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Post by cahvaydweller on Apr 12, 2014 12:12:43 GMT -5
What are your favorite opening credit sequences for MSTed films? For me, I love credits with songs, so my favorites are “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”, “Operation Double 007”, and “Moon Zero Two”. |
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 12, 2014 12:42:46 GMT -5
I don't know about entire sequences... but I've always got a soft spot for the Miles O'Keefe joke from Cave Dwellers. (And, really... I kinda disliked that opening sequence entirely except for that particular joke.)
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 12, 2014 14:04:34 GMT -5
Favorite good opening credits sequence design, or favorite bad design? Might as well do both...
My favorite good opening credits sequences:
1. The Crawling Hand: Kinda cool, really, that shot from the spacecraft cockpit looking over the astronaut's shoulder while the credits explode in front of him.
2. Girls' Town: Also pretty cool, with that long, long shot from the front seat of the car. "Congressman, you're crossing the center line... Congressman, please, look out!"
3. Girl In Gold Boots: Ooohhh, la la! I don't care what anybody says.
4. Teenage Caveman: Corman's movies may have been crap, but a lot of their opening credits sequences were really pretty neat. This is my favorite of all the Corman flicks on MST3K. My overall fave, though, would have to be the opening credits design for Dementia 13.
5. Hercules And The Captive Women: The scrolling faux Greek pottery art with the shifting colors behind it and the credits in that kind of primal faux-ancient Greek typeface is really sweet. In fact, that's a bit of early work by a studio called Filmation, that went on to produce the animated Superman series in the late '60s (which I hated).
My favorite bad opening credits sequences:
1. Fire Maidens Of Outer Space: WT ever-lovin F? No consistency in the type, the title done in that weak, flouncy type... cripes. "...and, the Skating Fire Maidens!"
2. Wild Wild World Of Batwoman: Jeezus, it looks like somebody threw up on the first three minutes of the film.
3. Wild Rebels: opening credits sequence filmed in GlaucomaVision. Who the hell picked those colors?
4. Cavé Dwellers: Can't get enough of that odd cropping, that boring type obviously set up on a video character-generation system, the cheesy video effex treatment, the shots that aren't even from the same frickin' movie, that cheesy Danny Elfman synthesizer music... it all comes together so beautifully.
5. Space Mutiny: This opening credits design sets the bar that all the others try to do the limbo under... those nasty transitions that look like they were animated on a Tandy 2000, that tinny, weak-assed synthesizer music -- "...looks like somebody's got themselves a new Yamaha DX7...". I watched in slack-jawed, wide-eyed wonder as these credits unfolded in front of me -- before I started laughing like a lunatic.
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Post by outlawofmitchell on Apr 13, 2014 17:09:31 GMT -5
Moon Zero Two, Cave Dwellers, Pod People, Stranded in Space and Catalina Caper all stick out but I am sure there are more.
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Post by Monophylos on Apr 13, 2014 18:17:50 GMT -5
I genuinely like the song that opens Operation Double 007; I mean, it's fun and goofy, like the movie.
Favorite bad opening credits? Probably any time the movie was inexplicably given a new set of opening credits using footage from some other movie that often looks more interesting. Pod People and Cave Dwellers come to mind.
I'd also love to know who thought that a blurry close-up of Mitchell bugging out his eyes and crushing someone's head with a rock was the best way to introduce the hero in the credits. You can barely even tell what's supposed to be going on. Weren't there better action sequences of Mitchell to use?
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 13, 2014 21:32:57 GMT -5
...Favorite bad opening credits? Probably any time the movie was inexplicably given a new set of opening credits using footage from some other movie that often looks more interesting. Pod People and Cave Dwellers come to mind... They do that in the re-done tacked-on opening credits sequence for Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster as well. It almost looks as if it were released by the same hack outfit that re-released Space Travelers, Pod People, and Cavé Dwellers under different titles than their original titles. |
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 14, 2014 16:43:55 GMT -5
Village of the Giants is a simmering pile of armadillo feces, but it has an awesome opening sequence. The great song The Last Race, and a youthful Joy Harmon dancing scantily clad? Actually, that's how I imagine heaven to be -- and then once she finishes dancing, she washes your car.
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Post by Mr. Daniel Lumis on Apr 16, 2014 17:49:54 GMT -5
Catalina Caper had that animated sequence that reminded me of the old Pink Panther cartoons. And "Never Steal Anything Wet" is just darned hum-able.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 18, 2014 1:16:02 GMT -5
Moon Zero Two, Cave Dwellers, Pod People, Stranded in Space and Catalina Caper all stick out but I am sure there are more. As compared to the actual movie itself, I'd say that the opening credits sequence is the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment in Moon Zero Two. |
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 18, 2014 1:21:38 GMT -5
Village of the Giants is a simmering pile of armadillo feces, but it has an awesome opening sequence. The great song The Last Race, and a youthful Joy Harmon dancing scantily clad? Actually, that's how I imagine heaven to be -- and then once she finishes dancing, she washes your car. If you dug "The Last Race", you might also want to check out a couple of other awesome Jack Nitzche tracks from that era: "The Lonely Surfer", and "Rumble": |
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 21, 2014 10:36:12 GMT -5
Last Race is an awesome tune, and it was recycled by Quentin Tarantino in Death Proof.
I'll have to listen to those other tunes when the music blaring out of my workstation will not startle my co-workers....
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 24, 2014 18:51:05 GMT -5
...I'd also love to know who thought that a blurry close-up of Mitchell bugging out his eyes and crushing someone's head with a rock was the best way to introduce the hero in the credits. You can barely even tell what's supposed to be going on. Weren't there better action sequences of Mitchell to use? Well, you've seen Mitchell; you ought to know the answer to that one. (;^> |
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 28, 2014 16:42:39 GMT -5
There are deleted scenes in which he attacks a hero sandwich with all the energy he seems to lack in the action sequences that made it into the movie -- they should have used those....
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Post by mrmeadows on May 4, 2014 17:23:57 GMT -5
Assume you mean for us to consider the actual opening sequences themselves, minus the riffing, right?
Because EEGAH's credit sequence has some killer riffs ("Hey, we've got demons flippin' us off! Back at ya, Clyde!", "Is that a read poncho or a Sears poncho", etc.), but it's a pretty lame opening.
I dig CATALINA CAPER's opening animation, but hate that song that plays over it. Agree VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS has a pretty decent open, thanks in part to the music.
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Post by Cubey on May 21, 2014 11:03:07 GMT -5
I don't know about entire sequences... but I've always got a soft spot for the Miles O'Keefe joke from Cave Dwellers. (And, really... I kinda disliked that opening sequence entirely except for that particular joke.) I like the joke: "Hmm.. Borromel. The thorough but gentle laxative". (To save you looking up who that was in the film, since I already have, it was the boring old dad) Although the "Rustichelli" and "John Newman spaghetti sauce" thing was also good. |
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