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December 31, 2014 5:36 AM

The Art Of The Title's Top 10 Title Sequences of 2014
posted by fearfulsymmetry (13 comments total)

Those are all great--but their honorable mention for Don Herzfeldt's opener for the Simpsons this year blows my mind. Consume it consume it now rub it on your flippers
posted by Admiral Haddock at 5:46 AM on December 31, 2014 [5 favorites]

The Marco Polo title sequence is one of the most entrancing things I've seen this year.

Here's the brief making of video.
posted by sutt at 6:07 AM on December 31, 2014 [1 favorite]

...but their honorable mention for Don Herzfeldt's opener for the Simpsons this year blows my mind.

It's kind of head-scratchy why that Simpsons sequence merely made an honorable mention, but that Too Many Cooks thing was a finalist. I mean, at least the Simpsons was an actual title sequence, and not merely a satire. Which went on much, much, much too long for the health of the gag.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:10 AM on December 31, 2014 [1 favorite]

Those are all great--but their honorable mention for Don Herzfeldt's opener for the Simpsons this year blows my mind. Consume it consume it now rub it on your flippers

what was that
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 6:32 AM on December 31, 2014

The Simpsons opener previously.
posted by svenx at 6:44 AM on December 31, 2014

I'm not quite sure if the opening sequence of Under The Skin counts (I don't recall if it had text over it) but if so I would put it up there.
posted by Artw at 7:22 AM on December 31, 2014

Which went on much, much, much too long for the health of the gag.

You may have misunderstood the nature of the gag.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:25 AM on December 31, 2014 [9 favorites]

Thanks for the post-- I missed quite a few of these. The end credits for Captain America: The Winter Soldier were my favorite part of that movie. I gave up on The Simpsons a long time ago so I missed the Don Herzfeldt opener, but I would guess that that's as close as that show's come to genius since the monorail episode.
posted by matcha action at 7:47 AM on December 31, 2014

These are incredible. Is it too early to say we're in a new golden age of title design?
posted by gwint at 8:14 AM on December 31, 2014

It's kind of head-scratchy why that Simpsons sequence merely made an honorable mention, but that Too Many Cooks thing was a finalist.

I assume Smarf pulled some strings.
posted by Metroid Baby at 8:39 AM on December 31, 2014 [1 favorite]

I really need there to be a worldwide moratorium on anyone ever mentioning Too Many Cooks again. There is not one single thing more annoying to have stuck in your head.
posted by something something at 10:21 AM on December 31, 2014

Is it too early to say we're in a new golden age of title design?

It isn't, if they're running while people are zipping up their coats and trying to recall where they parked.

Title design in the Saul Bass era was about setting expectations and tone for a film, but these things that run at the end of movies are little more than easter eggs.
posted by dhartung at 12:01 AM on January 1, 2015

If only the actual show Halt And Catch Fire was even half as good as its title sequence (though my fave is True Detective - the song and visuals are amazing)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:43 AM on January 1, 2015 [2 favorites]