordon (1980) The Untouchables Chinatown Lion in Winter Seconds The Good, the Bad and The Ugly and other I can't think about right now...
posted 06-13-2002 01:55 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Standard Userer	Raiders of the Lost Ark. Awesome scene. So mysterious with Williams score. Jz
posted 06-13-2002 04:47 AM PT (US)

nightwing Standard Userer	Batman Edward Scissorhands Terminator 2 that's all I can think of right now to add
posted 06-13-2002 10:28 PM PT (US)

Ken S Standard Userer	"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
posted 06-14-2002 04:40 AM PT (US)

dgoldwas Standard Userer	Ken, that's no little girl's voice! That's a little boy's voice.... ya think little girls were avid comic book readers back in the 70s?? Dan
posted 06-14-2002 08:19 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	Hmmm. Must rent Superman..... Another one I remembered - Godzilla. The Main Titles and Jean Reno's Elvis impression were the only good things about the movie, IMO.
posted 06-14-2002 09:42 AM PT (US)

dgoldwas Standard Userer	THE BLACK HOLE. Awesome main titles. Dan
posted 06-14-2002 01:14 PM PT (US)

Dylan Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by dgoldwas: THE BLACK HOLE. Awesome main titles. Dan Great choice Dan. Some favorites of mine: Vertigo The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Mysterious Island North by Northwest Oscar Re-Animator Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (this is colorful credits with the black background and Elfman's score..pretty simple, but it sets the tone for the film very well) Howard the Duck It's Alive Edward Scissorhands Spellbound ..and there are many more I have not thought of.
posted 06-14-2002 06:01 PM PT (US)

Dylan Standard Userer	And more pop into mind: Puppetmaster Mars Attacks (possibly my second favorite thing about the film {the first favorite being Elfman's score} is the main title sequence) The Day The Earth Stood Still Beetlejuice ...possibly more to come [Message edited by Dylan on 06-15-2002]
posted 06-14-2002 06:05 PM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	Ah, yes... Mars Attacks!. I got one for you. This one is pretty cool: Ed Wood I love the images and music on this one. A lot of fun!
posted 06-14-2002 11:22 PM PT (US)

Kyriacos S Standard Userer	How about "The Ninth Gate"? Really spooky opening... k
posted 06-15-2002 08:46 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Kyriacos S: How about "The Ninth Gate"? Really spooky opening... Hehe. Pun intended?
posted 06-15-2002 09:13 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Standard Userer	I wish I could see Superman in the theaters. I can't think of how awesome that would be. Jz NP: Attack of the Clones (The Imperial March part! )
posted 06-15-2002 06:42 PM PT (US)

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