# Movies wherre the opening or closing credits are as good as or better than the movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722 "2019-05-29T17:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/41 "2019-05-31T05:09:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There are some cases where I’d gladly watch the credits over and over again, and the film is somewhat of a letdown afterwards. > … > > **Touch of Evil** – Easily the most suspenseful opening ever. True, but no credits. Technically, the way Welles wanted it edited (and it was re-released this way in 1998) there were neither credits nor score over the opening sequence. And I hope you’re not saying that the rest of the movie was a letdown. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/42 "2019-05-31T05:49:40Z")
I forget whether the sequence I’m thinking of is the first one or if it’s after some credits. Maybe there’s no opening credits at all. Anyway, there’s a four-minute sequence early in the 2017 movie _Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets_ which shows how the city of a thousand planets originated. It has the city being built by numerous alien races coming together. It’s a great sequence, and the rest of the movie is a disappointment in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/43 "2019-05-31T12:04:01Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Speaking of opening credits and “Police Squad”, the other great thing about them was that the opening credits would always include a short scene of the week’s Special Guest Star (an at least somewhat famous actor) getting murdered. The Guest Star would never appear again, and the murder would never be referenced in the show. Shortly before he died, John Belushi did one of these as a Mob rat getting the “cement overshoes” treatment. IIRC, he almost drowned for real in the tank of water they used. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/44 "2019-05-31T13:55:41Z")
The closing credits for “Wild Things” — they showed a ton of unseen footage that answered several questions from the main movie. Also, the closing credits for Rocky V were pretty good, as they used still pictures telling the entire story from all 5 movies. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/45 "2019-05-31T14:10:58Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > The closing credits for “Wild Things” — they showed a ton of unseen footage that **answered several questions** from the main movie. Answered, hell. The end credits remade the whole movie! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/46 "2019-05-31T15:31:47Z")
Sin City was rather dull, but the opening scene, “I’ll never know what she was running from. I’ll cash the check in the morning.” surprised me, a perfect start. I walked into Fury Road wanting to hate it because Mel Gibson was no longer the Road Warrior, but that opening sequence could not have been more of a roller coaster and a terrific restart to the franchise. Tom Hardy is the Road Warrior now. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/47 "2019-06-01T00:48:45Z")
Mannequin is an OK romcom (I really like it but more out of sentimentality than anything else) but has great animated opening credits telling the story of the Mannequin through history. I can’t find a watchable copy on Youtube though, just someone who’s filmed it with their phone but managed to miss most of the TV screen. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/48 "2019-06-01T01:00:57Z")
The end credits for Buckaroo Banzai always appealed to me. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/49 "2019-06-01T03:11:47Z")
Opening to _Plan 9_. Pants-shitting funny. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/50 "2019-06-01T03:52:26Z")
Opening credits of Fight Club. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722/51 "2019-06-02T01:20:49Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Mannequin is an OK romcom (I really like it but more out of sentimentality than anything else) but has great animated opening credits telling the story of the Mannequin through history. > > I can’t find a watchable copy on Youtube though, just someone who’s filmed it with their phone but managed to miss most of the TV screen. The opening credits are the work of the much-overlooked animator Sally Cruikshank: > **[Mannequin](https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/mannequin/)** She did the “animated cartoon” sequences from the **Twilight Zone** movie, but most of her stuff (like **Quasi at the Quackadero** ) has been out of the mainstream. You saw her stuff a lot at animation festivals. > **[Sally Cruikshank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Cruikshank)** > > Sarah Cruikshank (born 1949) is an American cartoonist, animator and artist, whose work includes animation for the Children's Television Workshop program Sesame Street, and whose short Quasi at the Quackadero (1975) was inducted into the United States National Film Registry. > Sally Cruikshank was born in Chatham, New Jersey, the daughter of parents Rose and Ernest. Her parents were both Southerners, with her father, an accountant who worked in nearby New York City, New York, holding a Phi Beta Ka... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-wherre-the-opening-or-closing-credits-are-as-good-as-or-better-than-the-movie/834722.md?page=2)