The Greatest Opening Movie Sequences Ever Filmed
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Date: 2020-07-14
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TensileStrength
My favorite opening scene is from the 1939 film Beau Geste. A unit a French Foreign Legion soldiers arrive to reinforce a fort that was under attack. From a distance, they see the fort hasn't fallen and the soldiers are still at their posts. But they're not answering him. As he gets closer, they don't open the gate. He scales the wall and sees the soldier in front of his is laying dead and hunched over his rifle. He looks around and the entire garrison is laying dead at the battlements, as if posed there as a sick joke. Then a gun shot rings out. from inside the fort.
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My favorite opening scene is from the 1939 film Beau Geste. A unit a French Foreign Legion soldiers arrive to reinforce a fort that was under attack. From a distance, they see the fort hasn't fallen and the soldiers are still at their posts. But they're not answering him. As he gets closer, they don't open the gate. He scales the wall and sees the soldier in front of his is laying dead and hunched over his rifle. He looks around and the entire garrison is laying dead at the battlements, as if posed there as a sick joke. Then a gun shot rings out. from inside the fort.
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Lee
When I first saw Predators, I thought the opening sequence was pretty original. The movie starts with the (anti-)hero waking up in free fall. That definitely got my attention and spiked my adrenaline. After he hits the ground (trees break his fall, one by one he encounters others who are mostly elite military types like him, from various parts of the world, who all have also been dropped from the sky. None of them know how they were abducted or by what organization. They don't know why they were chosen or where they are. They don't know why they have all been brought there.
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When I first saw Predators, I thought the opening sequence was pretty original. The movie starts with the (anti-)hero waking up in free fall. That definitely got my attention and spiked my adrenaline. After he hits the ground (trees break his fall, one by one he encounters others who are mostly elite military types like him, from various parts of the world, who all have also been dropped from the sky. None of them know how they were abducted or by what organization. They don't know why they were chosen or where they are. They don't know why they have all been brought there.
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Vespene
Austin Powers 3. They have Tom Cruise, Danny Devito, Michael Macdonald, and Britney Spears just filling in as cameos. The opening sequence is so long and hysterical that you don't want the actual movie to start. They put a lot of effort into the intro including Britney Spears and Mike Myers performing her new song, a completely choreographed dance routine, and a spoof off of mission impossible 2 featuring the lead character of mission impossible 2. I don't know if there has been a movie with a crazier intro out there.
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Austin Powers 3. They have Tom Cruise, Danny Devito, Michael Macdonald, and Britney Spears just filling in as cameos. The opening sequence is so long and hysterical that you don't want the actual movie to start. They put a lot of effort into the intro including Britney Spears and Mike Myers performing her new song, a completely choreographed dance routine, and a spoof off of mission impossible 2 featuring the lead character of mission impossible 2. I don't know if there has been a movie with a crazier intro out there.
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Hellbent706
I think The Six Million Dollar Man Opening is the best opening of all. Even though it's not on your list. Just based on the time it was made. There was no CGI or real special effects in 1973. Yet, the opening was absolutely brilliant without it because they were able to acquire real footage which turned out to be better than any special effects available at the time. Imagine if it had 2019 CGI and the special effects available today. The SMDM opening has become a cult classic that's even studied in film schools.
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I think The Six Million Dollar Man Opening is the best opening of all. Even though it's not on your list. Just based on the time it was made. There was no CGI or real special effects in 1973. Yet, the opening was absolutely brilliant without it because they were able to acquire real footage which turned out to be better than any special effects available at the time. Imagine if it had 2019 CGI and the special effects available today. The SMDM opening has become a cult classic that's even studied in film schools.
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Nathan
I saw the original STAR WARS in 1977 in the center of the second row from the front (after waiting 5 hours in two lines to get in) of a wide-screen CINEMAX theater with not even a hint of what the movie was really about (all I knew were word-of-mouth comments; no adds, movie or TV, to my knowledge. The start literallyblew my mind -- I said to myself, I don't care if the rest of the movie is crap; I have had my money's worth! The best opening scene of any movie, ever!
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I saw the original STAR WARS in 1977 in the center of the second row from the front (after waiting 5 hours in two lines to get in) of a wide-screen CINEMAX theater with not even a hint of what the movie was really about (all I knew were word-of-mouth comments; no adds, movie or TV, to my knowledge. The start literallyblew my mind -- I said to myself, I don't care if the rest of the movie is crap; I have had my money's worth! The best opening scene of any movie, ever!
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FmMaj9
Baby Driver has the most amazing opening car chase. Fast Times At Ridgemont High to the Go-Go's We Got The Beat. The Graduate's Sound of Silence. Apocalypse Now to The Doors' The End. Jaws? How about Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (the ants fighting the scorpion, only to be burned by the little kids, foretelling what happens in the movie, where no one is a good guy. Gotta say Saving Private Ryan has another great opening, certainly better than Dazed & Confused.
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Baby Driver has the most amazing opening car chase. Fast Times At Ridgemont High to the Go-Go's We Got The Beat. The Graduate's Sound of Silence. Apocalypse Now to The Doors' The End. Jaws? How about Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (the ants fighting the scorpion, only to be burned by the little kids, foretelling what happens in the movie, where no one is a good guy. Gotta say Saving Private Ryan has another great opening, certainly better than Dazed & Confused.
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tomenicus
really? These are the greatest openings? Tell you what is the greatest opening ever made. It's Lion King's. Sun rise with dramatic song in the background and exposition made of song and landscape and display of the newborn and large title of movie on the end and we know where, when and who in the damn 2 minutes of visual and sound feast. watch some more goddamitt movies bro.
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really? These are the greatest openings? Tell you what is the greatest opening ever made. It's Lion King's. Sun rise with dramatic song in the background and exposition made of song and landscape and display of the newborn and large title of movie on the end and we know where, when and who in the damn 2 minutes of visual and sound feast. watch some more goddamitt movies bro.
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John
I know alot of people hate this movie, but Revenge of the Sith's intro was amazing. Godly music, Excellent Cgi, top-notch cinematography, so much intensity, really everything was just amazingly executed. Seeing Obi Wan and Anakin fly into that ridiculously huge battle with Coruscant in the background is breathtaking and sets up the apocalyptic feel of the movie.
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I know alot of people hate this movie, but Revenge of the Sith's intro was amazing. Godly music, Excellent Cgi, top-notch cinematography, so much intensity, really everything was just amazingly executed. Seeing Obi Wan and Anakin fly into that ridiculously huge battle with Coruscant in the background is breathtaking and sets up the apocalyptic feel of the movie.
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Dwight
The opening in rob zombies 31 is fantastic. The rest of the movie was okay. Richard brake was amazing in it though. One of my favs. He delivered a hell of a opening scene. Underrated actor. The opening to Halloween 2 another rob zombie was really good to me. The opening to the third dark knight is fantastic. Set the tone for the whole amazing movie.
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The opening in rob zombies 31 is fantastic. The rest of the movie was okay. Richard brake was amazing in it though. One of my favs. He delivered a hell of a opening scene. Underrated actor. The opening to Halloween 2 another rob zombie was really good to me. The opening to the third dark knight is fantastic. Set the tone for the whole amazing movie.
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