Coolest Opening Scene ever?

[TheGodSon]

Vanilla Sky - Empty Times Square

Quite possibly my favorite of all time.
Awesome radiohead song. Awesome Ferrari. Amazingly shot empty times square sequence = Awesome opening scene.

Your opinion?

[mr_gamecube]

Jeepers Creepers has the best opening of any movie!!!!

[therealjohng]

Originally posted by TheGodSon
Vanilla Sky - Empty Times Square

Quite possibly my favorite of all time.
Awesome radiohead song. Awesome Ferrari. Amazingly shot empty times square sequence = Awesome opening scene.

Your opinion?

Good choice....

[Addi88]

Jackass The Movie:D

[syxxpac]

Swordfish's opening is amazing.

[Squid Vicious]

The opening of Vanilla Sky is awesome.

I also like the aerial shot over the neighborhood at the beginning of American Beauty.

[rupert pupkin]

sunset boulevard

body laying face down in the swimming pool

not sure why, it is just beautifully filmed

[Dietrich]

Overall not such a good movie, but the opening of Strange Days is a killer.. :cool:

[Could Be Worse]

The once original opening to Scream is still good. I don't know what I would consider the best, though.

[VicVega]

Reservoir Dogs- We are introduced to all the film's main characters in the first scene and we learn a little about each one of them.

Goodfellas- Eventhough it's a scene that occurs later in the movie, it was placed perfectly in the first scene. Tommy, Henry, and Jimmy are driving when they hear Batts moving around in the trunk. They get out and...well you know the rest.

[Dumb-Fokker-**]

...The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The epic shots of the mountains, playing one of the best scenes from the first film again, the awesome fight on the way down, and one of my favorite shots in cinema - Gandalf and the Balrog, shown falling from afar. Also, the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring; excellent opening. The entire prolouge was awesome, from start to finish. And lets not forget Jaws - another excellent opening sequence.

[bondish]

The Ring: Not very original, but suspenseful.
Scary Movie: Hilarious opening.

[Lazy Boy]

Pulp Fiction: I loved the rapid, fast-paced delivery of the dialogue between Honey Bunney and Pumpkin, as well as the final coda:

Honey Bunny: I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin: I love you, Honey Bunny. (jumps up) Everybody stay cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny: Any of you fuckin' pricks MOVE, I'm gonna execute every motherfuckin' last one of ya!

Boom. Cue "Miserlou" and off we go...

I was so stunned upon seeing the film for the first time, all I could say was "Wow." It sets the style for the remainder of the film.

[ANavissi500]

In recent memory, The Rules of Attraction had the best opening. It was very disturbing and it set the pace for the film very nicely. I also like the creative cinematography.

[Hannibal21]

A Clockwork Orange, Citizen Kane, LOTR: FOTR, and Star Wars all has great opening scenes.

[Trinity]

THE HOURS - both the pre-title sequence of Virginia committing suicide with the farewell letter to her husband heard in voiceover, and after it the montage of the three main characters getting out of bed and preparing for their day. Great editing, wonderful music, so simple and yet so affecting.

[Mad Maggot]

Chicago - great opening!!

[Brock-Landers]

The Rules of Attraction <tie> Pulp Fiction.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

My two favourites are...

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

A great opening which shocks, has humour and cool as fuck action.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

The best Bond opening ever!

[Trinity]

Originally posted by Mad Maggot
Chicago - great opening!!
Agreed. You can't top "All That Jazz".

[Wrath]

House of 1000 Corpses.

[Antonio]

Among recent films, I'm going with the awesome carnage in GHOST SHIP!

[Kurtz' Killer]

The Godfather has a great opening.

So do the following:

Apocalypse Now- that whup whup whup of the helicopter blades, "THE END",-incredible- feels like 'Nam even if you weren't there...
Tombstone
JFK/NBK- two cannon shots from Stone
Midnight Express
True Romance- "I'd fuck Elvis"
The Rocky Horror Picture Show -THOSE LIPS!
and recently, City of God

[quoth_the_raven]

The World is Not enough...

that boat chase...




*droooooooooool*

[zeppelin]

Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia
Jaws
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange

All have great openings.

[Annie Hall]

Pulp Fiction definitely has one of the finest openings I've ever seen. It's both humorous and vaguely disturbing.

[blankpage]

- Ghost World
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs

All excellent opening scenes!

[therealjohng]

OK, my favorite is from Big Trouble in Little China. When Jack Burton is tallking to anybody on his CB about anything. The way that Russell delivers his lines are just hilarious.

"It's like I told my last wife, I says honey, I never drive faster than I can see and besides that, it's all in the reflexes."

Fucking brilliant!

[Mr. Pou Pon]

Originally posted by Annie Hall
Pulp Fiction definitely has one of the finest openings I've ever seen. It's both humorous and vaguely disturbing.

