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.
- Cephalotrocity ( @Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win ) English13•27 days ago
Mission Impossible, and like 90% of the James Bond films. What can I say? I have a type.
- JimmyBigSausage ( @JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ) 4•27 days ago
Goldfinger
- BennyInc ( @BennyInc@feddit.org ) 10•27 days ago
I just saw Deadpool Wolverine last week, and must say Bye Bye Bye aged pretty well 😎
- Geometrinen_Gepardi ( @Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ) 9•27 days ago
Drive
Song is Kavinsky - Nightcall
- MagicShel ( @MagicShel@programming.dev ) 9•27 days ago
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.
- cmgvd3lw ( @cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•27 days ago
Plup fiction’s intro was captivating.
- Mountain_Mike_420 ( @Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml ) 2•27 days ago
And the beginning being the ending…chef’s kiss.
- ѕρα¢єgнσѕт ( @spaceghost__@lemm.ee ) 7•27 days ago
Terminator 2: Judgment day
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English1•24 days ago
To this day, whenever I’m alone in an elevator I drum out the percussion part of the theme: dun-dun dun dun-dun…
- finley ( @finley@lemm.ee ) English7•26 days ago
The overture for Star Trek the motion picture. That’s right. It had an overture.
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 5•27 days ago
Hunt for the Red October
- bob_lemon ( @bob_lemon@feddit.org ) 4•27 days ago
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
- DirigibleProtein ( @DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ) 4•27 days ago
- The Italian Job (1969)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Ennio Morricone’s music for the Man With No Name series
- boatswain ( @boatswain@infosec.pub ) 3•25 days ago
There can be only one: Highlander
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 2•25 days ago
One I didn’t see mentioned yet: reservoir dogs.
- Bo7a ( @Bo7a@lemmy.ca ) 2•26 days ago
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@thelemmy.club ) English2•27 days ago
All of these are good answers, but the movie with the best opening theme is obviously Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 2•27 days ago
There’s no fog!