I've been watching Lucas while getting ready for work....and the opening credits really are lovely and unique....Lucas font in cursive alongside a locust and the shots of Lucas with his net are actual very picturesque.
One thing I notice alot are so many 80's movies have the worst fonts and graphics for credits haha
yet some have the best....ie: Cartoon opening credits....MANNEQUIN! TROOP BEVERLY HILLS! TBH always comes to mind because I went and saw it in the theater with my Girl Scout group and the opening credits are my most vivid memory.
Got any favorite opening credits?
Posted by Fightertown (Member # 7418) on 14 June, 2010 12:58:
The Goonies & Top Gun
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on 14 June, 2010 14:02:
How about "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" and how it introduced us to all the main characters .. Sherman Oaks Galleria style!
Posted by TKO (Member # 1471) on 14 June, 2010 16:28:
Summer School
Summer vacation is almost there.. (or so we thought). Everyone is turning in their books (some ripped, some still brand new). We get introduced to Chainsaw, Dave, Mr. Shoop and the others, on the great Danny Elfman tune: Happy. And that is exactly what this introduction makes me every time I see it: HAPPY.
The Burbs
Another opening credit I like very much. The film starts with the Universal 'globe' logo but keeps zooming in on it, till we reach the Klopek's house. Then... a dramatic organ chord... Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on 14 June, 2010 23:42:
Fast Times....awesome the famous Galleria....another great mall intro Valley Girl!
Summer School.......Awesome pick.........
Here's one I know the men on here love....Elizabeth Shue dancing around..........what a set-up with the line "ok Chris just relax tonight is going to be the best night of your life" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nly-bfguf4k Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on 15 June, 2010 00:21:
maanequin -in your wildest dreams/belinda c was a good song for the cartoon opening was always great to watch. I also liked thrashin at the time it was out. But anyone with ADD must have liked the goonies. My all time favourite though has got to be Jack burton/kurt Russel driving the truck with that guitar music in Big trouble In Little China.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on 15 June, 2010 03:23:
Muffy.. the opening to "Adventures In Babysitting" with Chris Parker lipsynching and dancing around to "Then He Kissed Me" is an Awesome choice!!
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Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on 15 June, 2010 15:08:
How about "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on 16 June, 2010 07:11:
The opening of Tuff Turf. A dark, urban, foreboding setting with Marianne Faithfull's immistakeable croak playing while James Spader is riding his bike.
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on 16 June, 2010 12:44:
Some great ones so far, Rocky III and IV were pretty memorable, Ghostbusters, Top Gun.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on 18 June, 2010 03:47:
Why hasn't anybody broached the opening credits for "RAD"?
Those incredible BMX feats! Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on 18 June, 2010 04:03:
Thrashin. The way they get the whole of Coreys road trip into the opening credits and it sets the scene for the whole film.
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on 18 June, 2010 08:42:
great topic!
i agree about troop beverly hills with the animation and the beach boys song, "make it big." i love that song!
i like sixteen candles opening with kajagoogoo and the high school sequences.
i even like the opening credits to return of the living dead with the scary theme music and the movie showing how everything comes in to play with the chemical getting out into the graveyard.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on 18 June, 2010 08:47:
Ronnie I love the Return of the Living Dead theme music...good one!! it sets up the story and almost is a throwback to old horror movies. Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on 18 June, 2010 19:38:
I'll throw out a cliche: All the 'Star Wars' movies.
Lucas is actually a fave of mine too
Goonies, Tootsie, Ghostbusters, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink. There's loads!
Posted by gordongecko (Member # 4685) on 24 June, 2010 06:37:
I love the Goonies opener! Also really enjoy Fast Times, man I love that movie.
Ghostbusters and Back to the Future get two thumbs up as well.
Great topic, it's really making me think.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on 24 June, 2010 08:13:
In a sleepy state I watched a movie A Little Sex last night but the intro was so 80's
The flame of a match close up....then it lights a cigarette....the credits start coming in, cursive in neon pink....lol then the whole time with a black background you watch the cigarette burn til it's inches of ash and falls....totally creative opening for a long drama about cheating.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on 24 June, 2010 10:02:
Devolution here,
I'm going to say One Crazy Summer.
We are DEVO
Posted by nacho rasines (Member # 8782) on 26 June, 2010 03:12:
i've not seen many but the goonies and lucas are great for its openings
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on 28 June, 2010 04:43:
"Night of the Creeps."
Its commencing credits are well worthy of mention.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on 09 August, 2010 04:00:
"Squizzy Taylor."
I am partial to the presentation of them.
Posted by Pyromantic (Member # 7658) on 09 August, 2010 11:11:
One of my favorite opening 80's scenes still has to be "Ghostbusters". Even though the credits don't actually appear until after the opening scene....I think that'd still count, right?...
Other honorable mentions: Ladyhawke, Short Curcuit, RAD, Dirty Dancing, Rocky IV, The Outsiders, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Poltergeist (for the intro music...still one of the creepiest.), Spaceballs, Staying Alive, UHF, Little Shop of Horrors....ect..ect.
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Posted by Secret Admirer (Member # 3574) on 09 August, 2010 14:07:
I totally agree on Ghostbusters' opening.
Speed Zone! has an awesome opening...with the red Lambo Countach skipping across the water like a stone, haha Posted by Princess Pooh (Member # 5798) on 11 August, 2010 03:32:
The Lost Boys for me.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on 17 August, 2010 22:46:
Galaxy of Terror.
The desolate, barren landscape giving way to the crashed spaceship is very eerie. Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on 20 September, 2010 03:47:
Just Ask for Diamond.
The comic book style commencing credits is quite fetching. Posted by Burnett (Member # 9924) on 30 August, 2011 04:12:
The credits in Better off Dead are really cool.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on 30 August, 2011 08:04:
quote:Originally posted by Burnett: The credits in Better off Dead are really cool.
Agreed!
Savage Steve Holland had amazing opening credits.......One Crazy Summer, How I Got Into College, Better Off Dead!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on 30 August, 2011 08:11:
Caddyshack
Posted by gotta go back (Member # 9818) on 30 August, 2011 10:10:
Having a tough time remembering alot of opening credits but came up with a few likeable ones:
Vaction Breakfast Club Have grown to really like the Real Genius opening and Any 007 film.
Posted by KDawg33 (Member # 6143) on 06 September, 2011 07:03:
Adventures in Babysitting
Worth the price just for Elizabeth Shue dancing and lip-syncing.
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