Pulp Fiction gets my vote.

[Jerk Shapiro]

The greatest opening scene, if not one of the greatest scenes in general, and I think Quent will agree with me here, Raging Bull.

[zeppelin]

The greatest opening scene, if not one of the greatest scenes in general, and I think Quent will agree with me here, Raging Bull.

I should smack myself for forgetting to mention that one...brilliant opening scene.

[Caranmetiel]

loved the beginning of "a few good men" with the rifle corps.. i know that wasn't technically the opening scene but speaking as a former colorguard member, that scene is awesome!

[ColinM]

NOBODY has said Saving Private Ryan??? The whole first 20 minutes are the best part of the movie!

Second would be The Godfather.

[Speermint]

I liked the character sequence from "Snatch". I thought it was well edited and clever.
it looked cool

[Trainspotter]

Easy. Has to be Saving Private Ryan.

Honourable mentions to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and yes- bloody Jeepers Creepers.

[TomBomb]

Memento

I loved the reversed shot of Leonard holding the polaroid photo, shaking it once in a while as the picture slowly goes back out of focus. Very cool.

[Pootie]

Citizen Kane, Resevoir Dogs, and the opening narroration set L.A. Confidential up really nicely. Put me into the time period.

[doggyboyuk]

Saving Private Ryan

[markuskorpela]

Saving Private Ryan (Awesome! Omaha Beach...)
Jason X (Camera moving inside Jason, nice!)
Day of the Dead (Zombie hands coming trough the wall and deserted city.)

[thirdeye]

Day of the Dead (Zombie hands coming trough the wall and deserted city.)



Fuck Yeah

Also :

Cube

[MickeyKnox]

Jaws
Pulp Fiction
Natural Born Killers
Reservoir Dogs
Raging Bull

[Sad man]

A recent one: X2: X-men united...WOW!

[Lazy Boy]

Another great opening shot I forgot to mention: Snake Eyes.

It's filmed entirely (I may be wrong) in one take, as far as I can tell, for nearly 15 minutes, as the camera swoops all throughout the arena while following Ricky Santoro (Nicolas Cage). It's an astonishing technical achievement for Brian De Palma, even though the film itself winds up being pretty mediocre.

[Strider]

Honestly, I was blown completely away by the opening scene of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". The way the film explains the legacy of "the one ring" and the narrative from Cate Blanchett is just pure brilliance.

Strider

[The Young Son]

Saving Private Ryan - Omaha Beach, fantastic!

Snatch - Introduction of characters.

LOTR:TTT - Great beginning with the falling of Gandalf.

Swordfish - KABOOM!! Enough said.

[freakandgeek]

ok, i LOVED the beginning of final destination 2. never been so far on the edge of my seat!

definately!

but the explosion in swordfish was also great.

ill probably add more later

[Darth Dzikowski]

Well, in a world of great opening scenes, there is no question that Private Ryan is the most intense, beautifully shot sequences in movie history.

However here are some of my personal favorites:

Steadicam shot that opens Halloween, set the modern day precedent of overdone steadicam shots.

The opening ten minutes of both LOTR: FOTR & TTT

The sheer joy & awe inspiring-ness of the opening of the Star Wars Universe, Opening credits to the launch of the escape pod

The beginning of Raiders, that whole golden monkey head scene with Alfred Molina dicking over Mr. Jones only to get squashed by the booby traps. Who can forget that big Rolling Stone?

The backstory of the Tenenbaum clan that opens The Royal Tenenbaums to the strings of Hey Jude -- classic!

Same can be said about a one Max Fischwer and his extra caricular activity montage in Rushmore.

Moulin Rouge first fifteen minutes kind of Rocks.

And like previous posts indicated: Rules of Attraction, Ghost World opening credits with Thora Birch groovin, Snatch character intro all get good grades as well

[oodles]

Has to be Lord of the Rings, that battle scene was awesome.
Now thats what I call a battle. How they made the time to dress those 3,678,001 extras all up as orcs I'll never know

:eek:

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by oodles
How they made the time to dress those 3,678,001 extras all up as orcs I'll never know





ahh good old CGI....it never fails :Dwell, maybe some of the time anyway ;)

[Tagia_Romero]

John Carpenter's Vampires
Swordfish
Blade
Sunset Boulevard
Reseviour Dogs
Mad Max
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Cube
X-Men
X2
Donnie Darko
Jaws

[TheGodSon]

Originally posted by Lazy Boy
Another great opening shot I forgot to mention: Snake Eyes.

It's filmed entirely (I may be wrong) in one take, as far as I can tell, for nearly 15 minutes, as the camera swoops all throughout the arena while following Ricky Santoro (Nicolas Cage). It's an astonishing technical achievement for Brian De Palma, even though the film itself winds up being pretty mediocre.

Yep, I remember that one. I was in awe the whole time.