Your best opening in a film?

[Pesty]

Chainguy said:

Cheers Pesty, I was going to put some further comments on it in my original post, but got a snotty mail from a mod once for putting some technical content in on a Glock thread; Pistonheads didn't need input like that apparently or some such rebuke, can't remember

You're right though, and a few weeks at Gunsite ranch wouldn't hurt the production values of a few films I can think of.

I bet you get annoyed by glocks with clicking safetys and constantly racking slides too

[Melman Giraffe]

Pulp fiction

[Nom de ploom]

forgot to mention Jaws.

superb.

Also one of my all time favourates that pulls you in is Master and Commander...

[Beati Dogu]

Pesty said:

I bet you get annoyed by glocks with clicking safetys and constantly racking slides too

Don't be silly. Glocks don't have safeties.


Great film

Edited by Beati Dogu on Monday 14th April 20:48

[Beati Dogu]

GetCarter said:

There will be blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qajb3Y4tjuA

[gruntmonster]

A clockwork orange

Alien

Independance day

[Joshsl]

the dark knight rises is a good opening

and another vote here for the cannonball run

[Ryanodine]

Snake Eyes by Brian De Palma.

I wonder how many takes for that opening?

[Swordman]

Blade 2

[Pesty]

Ryanodine said:

Snake Eyes by Brian De Palma.

I wonder how many takes for that opening?

Yes. Top film and opening. Lots of one shot scenes if I recall.

[FourWheelDrift]

Barbarella.

[poing]

Civpilot said:

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.

Couldn't have put it better myself. It's my number 1 opening to any film, even better than Top Gun but only just.

[Pesty]

Agreed.

So many very good sequences in that film.

[Turbodiesel1976]

For me, number 1 is the brilliant classical music overlaid opening to 'Casino' - superb opening for a superb film. Scorsese at his best. Agree with many of the films already mentioned in the thread i.e. Inglorious Basterds & Saving Private Ryan (the beach landing). I've also always liked the opening to 'Point Break' - the surfing interspersed with Keanu letting rip with about 5 million rounds of ammo on the range

[graham22]

Convoy - shifting sand & shifting gears, jake brake and an XKE with no panties.

[rupert the dog]

Haven't read the whole thread so apologies if I'm duplicating, but, Catch-22. Brilliant both visually and audio, er, ly?

[Asterix]

Turbodiesel1976 said:

For me, number 1 is the brilliant classical music overlaid opening to 'Casino' - superb opening for a superb film. Scorsese at his best. Agree with many of the films already mentioned in the thread i.e. Inglorious Basterds & Saving Private Ryan (the beach landing). I've also always liked the opening to 'Point Break' - the surfing interspersed with Keanu letting rip with about 5 million rounds of ammo on the range

I must watch PB again - brilliant film.

[bestinshow]

Not sure if been posted already, but the opening scene of Casino royale, mostly deleted from the release, I think is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNvzNWuzI9Y

[toon10]

FourWheelDrift said:

Barbarella.

Yup. The film both my father and I sat in uncomfortable silence when I was a young fella and just knew the pretence to my mother that we were watcing it because we both like sci-fi was stretching things a little.

[Quickmoose]

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I'd love to see this film at the cinema again...gets my vote