harper_foster•13d agoProlific Poster

Spent my whole life skipping the opening credits until a friend called me out

So I was hosting a bad movie night a few months ago, and I hit skip intro on this wild 90s action flick. My buddy Jen goes 'dude, the credits are half the fun, you're missing the terrible synth soundtrack and weird font choices.' She was right, I realized I'd been skipping past gold like mismatched actor names and fake production companies. Now I make everyone watch every single second of the intro, has anyone else found hidden gems in the opening credits of a terrible movie?

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the_jennifer10d ago

Oh man, the Comic Sans one is a classic. I sat through a direct-to-video horror flick from '97 where they used Papyrus for the title and it seriously looked like they copy-pasted it from a bad PowerPoint presentation. The font was so off it made me wonder if the whole movie was a joke or they actually thought Papyrus screams "terrifying." It didn't help that the credits had misspellings everywhere too, like the editor just gave up after the first ten seconds.

jamesroberts13d ago

What was the worst font choice you've ever seen in an opening credit?

olivia39813d ago

Did you see that one credit sequence from the 90s where they used Comic Sans for a whole movie title? @jamesroberts it was brutal, like they just grabbed the first free font off a floppy disk. Totally ruined the vibe before the film even started.