Comments | evilegg: HBO love

evilegg

HBO love

Jul 16, 2010 11:04

I just started getting caught up on Big Love and I am delighted with the new opening credits. Fucking GORGEOUS.

I loved the old opening credits and part of the DVD was a behind the scenes look at the filming and it was just so cool that they put so much thought into it. It has to be the same guy who did Six Feet Under's opening credits- which I ( Read more... )

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quick_chick July 16 2010, 16:56:57 UTC

True Blood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dodm6-v8JcM&feature=related

Treme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1Iagf3GSs

evilegg July 16 2010, 17:19:55 UTC

Oo- the True Blood credits are good! I haven't watched that yet. GOD HATES FANGS. LOL

Treme.... I liked the mold shots, and I like the flooding shots and the post Katrina shots, but the historical ones felt out of place. i think they should have just played a REALLY FUCKING HAPPY MARDI GRAS MARCH but shown really disturbing current images.

quick_chick July 16 2010, 17:26:23 UTC

Have you seen Dexter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8-Rqo-VT4

evilegg July 16 2010, 17:59:53 UTC

Yeah- that doesn't do it for me. There were only a coulple of shots that stood out - I really liked the t-shirt over the face.

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stellamaris July 16 2010, 18:45:12 UTC

Oh and I just tried watching that Oz clip but lasted exactly 12 seconds, lol.

evilegg July 16 2010, 19:36:48 UTC

Dude-- That show was intense!!!!
It was plot heavy as hell, too.
But yeah- on a scale of one to fucked up, it rates fucked up.

cappy July 17 2010, 03:52:22 UTC

I loved it though. I'd have to turn the sound down & I had my hands over my ears a lot, had to turn away a LOT, but god that was a great series.

fotojournalist July 17 2010, 13:14:41 UTC

yeah, i made it 9 secs into oz clip. i just don't have the stomach anymore for stuff like that. peter goes on and on about how great Oz was, but I have never seen it.

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ersigh July 17 2010, 01:43:16 UTC

You like the Big Love credits? I was tolerant of the first season but the second season credits bug the hell out of me.

My favorite opening credits are the ones that last less than 15 seconds.

ersigh July 17 2010, 01:44:14 UTC

Oh and I loved Six Feet Under. One of the best shows ever...

ersigh July 17 2010, 01:47:30 UTC

Actually, I like the credits for United States of Tara

evilegg July 17 2010, 02:05:45 UTC

As sson as I finish Big Love I am knocking out season 2 of Tara.

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portia July 17 2010, 02:05:46 UTC

HBO show openings are the best! That's because no one can compete with the quality of their shows. Big Love rocks but I don't love the new opening as much as you do, although it's growing on me.

I <3 Deadwood and miss it terribly. Had to go look at the opening - forgot what it was like. Made me sad that David Milch stopped making it to produce that piece of shit "John from Cincinnati". (HBO's only mistake.)

I love this fabulous and creepy opening:

I also love the song that plays in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer opening. The highlights changed every season but my favorites featured Spike. Yum. That continues to be one of my favorite shows of all times.

Also dig the catchy Entourage opening.

evilegg July 17 2010, 02:14:44 UTC

John from Cincinnati was the one with The Clash opening. That show felt like they had six writers who each got to write a scene as they passed the script around with NO DISCUSSION of where they were going. And that little surfer kid needs to stick with surfing instead of acting.
Carnivale's opening worked because it was as fucked up and mysterious as the show.

Deadwood... oh how I love it. Did you ever watch all the director's notes and behind the scenes footage? That's why I refuse to download it- holding off to own all that extra stuff. When I originally watched it someone loaned me all three seasons at once and it was BLISS.

portia July 17 2010, 02:32:47 UTC

Ugh. That snot-nosed surfer punk. God that show sucked. It was sad to see all of the ex-Deadwood actors reduced to working in that steaming pile of poo.

I saw some behind the scenes stuff on HBO on demand. I also have season two on DVD but never watched it. (My parents bought me season two for my birthday a few years ago... I never understood why they bought me season two and not season one since I asked for all three seasons on my Amazon wish list... but whatever. Someday I will buy season one myself and watch everything in order and also the extra stuff.)

evilegg July 17 2010, 02:15:25 UTC

Did you ever watch OZ?

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fotojournalist July 17 2010, 13:00:10 UTC

we don't have hbo so i don't know what big love is, but my fav opening credits of all time:
1. True Blood (and this one blows most movies out of the water for me)
2. Dead Wood
3. Carnivale
4. Six Feet Under
5. Buffy

fotojournalist July 17 2010, 13:01:46 UTC

so i just went back and read your replies, looks like portia and I have much in common :D

evilegg July 17 2010, 15:06:06 UTC

Oooo! Friend her! She doesn't write as much as she used to but it's always good content and usually either personal or when she is super pissed. She is one of my oldest internet buddies.

evilegg July 17 2010, 15:10:19 UTC

Big Love is set in Utah around a polygamist family who has left the main compound but still has many family ties to it- which causes them all sorts or trouble. It's a cool show. I'd say major themes are family loyalty, betrayal, hurting the ones we love, discrimination and personal growth. Or the kinda drama only a man who is the grandson of the former prophet with 3 wives and 9 children and who owns a big box store and must live undercover or risk being exposed and losing everything... It's awesome.