The best first scene/act of any film...

[P-Jay]

BliarOut said:

Did you see a sign outside saying "dead storage"?

Even with the odd way the story jumps around, isn't that around 2/3rds way through the film?

[BliarOut]

P-Jay said:

BliarOut said:

Did you see a sign outside saying "dead storage"?

Even with the odd way the story jumps around, isn't that around 2/3rds way through the film?

Well Marvin and Flock of Seagulls are obviously dead, but Vince and Jules are still in rude health

[Zaxxon]

The Matrix

[Big Worm 1]

Swordfish

[dirty boy]

Some good ones mentioned.

Not my usual type of film, but with a good sound set up, I remember loving this

Blade

[Defcon5]

APanda said:

Isn't the opening scene to Saving Private Ryan the guy walking with his family?

Yeah I think so

[Eighteeteewhy]

ajprice said:

Shoot 'Em Up - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ74pk6OAHs

Probably NSFW . Contains swearing, guns, blood, death, childbirth, breastfeeding and death by carrot.

Added to my LoveFilm list.

[onomatopoeia]

P-Jay said:

Anyway, my bid:

Good choice!

[JontyR]

What about all of the bond films? Pretty much on the edge of seat action for the first 5-10 minutes??

[Sprouts]

Peter Mullan at the begining of Tyrannosaur, not nice but very good.

[rufusruffcutt]

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Inglourious Basterds

Lord of War

Trainspotting

Once Upon a Time in the West

2001 A Space Odyssey

[OlberJ]

It's horrible. It's a horrible film.

But the intro to Irreversible is one that will live with me for a long time.

[vixen1700]

OlberJ said:

It's horrible. It's a horrible film.

But the intro to Irreversible is one that will live with me for a long time.

That's really a film I just couldn't watch again. Horrible.

[Big Fat Fatty]

vixen1700 said:

OlberJ said:

It's horrible. It's a horrible film.

But the intro to Irreversible is one that will live with me for a long time.

That's really a film I just couldn't watch again. Horrible.

Agreed, I still wonder how they made that head look so real though.

[vixen1700]

Big Fat Fatty said:

Agreed, I still wonder how they made that head look so real though.

Didn't think I could have got past that, I felt physically sick.

[LordGrover]

Not a film, but the opening credits to True Blood works for me: youtube.

[DrTre]

Jaws

[Gregorypeck]

Jaws. You just beat me to it. They're apparently re-releasing it this summer.

[DrTre]

Will def go watch that

[chrisobrien54]

The last shot of Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday. It's a good film, but an exceptional ending!!!

The slow pan to the corridor while Travis Bickle calls Betsy, or the lingering shot of the fizzing glass of water in the diner, in Taxi Driver.

Might be a bit obscure, but the last shot of the Samurai in Seven Samurai, while everyone is celebrating but them. Grim!

How's about another Kurosawa... The fight scene, where Toshiro Mifune takes apart a dozen villains using only his hands, in Redbeard?

Somewhat less pretentious, the slow reveal of the spaceship in Independance Day as it rolls out of the clouds? I was spellbound by that, back in the day.

Harry Dean Stanton's last moments in Alien...

Rosebuds last scene in Kane... Changes the entire film, and it's just a **** ; )

A couple of my favs!

Edited by chrisobrien54 on Friday 15th June 17:34