Best. Film. Intro. Ever.

[nytemare]

Contact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAUR7NQCLA

[XemaSab]

1. Best. Show. Intro. Ever.

321 Contact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXWhe1ucuM

[nytemare]

2. Quick froggy.

:)

[FredScuttle]

3. Touch of Evil

n/t

[sir_captain]

7. I'm going to have to agree with you on this one

I think I'd take Woody Allen's Manhattan as a close second.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Touch of Evil, yes, that's a great opening sequence

even if the movie has Charlton Heston and Marlene Dietrich playing Mexicans.

[begin_within]

4. I love that movie.

I saw it 4 times during its original theatrical run, I bought the VHS tape and then the DVD when it came out. (Stupidly I loaned it to someone, and of course I never got it back.)

[wildhorses]

5. this.is.it.hands.down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-7LQm88T4

[XemaSab]

10. Especially since that's not a Turkey Vulture

It's might be a condor, but it might be a king vulture. I'm not sure.

n/t

[wildhorses]

17. even better for this intro --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrY9p6pIsA&mode=related&search=

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Raising Arizona or Alien.

[gmoney]

12. Raising Arizona is just perfect...

Saw it on the big screen and the moment when the yodeling starts just gave me the greatest chill...

[jgraz]

8. Sorry, that 1/4 second of Spice Girls disqualifies it from consideration

:rofl:

[Madrone]

9. This is my - Best.Film.Intro.Ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIKlE47zBYE

:D

Thanks for sharing the Contact one. It's been so long I'd forgotten about it. AWESOME.

[XemaSab]

11. :rofl:

That is a film I have not seen, but I may need to avail myself of. :)

[Madrone]

22. Oh, you must.

:D

I love that movie, although I'd say the first 10 minutes has got to be the best part. LOL It's a great movie that's VERY quotable!

[gmoney]

13. "Dazed and Confused" gets off to a great start...

The music is Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" with that kind of bubbling intro as credits appear over black, then, just as the big cymbal crash hits, it cuts to an orange GTO doing a slow-motion turn in the school parking lot... perfection. I still get chills when I hear that song or see that intro.

[pokerfan]

15. You mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/v/fKCmmYuYrvs

Awesome movie.

"That's what I love about all these high school girls...."

[davsand]

18. Sweet Emotion is an ANTHEM for the late 70's, don't ya think?

I bet we ALL knew somebody that drove a GTO, too.

I graduated in 78, and I absolutely loved Dazed and Confused because it was SO very accurate to my high school experience. That intro remains, to this day, one of the BEST openings to a film that I have ever seen.



Laura

[gmoney]

20. yeah, except I seem to recall we had better wigs. :)

A few wigs in the movie just didn't cut it... otherwise it's pretty much perfect.

[davsand]

25. Yeah, there were some hair issues. No doubt.

So tell me, were you one of the sports Jocks (or Jockettes) one of the art/music jocks, or were you one the Student Council type people?

In my high school just about everybody was a drinker or stoner (unless they were part of the "God squad" in which case they would not have even understood Dazed and confused!) but there were "categories."


Me, myself, I was one of the art/music jocks. I managed to get thrown off student newspaper my Senior year for writing a regular column critical of the administration. The one that did me in was when I gave them crap for anti-drug policies.

:evilgrin:


Laura

[gmoney]

26. I was sort of the guy who had "Student" under his picture in the yearbook

Something close to an A/V geek, but on the fringes of the popular/non-stoner crowd. Didn't drink, stayed out of trouble for the most part, took pictures for the yearbook instead of playing sports. Generally clueless... not much has changed.

[pokerfan]

14. I only wish that they had made some attempt

to match up the times and distances.

I mean we hear Nixon’s resignation in the asteroid belt! Then JFK's assassination at Jupiter which is at most less than sixty light minutes distant. It isn't until we suddenly jump to the Eagle Nebula that the terrestrial radio signals finally die out. FWIW, the Eagle nebula is 7,000 light years aways. Radio has been around for little more than 100.

I thought a more accurate zoom out would have really driven home how small we are.

But overall a good movie.

I never understood why someone would set up a couple of telescopes for a meteor shower either.

But overall it's a good movie.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. According to that clip, the solar system is 60 light years across

Just sayin

[Richardo]

23. 60 light years in radius, right?

From Earth to Pluto? I don't remember the broadcasts heard at the edge of the system.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Yeah, on second thought

I was thinking 30 in radius - I heard "Wannabe" at the outset, going back to some clips from the 50's - but that's closer to 50+ years after all.

[onager]

19. Some history-geek faves.

Cross Of Iron--creepier and more chilling than any 10 horror-movie intros. Over a chorus of German children singing, iconic documentary footage of an ever more remote and god-like Adolf Hitler contrasts with footage of German soldiers wallowing thru blood and grime as WWII progresses. The screen occasionally goes awash in blood red.

The ending is also hair-raising, stopping on a black screen with a post-WWII quote from Bertholt Brecht: "Don't celebrate, you men. The world stood up and stopped the bastard this time. But the bitch that whelped him is still in heat."

The Jackal--yes, the classic stinker with Broose Willis and Diane Canova playing a scarred KGB...er, sorry, FSB agent. WTF were they thinking?

But the intro is great, summing up the history of modern Russia in just a few minutes. It begins with Russians toting icons of the Czar in parades, segues into them toting icons of Lenin and Marx, moves thru the fascinating Tractor Parades of the Stalin era, and eventually ends with Russia falling into post-Gorbachev chaos.

Great stuff. The director of the credits should have directed the whole movie. He or she couldn't have done any worse.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

21. I always liked the intro to

Catch Me if You Can:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEgK3nCkao