Your best opening in a film?

[Negative Creep]

james_gt3rs said:

Antony Moxey said:

James Bond usually has some great opening scenes, most notably diving off the dam in Goldeneye and skiing off the cliff and a union jack parachute opening in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Goldeneye is great.

That was the first Bond film I ever saw at the cinema. I remember the excitement and being safe in the knowledge he was back, and back in style. Incidentally the N64 version was set there and is one of the best first levels of any game.

[boxst]

This just made me watch Cannonball Run again, something I haven't done for years.

What a great film.

[gpo746]

Negative Creep said:

james_gt3rs said:

Antony Moxey said:

James Bond usually has some great opening scenes, most notably diving off the dam in Goldeneye and skiing off the cliff and a union jack parachute opening in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Goldeneye is great.

That was the first Bond film I ever saw at the cinema. I remember the excitement and being safe in the knowledge he was back, and back in style. Incidentally the N64 version was set there and is one of the best first levels of any game.

I remember the live press conference on Sky News it had been a really long time hadn't it.

[The Don of Croy]

Halmyre said:

Johnnytheboy said:

People keep saying "Saving Private Ryan".

My memory of the opening is an old bloke and his family wandering round a cemetery.

I hate that bit, and the accompanying closing sequence, with the old duffer tearfully asking "have I been a good man?" I also hate the dying Miller (Hanks) telling Ryan "earn this".

...and if you visit that cemetary you'll know you don't walk along the beach-top path to get in, you arrive by the serried ranks of prisitine gravestones first and have to go past them to get near the landing beach...

[Morry10]

Blade intro sequence - pretty much one of the best ways to introduce the titular character ever made imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5_m0AwqPA

Cheers

[blindswelledrat]

North West Tom said:

Asterix said:

Hmmmmm - verbose as all QT films are but there's denying it is beautifully shot.

Agreed, but I mentioned it more because of Christoph Waltz's performance rather than QT.

I came on to mention Inglorious Basterds. Not the best film ever but that particular scene is one of my favourite scenes in any film.
The tension, atmosphere, dialogue and acting are absolutely sublime

[Chebble]

blindswelledrat said:

North West Tom said:

Asterix said:

Hmmmmm - verbose as all QT films are but there's denying it is beautifully shot.

Agreed, but I mentioned it more because of Christoph Waltz's performance rather than QT.

I came on to mention Inglorious Basterds. Not the best film ever but that particular scene is one of my favourite scenes in any film.
The tension, atmosphere, dialogue and acting are absolutely sublime

I'd agree. Heart in the mouth stuff, and Waltz delivers perfectly. Same again in Django Unchained. He's very good.

I'd also agree with the Bond film openings. Most of them are very memorable.

[ItsaTVR]

honest_delboy said:

good shout for Spy Who Loved me, I wouldn't be upset if DC did some sort of homage in the new bond flicks.

They did already , but it was in the Olympics opening show...

Really though, it is Star Wars for me. My first introduction to surround-sound, we're all looking over our shoulders... then when I looked back to the screen... Whoah!!!

Also the original Italian Job. I cried for hours for that Muira(not really, just alittle).

And even older than those, still newer than 3rd Man tho', 2001 A Space Odyssey. The music. All those apes going, well, ape. The bone going up...the 21st Century coming down.
Yeah that's more than the opening

[mp3manager]

strummerville said:

Mad Max 2 opening sequence: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=REAni_fAA-c

Except that isn't the 'opening sequence'.

There's lots of fail in this thread with far too many people not knowing what the 'opening' of a film is.

Anyway, the correct answer is....Rocky III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldDvunHQd0

[Digga]

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door.

Sideways round Trafalgar Square in a knackered, rusty Bedford Rascal van, with a groovy Tom Jones soundtrack. What's not to like?

[type-r]

Halloween (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF1DCf1ChA

[daddy cool]

There was a pretty good opening in Basic Instinct. About halfway through the film.

[Black can man]

Surely apocalypse now has got to be the best ever.

I haven't read the whole thread so i'm sure it must have been mentioned,

[Hugo a Gogo]

Is Enemy at the Gates opening scene the 'crossing the Volga and straight into battle' scene?

[vescaegg]

The opening Cafe scene in Pulp Fiction is amazing.

"Any of you fkin' pricks move and I'll execute every motherfking last one of you!"

Awesome.

[FourWheelDrift]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Is Enemy at the Gates opening scene the 'crossing the Volga and straight into battle' scene?

No the opening scene is Vassili as a small boy trying to shoot the deer or wolf with his grandfather giving him words of advice.

[Civpilot]

NewNameNeeded said:

I thought the opening sequences for the Star Trek reboot were pretty awesome. James Kirk's birth amidst a massive battle and his father's suicide to an instrumental score was pretty amazing.

This.

The music is stunning as is the sound use by reducing most of the othr effect sounds so your watching carnage set to such a gentle classical score.... right until your jolted back to reality when your with the Father as he hears his baby cry for the first time

The following conversation between George Kirk and his wife is so utterly heart wrenching and seems so real and honest. Very well acted between the two of them .

From the opening sequence of the U.S.S.Kelvin flying past the camera to the main Star Trek logo appearing on screen.... just the perfect way to start a movie.


ps. I'm sure people know this already.... but George Kirk.... that's Thor that is!!

[FourWheelDrift]

Civpilot said:

... but George Kirk.... that's Thor that is!!

James Hunt.

James junior's mother was clearly just one of the many juniors onboard the USS Kelvin that James senior shagged on a regular basis.

[vescaegg]

Civpilot said:

ps. I'm sure people know this already.... but George Kirk.... that's Thor that is!!

Seen that film so many times and never noticed!

[Nom de ploom]

some good shouts on here.

I thought the opening to The Two Towers was epic.

Bladerunner - the first shot of the city mixing the futuristic cityscapes with the elemental fire all set to Vangelis...awesome stuff.

Personally I love the opening to SPR too, "I'll see you on the beach" and then all hell is let loose and you're drawn into a visceral attack on the senses from every direction - yes it is a bit "over spielberged" at times but its still superb cinema