Best opening scene in movie history

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The first 3 minutes of Flight, just to see:



I think it's about an airplane, or something?
 

UKserialkiller

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Saving Ryan's Private is the obvious of course.

But I also like the black white opening to the human centipede that was never aired.

 

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Matrix had a good action scene that set up the movie and a wtf if your didn't know what it was about.


Lord of War - life of a bullet a from munition factory till the end, along with a great soundtrack


Watchmen opening credits
 
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UKwizard

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The opening scene in Saving Private Ryan is not the storming of Omaha beach you fools.

My favorite scenes that are actually the first of the movie are

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
The Matrix
Casino Royal
Jaws
The Dark Knight
Star Trek (2009)
 

Lord_Crow

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The "Saving Private Ryan" crowd in this thread are failing spectacularly.

As I mentioned before, the correct answer is "Apocalypse Now" and all other answers simply reveal the degree of lack of taste involved.

Martin Sheen, The Doors, Francis Ford Coppola. Helicopters. Massive fireball explosion.Easy answer. For those of you that did not view it the first time I posted this then please view then revise your incorrect answers accordingly:



Thank you. The Management.
 

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The Wild Bunch. If you have never seen Sam Peckinpah's restored cut on the big screen, you are missing a treat. It is a crazy first several minutes. Quentin Tarantino owes about half his career to Peckinpah.
That's actually not a bad take. I highly recommend the book "Blood Meridian" for all Wild Bunch fans as Cormac McCarthy takes WB type violence up a notch in that one. Downside is if you're not of above average intelligence at a minimum then you are not going to like reading Cormac McCarthy.
 

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An old man at a cemetery?

The cemetery scene transforming into the beach scene was the opening. If you don't think that qualifies, then that's on you.

Someone mentioned Bond films which is good. The Casino Royale foot chase was awesome.
 

UKwizard

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Someone mentioned Bond films which is good. The Casino Royale foot chase was awesome.

I mentioned Casino Royal and that is not the opening scene. The scene I was talking about is the highly stylized black and white confrontation with the traitor in his office and Bond telling him about the bathroom fight and his first kill. Great opening.
 

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^I feel like the kid in Southpark that got queefed on after seeing that. Please don't do whatever that is again in any Paddock thread.
 

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Yeah, I can see something naked on that, Im not watching that. However, my guess is that with its short post count but 3 year history, its another users account. I wonder what poster has a lot of different accounts with an affinity towards Fox cartoons?
 

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Easy. Boogie Nights. Medium shot to a Dutch tilt to a crane shot to a tracking shot to a steadicam with not cuts. A 3 plus minute seamless introduction of all the main characters. We know the setting, we know the era, we are fully immersed with only one take. The film is set up flawlessly. PTA at his best. No one does long takes better than him.
 
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Easy. Boogie Nights. Medium shot to a Dutch tilt to a crane shot to a tracking shot to a steadicam with not cuts. A 3 plus minute seamless introduction of all the main characters. We know the setting, we know the era, we are fully immersed with only one take. The film is set up flawlessly. PTA at his best. No one does long takes better than him.
That pool scene with "spill the wine" is one of the best.
 

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That pool scene with "spill the wine" is one of the best.
That movie has so many incredible scenes. The long take with William H Macy, the pool scene, the fire cracker sister christian scene, the donut scene. Knowing it was only PTA's second feature is insane.