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Please excuse the overdramatic title. This is basically just a video about opening title sequences - why they're great, what they can do, and why they should come back into style.

And for those of you who have Nebula, you can watch the extended cut there (where I rank my 10 favorite title sequences) 

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A Dying Cinematic Art (And Why It Needs To Come Back)

Sign up here for CuriosityStream and get a free subscription to Nebula so you can see the season finale https://curiositystream.com/patrickhwillems/index.html Opening title sequences have been going out of style for decades now, but the thing is, they rule and should come back. PATREON ► https://www.patreon.com/patrickhwillems MERCH ► https://bit.ly/2Q7cPdc REDDIT ► https://bit.ly/2Uj44j0 ______________________________________ CAST & CREW Editor - Ryan Alva Research - Raven Thigpen ______________________________________ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/patrickhwillems FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/patrickhwillems INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/patrickhwillems ______________________________________ Music by Epidemic Sound ______________________________________ SEND US SOME MAIL: Patrick Willems P.O. Box 380333 Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Karel P Kerezman

Thank you for calling out the "have their cake & eat it too" Marvel thing of putting the big fancy opening credits sequences at the ends of almost all of their movies (and D+ shows). And I feel like your "memorable theme song" theory has some validity there.

James Davis

Got my main computer connected to my 65" just in time.

Bethany Laurel

Hearing you say “Roll Creed-its” made me ridiculously happy.

James Couche

Thanks for calling out the weird plot obsession of online film discourse. It sometimes feels like people view films as "plot delivery devices" and things like aesthetic, tone, and theme are viewed as a distraction. Maybe that's why so many recent blockbusters have forgettable soundtracks and by-the-numbers cinematography; artistic vision gets in the way of the precious plot...

Anonymous

great video of a surprisingly topical subject :)