I noticed this with Mannequin and Loverboy and even in Better off Dead there's cartoon stuff thrown in....you never see that any more either.
Can anyone think of any other movies that open with a cartoon???
Posted by TresFoxy (Member # 542) on :
Honey, I shrunk the kids, and Don't tell mom the babysitters dead ( yes I know it is a 90's movie but feels very 80's)that's it for now.
Posted by TheResurrection (Member # 2326) on :
One Crazy Summer I think.
Posted by Oreb (Member # 5007) on :
yeah, that's the first one that came to my mind
also, christmas vacation with chevy chase, that's an 80s movie, right? think it's from 1989.
one other thing I noticed: videos from soundtracs don't feature clips from the actual movies anymore. like don't you forget about me, or nothing's gonna stop us now, there's no stuff like that anymore
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Oreb-Christmas Vacation has to be one of the best cartoon openings to a movie. I totally forgot it...but I think it is so cute.
I also notice cartoons were incorporated in to alot of music videos in the 80's...
I just saw the video for "Who will you run to" by Heart...and they had those little animals running through the video...they were off the album cover...does anyone know what they symbolized??
I just saw the video for "Don't Answer Me" by The Alan Parsons Project...and from what all I saw ,it was all animated.
Posted by Oreb (Member # 5007) on :
who's that girl - madonna!
and as far as christmas vacation goes, I watch it every holliday season, that one and a christmas story
Posted by maxwellhauser (Member # 4968) on :
UHF is another - the whole Beverly Hillbillies thing.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
Don't Answer Me is probably one of my favorite video's ever. It's on Youtube.com if you want to see it.
We are DEVO
Posted by P.S It's Paul... (Member # 1022) on :
All of the Pink Panther movies (from 60s through 80s) did this, so it's not really a new phenomena for 80s movies......
Posted by AdventuresInGooniesitting (Member # 1882) on :
Troop Beverly Hills has a neat animated opening that was done by John Krisfalusi, who would later go on to create Ren & Stimpy. Playing over the opening is "Make it Big" by the Beach Boys, which is a very catchy song. (it also plays during the end credits, I believe)
Weekend at Bernie's 2 also has an animated opening...it was released in 1993, but it still has the 80s connection, being a sequel to an 80s movie and all...
Posted by raggedyman (Member # 4065) on :
Ruthless People
Posted by noikz (Member # 1000) on :
Didn't "Duplex" with Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore open with a cartoon sequence? (I know it's a 00's flick).
Posted by LONNIE (Member # 3934) on :
Animals is the name of the Heart Album, before cds were out.
Posted by maxwellhauser (Member # 4968) on :
Ruthless People also had a cartoon opening - just saw it again a few days ago.
Whatever happened to Helen Slater? She sure was easy on the eyes.
Posted by P.S It's Paul... (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by maxwellhauser: Whatever happened to Helen Slater? She sure was easy on the eyes.
She's been very busy working - whilst we remember stuff like Ruthless People, Supergirl and The Secret Of My Success, she's also done guest spots in Greys Anatomy, Law and Order, Boston Public, Will and Grace, Caroline In The City, Dream On, as well as a number of movies.
According to the IMDB, she stepped away from the business for a couple of years in the early 2000's, but is back working hard now.
Posted by Johnny Ringo (Member # 4977) on :
Don't Tell Her It's Me(The Boyfriend School) had an animated opening IIRC.
Posted by Spooka Lupa (Member # 2700) on :
Earth Girls Are Easy had a nifty cartoon opening, though it doesn't really have much to do with the movie other than some of them look like the characters and there are spaceships. None of the cartoon actually happens in the movie, but I guess it's just an intro.
City Slickers had a cartoon opening (90's, yeah). Grease also had that great intro (yep, 70's).
Personally, I think cartoons are okay to open a movie, but it's not really that great. I always skip forward through the Earth Girls intro because it goes on a little long and nothing much happens.
Posted by Nick (Member # 404) on :
Wasn't there someone who was famous for doing the Mannequin etc animated intro's?
Posted by P.S It's Paul... (Member # 1022) on :
According to IMDB, Sally Cruikshank is credited with this, as well as the animated sequences in Twilight Zone, Top Secret!,Ruthless People, and Madhouse.
Posted by SHOGUN (Member # 477) on :
whose that girl?
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Two that I know of are Creepshow along with Just Ask for Diamond.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Animated sequences in movies.....
I'm duty bound to mention Terry Gilliam and Monty Python here.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Another one I have just thought of: Creepshow 2.
Posted by Bamersy (Member # 8808) on :
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