31 day movie meme #18
Jul. 18th, 2016 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieDay 18 - favourite title sequence
Well, I’m going to offer up a podium finish of three contenders here.
In third place, because it;s the most recent, and so may be stuck in my head to an unfair degree: Deadpool. In second place, Casino Royale (2006) - aside from loving the song, I like the ay the animation style is both modern but also reflects an aesthetic of the time when the original novel was published. I love how the various kills Bond makes in the movie are prefigured in the titles too.
But the winner is Watchmen here. (Be warned, the video has a cover version of the song, and so overwrites the sound effects, but is the most complete version of the visuals I could find on Youtube.) It does offer a big problem for the film, actually - especially if you know your history and the graphic novel - because it's such a great sequence, almost an arthouse movie in its own right, that nothing else in the film can or does quite live up to it... But that still makes it my favourite title sequence.
(Insert shoutout to the Pink Panther movies here...)
Well, I’m going to offer up a podium finish of three contenders here.
In third place, because it;s the most recent, and so may be stuck in my head to an unfair degree: Deadpool. In second place, Casino Royale (2006) - aside from loving the song, I like the ay the animation style is both modern but also reflects an aesthetic of the time when the original novel was published. I love how the various kills Bond makes in the movie are prefigured in the titles too.
But the winner is Watchmen here. (Be warned, the video has a cover version of the song, and so overwrites the sound effects, but is the most complete version of the visuals I could find on Youtube.) It does offer a big problem for the film, actually - especially if you know your history and the graphic novel - because it's such a great sequence, almost an arthouse movie in its own right, that nothing else in the film can or does quite live up to it... But that still makes it my favourite title sequence.
(Insert shoutout to the Pink Panther movies here...)