Movies With The Best Opening Scenes

[teewee1432]

What are some of the best opening scenes in movies you have seen. Those scenes that you can watch over and over again before you even really get into the movie. Some of mines are Doc Hollywood and the opening of scream. What are yours? Discuss

 

[Pink Ranger]

The opening of Manhunter is still one of my favorites.

 

[axelbratoski]

I really like Reservoir Dog's opening scene...

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Ghost Busters

Stark Trek(2009)

Zombieland

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

 

[Ajendo]

Goldfinger
Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Last Crucade

 

[The Morningstar]

The Two Towers
Sherlock Holmes
Children of Men
Blade Runner

 

[The Morningstar]

Apocalypse Now
Drive
The Dark Knight
Batman 89

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

X2. That opening scene with Nightcrawler in the White House is amazing.

 

[chamber-music]

The first Blade movie had a awesome opening

 

[jmc]

Lion King - not a word is said but the visuals and music alone tell an epic story.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Besides these-
Every Sergio Leone film.
Every Coen Brothers film.
The Searchers.
The Rescuers Down Under.
Amadeus.
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

 

[RichardMoore]

The Dark Knight Rises.

 

[Zant]

X men 2

 

[Nirvana]

New classic.

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[Fenrir]

15 posts in and yet no one has mentioned Saving Private Ryan...

 

[The Morningstar]

Fincher is kinda an expert at opening titles.

 

[Blue Sugar]

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The dreamy yet crisp cinematography, that perfect hazy slow tempo, without feeling like generic slow-motion, the detailing of the scene, the beautifully eerie score from Julyan and the incredibly intriguing way of composing and unraveling the scene by reversing it.

 

[DACrowe]

Manhattan



Pure blissful marriage of image and sound.

Jaws



Star Wars



Breakfast at Tiffany's



Sunset Boulevard



The Godfather



The Social Network

Not on Youtube.

There are so many more, but I'm stopping here.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

X2
T2
Blade
The Matrix
Casino Royale
Star Wars A New Hope

and best of all:

Raider of the Lost Ark

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Too many to name. Seriously.

 

[jacobed]

Saving Private Ryan
X2
The Dark Knight
Star Wars: Episode 3

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I forgot Drive.

Classic.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Raiders of The Lost Ark
Last Crucade

I think the opening of Temple of Doom is way better than Last Crusade's opening, and is at least as good as the one in Raiders.

edit: and what the hell happens in the opening scene to 'Doc Hollywood', that made the threadstarter choose that one over so many well known classics? haha

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

How could you put great opening credit sequences without a few Bond movies? Here are my favorite 3 Bond precredit sequences:

The Spy Who Loved Me

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Goldeneye

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Casino Royale

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