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AUGUST 25, 2009 12:24PM

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Awhile back, I published a blog with some of my favorite movie and TV opening credits, and invited commenters to share some of their favorites as well. I present them now -- the ones I could find, anyway.

For eastinidaho - Napoleon Dynamite:

For Min - Chariots of Fire:

For Trudge164 and Silkstone - The Pink Panther:

For Silkstone - Goldfinger and The Sopranos:

And a couple more of mine:

Here are the opening credits for the Showtime series Dexter, which is the story of a serial killer who lives by a very interesting "code of honor". I love the way this makes the most mundane everyday tasks involved in getting ready in the morning kind of macabre and almost violent.

And I also love the opening sequence from True Blood, which is practically the best part of the whole show. The singer, Jace Everett, lives in Nashville!

I'm always taking requests, so feel free to let me know if you've got a favorite you'd like to see here!

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I'm feeling very blah lately, and don't seem inspired to write about anything, hence this lazy post.

Jeanette DeMain

August 25, 2009 12:26 PM

Elf, bridget jones' diary

Kat C

August 25, 2009 12:56 PM

For me, it has to be the exciting, insane, and otherworldly opening titles for both the new and old Doctor Who.

And on a more arthouse level, I love the shameless effrontery of Blissfully Yours beginning its opening credits more than 40 minutes into the movie. It's one of many reasons that Apichatpong Weerasethakul is my favorite living movie director.

Mike Russell

August 25, 2009 01:27 PM

Movies: Star Wars is iconic and often imitated. And I always loved the opening for West Side Story.

Television: So many. Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, etc. etc etc

Nick Leshi

August 25, 2009 02:08 PM

I love the new Grace opening. Who plays it?

scanner

August 25, 2009 02:49 PM

Thanks for the return to the detritus of school daze!

eastinidaho

August 25, 2009 03:00 PM

great follow up post! (and not just cuz I got mentioned)

K was just said the other night, as we were watching the opening credits of Mad Men, "The Sopranos has the all-time best song over credits." And it's hard to disagree.

Silkstone

August 25, 2009 03:32 PM

I don't watch either Dexter or True Blood but agree both those credit sequences are great!

Silkstone

August 25, 2009 03:36 PM

what a dichotamy! Chariots of Fire, so contrarily mellow and purposeful, dreamy...

and then The Sopranos! Which always made me want to somehow have sex while driving a very fast car, with a throaty growl....

ConnieMack

August 25, 2009 03:37 PM

Whoo-hoo! My favorite made the cut!

Minuet

August 25, 2009 04:04 PM

I love True Blood!

Cherry Martini

August 25, 2009 04:06 PM

Miller's Crossing. Fallen leaves and fedora. And that song.

Craig Johnson

August 25, 2009 04:10 PM

I used to love the opening of Weeds ("Little Boxes") but am not wild about the new one. Interesting side not: the guy jogging in the first opening is the co-exec producer, an old friend of mine.

Rated.

john blumenthal

August 25, 2009 05:32 PM

I always loved the opening credits for the X-Files. I still miss Mulder and Sculley.

cave_canem

August 25, 2009 06:14 PM

I loved the opening credits of Battlestar Galactica . . .

ginseng

August 25, 2009 07:12 PM

What a fun post! Enjoyed this very much. I'd forgotten how neat the intro to Chariots of Fire was.

MJwycha

August 25, 2009 09:11 PM

Love it. You've tapped into my other posts! I totally forgot my favorite opening sequence of all time!!!!!! "The Graduate." It is theatrical perfection and film making at it's highest. I cannot tell you how many times I've watched that sequence--the look of delusion on Hoffman's face and the escalators keep going...... brilliance and perfection. There are other sequences in the film that also stop me in my tracks.... the summer one where Benjamin Braddock is going back and forth from swimming to the arms of Mrs Robinson...... after hundreds of views? Amazing.

And my finale nominee--"The Big Chill"--that's quite a punch line set to fantastic music........ Kevin Costner's best smallest role.

Renee Smith

August 25, 2009 09:58 PM

Wow, so many great suggestions from everyone! I've got lots of material for my next post, whenever that will be...

Jeanette DeMain

August 25, 2009 10:42 PM

i forgot about big love!

Kat C

August 26, 2009 10:58 PM

I don't know if you can find it, but the opening credit sequence of "The Long Riders" is beautifully shot, as is the entire movie.
Oh, and "Bambi Meets Godzilla" has great opening credits, which really are the entire movie.