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Crossflow Kid
4,631 posts
60 months
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Battle of Britain......
"Get that bowser out of here! We'll go with what we've got!"
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Nyphur
2,910 posts
57 months
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Ozmira
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58 months
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Don Veloci
1,130 posts
150 months
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Celestion84 said: Full Metal Jacket.
Best first 20 mins of any movie, ever. FACT R Lee Ermey
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odyssey2200
17,500 posts
78 months
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IIRC the opening scene from Alien 3 is one that will really test your sound system to distruction.
It's just the spacecraft (Nostromo?) gliding through space with HUGE sound effects before it all kicks off and the escape pod is ejected.
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130R
4,387 posts
75 months
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The Dark Knight first scene is pretty good (the bank robbery)
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Tiggsy
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121 months
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Big Raff
392 posts
40 months
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All the good ones have been mentioned, though for impact on a wee lad can i cast a vote for Transformers The Movie (the cartoon)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lo7JPLJUUUWhen you watch it, you never think there are 'others' on different planets...and to see them destructed so effectively is pretty powerful. It is still better than the latest 3 we have had on the big screen which is an added bonus!
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Nom de ploom
2,397 posts
43 months
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A few greats on here some also-rans....
O/T I find kubrick hard to watch, any of his films tbh and I personally think the FMJ whilst it gets the message across is over-rated and its' perceived quality is based on the performance of one character and a few choice lines.
no other characters are really explored and the difference between the two halves is so disparate that as much as i want to I can't rate the film as highly as most do...
anyways openings....
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - you know something is going on, you don't know what, but you know its big. perfectly pitched and hooks you in from moment 1.
Jaws does the same.
Star Wars
Terminator
Raiders of The lost Ark...
all classics
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Cotty
24,931 posts
153 months
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SammyW said: Inglourious Basterds opening is superb! I must admit i've always liked the opening of Goldeneye as well. Most James Bond films have great opening sequences, who can forget the shootout on skis and the union flag parachute jump.
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realjv
331 posts
35 months
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After detailed analysis of my admittedly not very extensive DVD collection I've decided its either Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Life of Brian.
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benzito
1,056 posts
28 months
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has to be terminator and terminator 2!
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D1ngd0ng
931 posts
34 months
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There will be blood is another. Just say something goddamit!
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VinceFox
14,284 posts
41 months
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Mad max. Not technically brilliant but the whole first chasedown is still a big favourite of mine.
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Pesty
25,891 posts
125 months
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All good shouts. Some great opening scenes but you are all wrong. you brought one horse too many. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQX_hIBPZU&fea...from 2:49 on-wards where they are just waiting around is magic Can't believe its not been mentioned yet.
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98elise
3,180 posts
30 months
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VinceFox said: Mad max. Not technically brilliant but the whole first chasedown is still a big favourite of mine. I was just about to say that, as a teenager that was a stunning opening to a film. Car mayhem for 15 minutes....whats not to like! Great for a low budget movie. Leon is my favourite for a Hollywood movie.
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stumpage
987 posts
95 months
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Alex
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153 months
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LordGrover
18,654 posts
81 months
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Alex said: So a bit like pesty a couple of posts up then?
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Alex
6,251 posts
153 months
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LordGrover said: So a bit like pesty a couple of posts up then? I can't watch YouTube at work, so I didn't know what Pesty posted a few posts up. But, yes!
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