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 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.
Hans Zimmer too. Not quite the same legendary status as our John, but still quite the impressive record.
Plup fiction’s intro was captivating.
And the beginning being the ending…chef’s kiss.
Drive
Song is Kavinsky - Nightcall
I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel.
Terminator 2: Judgment day
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To this day, whenever I’m alone in an elevator I drum out the percussion part of the theme: dun-dun dun dun-dun…
I just saw Deadpool Wolverine last week, and must say Bye Bye Bye aged pretty well 😎
Perhaps a bit on the campy side, the opening theme song of the original Highlander was always one of my favorites:
Princes of the Universe by Queen.My all time favourite is Lord of war. Perfect song, nice way to show the bullet production and then in the end when it hits its target… Could not imagine a better opening to this movie. Especially once you get to know that it is based on some real russian arms dealer.
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Thanks but i prefer it my way
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Hunt for the Red October
- The Italian Job (1969)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Ennio Morricone’s music for the Man With No Name series
Star Wars episode 4 - A New Hope
Not a movie but the Raised By Wolves opening theme song is pretty epic.
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
All of these are good answers, but the movie with the best opening theme is obviously Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa.
There’s no fog!
