# Best opening credits ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083 "2008-01-11T04:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/41 "2008-01-11T18:27:48Z")
The music that plays at the beginning of _Music & Lyrics_ is hilarious. My favorite part is the very unenthusiastic dancing of the drummer in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/42 "2008-01-11T18:41:48Z")
Seconded **GI Joe: The Movie**. The first time I saw that I actually had to take a break before continuing. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/43 "2008-01-11T19:16:22Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] Raising Arizona [/QUOTE] I was going to mention that. When I saw it in the theater and the credits started I was kinda stunned for a moment. Oh yeah, we haven’t seen the credits yet. Great start to one of the finest movies ever filmed. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/44 "2008-01-11T19:41:47Z")
I came in here to add **Seven** , so instead I’ll go with the vignettes of the daily grind offered at the beginning of **Clerks** and **Office Space**. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/45 "2008-01-11T19:44:37Z")
Most of mine are already taken…☹ _Monsters, Inc._ _Mallrats_, especially on the subsequent viewings _The Great Race_, similar to the _Superman_ ones, but funny. _Edward Scissorhands_ and on TV: _Star Trek: Voyager_ ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/46 "2008-01-11T21:43:31Z")
I liked the opening sequence of the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Kind of encapsulates what is going on all over the world at the time. All to some Johnny Cash, which was just about the perfect pick, imo. Think I’ll watch it again when the boss leaves… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/47 "2008-01-12T03:16:52Z")
**Airplane!** ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/48 "2008-01-12T03:32:14Z")
I’ve always been kinda partial to the opening credits for _Bullitt_: a mini-movie that shows why Johnny Ross ends up lighting out for San Fran, with a great Lalo Schifrin score. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/49 "2008-01-12T03:57:09Z")
Two Star Trek series for me: Voyager and DS9 have the best theme music. Whoever came up with that lameass song for the intro to Enterprise should be beaten severely about the head and shoulders. Movies: Bridge on the River Kwai. Col. Bogey’s march, don’t ya know! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/50 "2008-01-12T05:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] Imaginary Forces has done some great work, particularly for [Seven](http://imaginaryforces.com/project/110). [/QUOTE] That’s the one I came in to mention. Those credits really set a tone. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/51 "2008-01-12T06:41:42Z")
Gotta mention Fincher’s other great opening credit: **Fight Club.** Set to the rhythms of the Dust Bros., as we pull away from neurons firing in “jack’s” brain, and all the way out of a sweat gland between his eyes, down the barrel of the gun that’s stuffed in his mouth. _Pure adrenalin._ ETA: [Fight Club opening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJh1aXi7r0) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/52 "2008-01-12T15:38:52Z")
[The opening credits of the HBO series _Rome_,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzd1szJLFoI) with their animated Roman graffiti and statuary. Oh, and [here are those opening credits from _Se7en_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY). ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/53 "2008-01-12T21:45:24Z")
Raising Arizona… ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/54 "2008-01-13T00:36:46Z")
Somebody has beaten me to **Airplane!** , but I have to warn you, it will be meaningless unless you have seen and remember the the original **Jaws**. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083/55 "2008-01-13T01:43:22Z")
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned: the creepiness of _Dexter_ (which makes ordinary tasks like making breakfast and getting dressed for work look sinister and scary), the nightmarish bleakness of _Seven_, the intensity of _Fight Club_, and the total breakdown of civilization set to Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” in _Dawn of the Dead '04_. But the most awe-inspiring opening sequence for me, along with a few others here, has to be _G.I. Joe: The Movie_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-credits-ever/433083.md?page=2)