Me too. It was during this time that VHS was catching on, and Orion, through WB, was releasing many titles. I'll always associate the Orion logo with Caddyshack. I love how the theme song quietly begins with the reveal of the Orion logo...then fades into the golf course with the sprinklers keeping time with the music...all the while the music building...and the gopher emerges and begins to boogie...then ducks to avoid the titled-ball as Kenny Loggins' vocals enter one of my favorite theme songs on film. A classic opening to a film. The gopher steals the show in the very first scene!
Carolco = Cutthroat Island. Universal = Jurassic Park Regency = True Lies (although Fight Club has now superseded it) Imagine Entertainment = Ron Howard Castle Rock = Shawshank Redemption
For me, New Line reminds me of Austin Powers. Probably because when I first got into DVD's, New Line was really promoting their movies with 5 free discs with every DVD purchase. Since the logo animation is one of the first 5.1 things you see, that really stuck out in my mind from watching Austin Powers over and over again (because I only had about a dozen DVD's back then )
Oh, and whenver I see the HBO open (with the static), I am waiting for that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" music.
Haha. I get into that same groove with the HBO logo. If new episodes of Curb are airing, I'm used to that music following the logo. I've been rewatching The Sopranos lately so when Deadwood starts in June, it'll be weird to not hear 'Woke Up This Morning' after the HBO logo.
For some reason, I always associate the current New Line logo/music with Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. And I associate the old New Line opening with Nightmare 3, probably because I watched it so many times on VHS as a kid, it's just stuck in my head.
Sorry to you STAR WARS fans, but the CinemaScope/Fox fanfare always reminds me of THE FLY (1958), as that is where I heard it for the first time and heard it on television for years following. And what a film to use the process!
The Jimmy McHugh Universal fanfare from the '30s and 40s' will always remind me of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN.
The red WB logo from the '70s with the synth in the background always reminds me of the atmospheric use of it in the start of THE EXORCIST, which sadly has been replaced by the new logo.
I always think Ace Ventura when I hear/see the Morgan Creek theme/logo.
Warner Bros has three things for me. There's the silent 90's version which makes me think of a Joel Silver actionfest (the calm before the storm...). The briefly used 'breeze' theme is Lethal Weapon 4 and the piano theme reminds me of Something's Gotta Give for whatever reason.
The 90's Universal logo reminds me of comedies I viewed as a kid (Liar Liar and Nutty Professor are 2 examples). The new one reminds me of The Grinch and The Bourne Supremacy.
Columbia's current theme will be Last Action Hero. No question. I always think Stripes for the older silent version.
HBO makes me think Sex and the City. Your guess as to why is as good as mine.
Fox is similar to Warners. The older theme (that gets used with Star Wars to this day) I think Star Wars, Home Alone and Die Hard. The newer theme (with different beats at the start) reminds me of X-Men.
MGM and UA is obviously Bond.
And finally, the current New Line is LOTR and two Jim Carrey favourites Dumb and Dumber and The Mask.