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I first came across this at CHUD. It is the opening credit sequence for "Enter The Void". I have no idea what the movie is about. I just know that it is the most visceral opening credit sequence I've seen. I wonder what seeing it on a big screen would be like?

Watch this in the biggest window you can, with the volume turned up:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxgi-PiNFE

*Edit (may induce seizures)
**(Edited title in light of Mister Pains comment)

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Watchmen.

I first saw the movie a few days after finishing the graphic novel. Seeing all these characters I came to know brought to life on the big screen, to a song so fitting by one of the greatest poets of the century, was seriously like a spiritual experience. It was mind-blowing and the single best credit sequence I have ever seen in a motion picture

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That wasn't all that intense, a little bit towards the end but that's about it. A great seizure, no doubt. When was this released btw?

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What about it?

This isn't a thread asking about what others favourite opening credit sequences are. I'm talking about this specific credit sequence. Watchmen isn't intense. This is.



As far as I know it hasn't been released yet.

Also, keep in mind you're watching it on your computer. I just think it would be like being assaulted if you were to watch it on a big screen with loud music.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I agree with WJK's analysis. The sequence was creative, but the entire point of a credit sequence is to let you know who worked on the movie and in what capacity. That's not an easy thing to do when the names are being rattled off in quick succession in variable neon fonts and colors, and it's outright impossible when watching the credits puts you at risk for a goddamn seizure.

As for the movie itself, here is a descriptive review of the movie. Apparently, it's a movie about a guy who gets killed in Tokyo and goes through the afterlife as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead or some shit like that. The movie seems to be in the class of "Antichrist" as a brilliantly made yet self-indulgent movie suitable for only the most hardcore movie nerds.

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@RealSlimCAvery

True, but that's not really the point. I'm not saying this is the best credit sequence ever, or even a good credit sequence. I'm just saying it's a very intense and visceral credit sequence. I think if you were to sit there in the theatre and have this come on it would freeze you in your seat. No whispering to your friend, no chewing your popcorn.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Just a bit of semantics for Monday morning...

A title sequence heads a movie, often only featuring the names of the film's principal actors and creative heads.

The credits roll at the end of a film, usually just a standard fly-shit roll.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Se7en has an intense and GREAT sequence.

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Mexicano Al Grito De Guerra

I like Se7en's opening titles but I wouldn't say they are particularly intense. They don't quite grab you by the balls like Fight Club for example.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Misplaced, your judgement is.



You make a decent argument, but I would have already started eating the popcorn ten minutes prior to the movie's opening, then complain about how I ran out of popcorn halfway into the movie. To see it on the big screen would indefinitely bring upon seizures, but perhaps it would be better in 3D...

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Is it? Music and bright flashing colors which one am I talking about?

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@RealSlimCAvery

Aye, similar in visuals but not effect.

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Off topic but while I love the smell of popcorn, I hate eating it. The kernels get stuck in my teeth. What I love about the smell is that I so strongly associate it with the movies. I smell popcorn and it immediately creates an image of going to the movies as a kid.



I'm sure there would have to be some kind of warning at the beginning.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Exactly, obvious in effect they'd be different, I was talking exclusivly about the visuals

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@RealSlimCAvery

Sorry, the thread title had a at the end so I assumed it was a personal opinion-based thread.

And Watchmen was indeed intense.

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One superhero blows up New York, another one kills women and children, and the last one just flashes everybody.
SUPERHEROES ARE ASSHOLES! ~ Chester A. Bum

My bad. I didn't really know what to title the thread and since I had just watched the video that was the first thing that came to mind.



How so? When I think of the word "intense" I think of something that is both gripping and kind of uncomfortable. I didn't get that from Watchmen. Mesmerizing? Possibly, but I wouldn't say it was intense.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Not even close to intense. It was a bunch of hooplah that had been already seen on public television for years. Riots, murder scenes, elections, bleh. I still don't think this credit sequence is intense either. It has cool music, though. The trailer is more intense, if anything. It's almost the same as the motion comic intro, hehe.

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I haven't read through the thread yet, I'll do that later, but I thought that the opening titles for Se7en and Fight Club were pretty great and could be considered fairly "intense".

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