As always, watch for the dent in the B at ~~1:07~~ :50 (per u/SweetNeo85’s callout), bottom of screen. This is all physical/practical stuff, layered up.
This is such a nostalgia kick for me. This intro is so much better than the current, bland one.
When I finally get my home theater setup, I’m ripping this and playing it before every movie. So naturally the first movie I’ll watch after this intro is Flash Gordon.
This was the alert to get to the basement it was starting. Before the movie could be paused and wait for you. So many Doritos were lost in the rush to the tv that day.
My grandpa used to record movies for me off of HBO when I was a kid. God do I miss him. A lot of our movie collection had a worn-down version of this intro on it.
When I was a kid, I was terrified of this intro for some time. It’s more because of the music really. I saw a movie called Dreamscape, and being pretty young it scared the hell out of me. In my mind when I head the music, that meant the movie was about to start playing, and I got scared. This went on for awhile until I started watching Fraggle Rock.
Now I want to see Dreamscape and see if I had any reason to be scared of anything.
My brother and I used to watch Fraggle Rock every Sunday night when we were little. This was the unofficial start of the show and we both knew to get our asses to the family room.
You were living the high life if you had HBO in 1983. You had to live in an urban area to even have access to cable. We lived out in the sticks and did the rabbit ear dance depending on which of the four networks we could watch.
I remember waking up at 5 am on a school day to watch Star Wars and getting so excited when this opening started. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
I am grateful to my father; he absolutely adored television programming, and we always had HBO when I was growing up.
I was exposed to so many interesting and fun films from the ’80s and ’90s that I otherwise would’ve never seen until later in life, when they probably would have been less impactful. Lots of smaller films that never got aired on broadcast and basic cable channels.
Along similar lines, I was the only kid I was aware of in elementary school that was allowed to watch the Fox network, beginning ~1990… my father [and mom] felt that, some objectionable content could be overlooked if the writing was genuinely smart and funny. I watched In Living Color and The Simpsons pretty much from their inception.
This has been my ring tone for the last 6 years (from where HBO appears in the sky ~0:32s)! People who recognize it love it but they can’t immediately place where it’s from, most think it’s an old school football intro.
If you had a friend who had HBO and a VCR, you got some nice commercial-free movies on tape. I used to go to a friend’s house and he had a drawer of taped movies. It was awesome.
I was a baby when this intro would come on. Dad told me that I would come rushing into the living room in my walker, park in front of the TV, be mesmerized by the intro, then leave as soon as it was over.
This was always my fav HBO intro. I’m old so I was young teen when this came out. The actual one I remember was a bit longer and actaully showed a family in one of those buildings, getting popcorn and sitting down on the couch. Then camera pans out the window and starts down the street, where this intro starts.
Friday night, watching an HBO premier, and this coming on at the beginning. Soooo many good memories around this intro!
If you saw this back in the day, you knew a good movie was coming on
There’s an interesting making of clip on YouTube on how they made this intro. They put a lot of effort into this back then.
Ayup.
As always, watch for the dent in the B at ~~1:07~~ :50 (per u/SweetNeo85’s callout), bottom of screen. This is all physical/practical stuff, layered up.
“Making of” video here: https://youtu.be/agS6ZXBrcng
This is such a nostalgia kick for me. This intro is so much better than the current, bland one.
When I finally get my home theater setup, I’m ripping this and playing it before every movie. So naturally the first movie I’ll watch after this intro is Flash Gordon.
I can hear this thumbnail.
This was the alert to get to the basement it was starting. Before the movie could be paused and wait for you. So many Doritos were lost in the rush to the tv that day.
Back when a movie was an event
Dude this is so nostalgic. That sound lets you know you’re about to watch something good. Such a classic 80s sound too
r/VaporwaveAesthetics
This brings back memories…
A homage to it was put in Justice’s amazing [“DVNO” music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDsLRQg_g4) at the 0:41 mark.
Man this is major nostalgia vibes
My grandpa used to record movies for me off of HBO when I was a kid. God do I miss him. A lot of our movie collection had a worn-down version of this intro on it.
When I was a kid, I was terrified of this intro for some time. It’s more because of the music really. I saw a movie called Dreamscape, and being pretty young it scared the hell out of me. In my mind when I head the music, that meant the movie was about to start playing, and I got scared. This went on for awhile until I started watching Fraggle Rock.
Now I want to see Dreamscape and see if I had any reason to be scared of anything.
I still think that model city is really cool!
My brother and I used to watch Fraggle Rock every Sunday night when we were little. This was the unofficial start of the show and we both knew to get our asses to the family room.
Holy crap, that brought back so many memories!!
Damn, that brings back memories.
Man I remember this! This was a big clue to young me that something special was about to come on.
They should remake this for HBO’s 50th Anniversary this year in November.
You were living the high life if you had HBO in 1983. You had to live in an urban area to even have access to cable. We lived out in the sticks and did the rabbit ear dance depending on which of the four networks we could watch.
My mom told me that as a baby I would stop whatever I was doing and crawl to the TV whenever I heard this.
I remember waking up at 5 am on a school day to watch Star Wars and getting so excited when this opening started. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
I am grateful to my father; he absolutely adored television programming, and we always had HBO when I was growing up.
I was exposed to so many interesting and fun films from the ’80s and ’90s that I otherwise would’ve never seen until later in life, when they probably would have been less impactful. Lots of smaller films that never got aired on broadcast and basic cable channels.
Along similar lines, I was the only kid I was aware of in elementary school that was allowed to watch the Fox network, beginning ~1990… my father [and mom] felt that, some objectionable content could be overlooked if the writing was genuinely smart and funny. I watched In Living Color and The Simpsons pretty much from their inception.
This has been my ring tone for the last 6 years (from where HBO appears in the sky ~0:32s)! People who recognize it love it but they can’t immediately place where it’s from, most think it’s an old school football intro.
That trumpet player is going the fuck off.
All before CGI.
I love this intro. Dan Soder had them use it for his HBO special in 2019.
While I do enjoy the HBO intro, I’m more partial to the [ABC movie intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-gZ1Il-hbc).
Esp with [Ernie Anderson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0gGWRHIqQ) (Paul Thomas Anderson’s dad) narrating.
This intro used to give me such joy. Sometimes the music still pops into my head at random times too.
If you had a friend who had HBO and a VCR, you got some nice commercial-free movies on tape. I used to go to a friend’s house and he had a drawer of taped movies. It was awesome.
Twenty Thousand Hertz made a great episode about the music in this https://www.20k.org/episodes/itsnottvitshbo
HBO – Hey, Beastmaster’s On!
‘Winning Time’ should have started each episode with this.
Used to get so excited. Now it’s like, what garbage are they streaming now?
I was a baby when this intro would come on. Dad told me that I would come rushing into the living room in my walker, park in front of the TV, be mesmerized by the intro, then leave as soon as it was over.
This was always my fav HBO intro. I’m old so I was young teen when this came out. The actual one I remember was a bit longer and actaully showed a family in one of those buildings, getting popcorn and sitting down on the couch. Then camera pans out the window and starts down the street, where this intro starts.
Friday night, watching an HBO premier, and this coming on at the beginning. Soooo many good memories around this intro!
The Avengers theme absolutely rips this sound off lmao
Much nicer and easier to see remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7bqL0R3kGE
Is it weird that this gave me goose bumps?
HBO has always had iconic intros, this one and the static noise one, although I grew up watching the latter.