Movies that use a great song in the opening credits

biggebruv

I like when a good song plays through the opening credits of a movie with good effect and sets you into the movie this is mostly done in comedy’s most recently I watched the young offenders and heard paper planes by M.I.A. which works great in the movie.

Skyfall by Adele was another good one great song and great intro to the movie

Anyone got any good suggestions ?

banie01

Deadpool, actually while Deadpool wasnt an MCU movie, Marvel in general really do a good job of the opening track setting the movie's tone.
Trainspotting
Die Hard with a vengance
Watchmen
Grosse Point Blank are all movies that stand out in my memory as having really strong opening tracks.

biggebruv

banie01 wrote: »

Deadpool, actually while Deadpool wasnt an MCU movie, Marvel in general really do a good job of the opening track setting the movie's tone.
Trainspotting
Die Hard with a vengance
Watchmen
Grosse Point Blank are all movies that stand out in my memory as having really strong opening tracks.

Yes the Deadpool one was great so funny that opening:D

johnny_ultimate

I've brought it up in threads of this ilk before, but always worth celebrating the two-minute masterpiece of the late, great Satoshi Kon in this regard. In his last completed film Paprika, he offered up the great opening credit sequence of the 21st century. The way it treats screen space and time as storytelling devices and barriers to smash through; the fact that it wordlessly explains the film's high-concept setup; the way the text is almost projected onto the environment; the sheer wit and inventiveness of the imagery. And to top it off, a song that is basically joy and energy incarnate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0v-NuudQw

Wedwood

Flash Gordon https://youtu.be/Xfc_CrwiE4Y

Goldfinger https://youtu.be/6D1nK7q2i8I

dan1895

Top Gun and The Lion King. That is all.

John_Rambo

Layer Cake - She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult.

Audi RS6 (estate version for the sake of dignity)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtug7J592E8

Followed later by a shockingly violent scene to the soundtrack of Duran Duran Ordinary World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6WEatV1oEc

Slydice

I liked the one in Hackers (Orbital - Halycon):

Ronney

Lord of War

https://youtu.be/VHn1zogeyO4

Tony EH

'Across 110th Street'

or alternatively

'Jackie Brown'

CatFromHue

Drive

mooseknunkle

The Snapper.

Exclamation Marc

Bit of a crap answer but The Pink Panther score by Henry Mancini is wonderful. The tone is perfect for the films.

Honourable shout outs to the recent version of Dawn of the Dead (Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash) , Do The Right Thing, Apocalypse Now and Saturday Night Fever.

Zaph

Little Green Bag at the start of Reservoir Dogs. Even Chris Penn almost looked cool walking down the street to this.

Arne_Saknussem

Mean Streets

budgemook

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (US version)

A fantastic cover of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song featuring Karen O and Trent Reznor with a fantastic music video type sequence to go with it. I remember seeing it in the cinema, the and thinking Yeah! I am ready for this movie.

More should do it.

Relikk

Can't You Hear Me Knocking by The Rolling Stones used as the opening for Blow is one that stands out, for me.

adrian522

Intermission....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EGCC9NNvo

Lorelli!

True Romance

Davidth88

The one that springs to mind is apocalypse now .....

KrakityJones

Don't think it was right at the very start but the intro scene in the Departed - Shipping up to Boston

loyatemu

QT knows how to open a film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1yt38A9-E

Colonel Claptrap

Lorelli!

buried

To Live and Die in LA and that brilliant Wang Chung track. "I'm getting too old for this $hit"

banie01

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

(Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash)

I thought this track's use in Logan was excellent, but alas it was at the end

Gonad

Human traffic

(Fatboy slim ) remind me of my youth going clubbing and talking ****

tricky D

The Battle of Algiers intro from Ennio Morricone - functionally sets the tone and mood suberbly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjix9x8RzVU

loyatemu

You could also choose many of the Bond movies (but definitely not Die Another Day):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjcN609cm4

Savman

Gimme Shelter in The Departed

Lorelli!

CrankyHaus

and maybe not a great song but a fairly great intro using the song:

Lastly the Cemetery Junction intro that segues from the job interview to Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright is the best part of a poor film. I couldn't find the full scene on Youtube.

Great idea for a thread, some excellent films posted.

xtal191

nix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUHamXmUAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAvTn3uz5w

And my personal favourite movie opening/song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvomyYkIPY

AndyBoBandy

Tropic Thunder

Absolutely kick ass intro that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a serious Vietnam blockbuster.

fawful

Over the Top - "In This Country" by Robin Zander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucM9qEk1pIc

such a good movie too, everyone was arm wrestling for months after it came out

The Wizard - "You Don't Get Much" by BoDeans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBuxBpiVr7k

it may have been just an advert for mario 3 but it was still an awesome movie

way too many to list but a few more I quite like

American Flyers - "Brand new day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8HskKkdlds
best cycling movie

Rad - 'Break The Ice' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfAIGVDC3mg
2nd best cycling movie

3 O'clock High - "Something to Remember Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-dZ4Pwl6gY
nearly as good as ferris bueller

Less than Zero: "Hazy Shade of Winter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
with the instrumental before it

Cannonball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
if engine noise is allowed :pac:

funny enough they are all 80s movies

Lorelli!

Really liked the opening to Fallen with the song Time is on my side.

CatFromHue

The Stand is a great shout!

Lorelli!

CatFromHue wrote: »

The Stand is a great shout!

The intro of that scared the life out of me when I was a kid.

Watched a bit of it a couple of months ago and it hasn't really aged that well. I haven't read the book and I've never watched it through and seen what happens at the end.

That's one I'd like to see done again better because the story is good and has potential.

CatFromHue

Without spoiling it the end is a very Stephen King end, if you know what I mean by a Stephen King ending!

Movie Maestro

Lord of War has an amazing intro song...

https://youtu.be/oj89D2u8b3s

biZrb

Trainspotting

wytek

Justice League
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3G0rAwOIVI

My favorite bar none!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVx4LafsvSU

Roger Hassenforder

Matt Monro with a Lamborghini Miura on an Alpine climb.
Perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJuVOrXv68

Sheridan81

THe Lost Boys-People Are Strange

thebull85

Blow, with Johnny Depp.

Cant you hear me knocking by the Rolling Stones.

thebull85

Also the opening theme of, The Delta Force.

Sheridan81

The Quentin Tarantino film with Bang, Bang My Baby Shot Me Down.

Slydice

Previously On Rocky ..

Creed II in November!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_II

buried

The basic opening title for 'Good Time' that uses that glorious 'Oneohtrix Point Never' synth work is totally brilliant. This little snippet doesn't do it justice, better off watching the full opening as the synth sound has this huge brilliant build in the opening scenes that blasts into the titles here.