Mission Impossible, and like 90% of the James Bond films. What can I say? I have a type.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

One of the best movies intros I’ve ever seen. Too bad the rest of the movie sucked.

Terminator 2: Judgment day

Plup fiction’s intro was captivating.

My pick is Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss will forever be one of cinema’s greatest opening themes. And combined with the opening credits of the movie with the sun rising slowly over the Earth was absolutely groundbreaking and legendary. It is truly one of the greatest opening credits sequences of all time.

I just saw Deadpool Wolverine last week, and must say Bye Bye Bye aged pretty well 😎

The overture for Star Trek the motion picture. That’s right. It had an overture.

• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• Ennio Morricone’s music for the Man With No Name series

Armageddon

Star Wars episode 4 - A New Hope

John Powell’s opening for How to Train your Dragon deserves a shoutout for including every major Leitmotiv of the movie.

I’ll let someone smarter go into 18 minutes of more detail here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUJQH7GLms

Stargate

I could list a bunch of movies but it’s easier to say anything scored by John Williams. Superman, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws. I never caught Close Encounters of the Third Kind but I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s good just on faith.

He scored some other things, but that’s what I remember off the top of my head.

One I didn’t see mentioned yet: reservoir dogs.

robin hood prince of thieves

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