best opening sequence

Goodshape

..ok.. probably done b4, but whats everyones favourite opening sequence to a film?

....just seen the start of Barb Wire.... flupin wonderful stuff

pity about the rest of the movie :rolleyes:

anyhoo, apart from that piece of cinematic genius, how about Full Metal Jacket.... the hair coming off, and then the initial line-up with Sgt. Hartman telling them whats what...

"..you will not laugh! you will not cry!"
"..I dont look down on ****, kites, wops or greasers. to me you are all equally worthless"

great stuff

gandalf

Another awful film with a great opening is Swordfish. I'll never be able to look at ballbearings the same again

Gandalf.

WhiteWashMan

yeah, the opening scene in swordfish is awsome.
of course, everything is awsome when you have the ultimate home cinema experience
42" rear view projection wide screen, the whole surround sound thing going on. truely tremendous.

oh and you cant beat indiana jones and the raiders of the loat ark

the celtic tiger

RTE are showing all three indy movies over Christmas. Superb.

EvilGeorge

Titan AE - to see the planet destroyed in the first few minutes - excellent!

TwoShedsJackson

Fight Club.

FreaK_BrutheR

Withnail and I. The panic Attack. Cool!

eddhorse

well the matrix opening sequence just got u ready and waiting for the rest of the movie which was equally gravity defying stuff.....awesome

Da Bounca

The start of Gladiator was pretty slick also.

And the start of Terminator.

Miguel_Sanchez

Touch of Evil and The Player both had brilliant one-shot starts.

I also love the starting sequence of Raising Arizona and Goodfellas.

And the opening shot of both Godfather and Clockwork Orange are classics.

Mills

I'd have to say Fight Club too, brilliant stuff, good the first time and clever when you're watching it again, makes me smile every time .

Bard

Mmmm... Fight Club! Deffo'!

also- for the sheer hilarity and the enormous explosion:

Lethal Weapon 3 ... "oops!"

mike65

The opening 10 mins of Cliffhanger are truely gripping,
I nearly fell off my seat, but as for the other 90 mins...

The Taking of Pelham 123 is also great but for the
jazzy David Shire score rather than anything you see,
its a great flick and on the box this Xmas.

Ditto The Warriors with Barry DeVorzons brill music score.

The opening of Scanners is memorable too!

Mike.

plastic membrane

Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski
Touch of Evil and The Player both had brilliant one-shot starts.

I also love the starting sequence of Raising Arizona and Goodfellas.

And the opening shot of both Godfather and Clockwork Orange are classics.

Damn it, you took them all. Raising Arizona has to be the best, from the banjo playing on the soundtrack to the classic line "You ate sand ?"

Baz_

i have to go for swordfish meself, spectacular.

I was expecting a bad movie, saw the opening seen, changed my mind, but in the end I received a bad movie. Let that be a lesson to you all, always expect the worst.

Pugsley

Swordfish Id say.......
Even though everyone says the rest of the film is cr*p i thought it was reasonable for a big budget thing pumped out by hollywood.

TwoShedsJackson

Ah yes, Raising Arizona, 'the doctors told me her womb was a barren place in which mah seed could find no purchase'

Vokes

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

...saw it today

Draco

Originally posted by SofaKing
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

Yup...the open battle is excellent.

Imlad Morgul

did i watch a different film?
the start of it showed the shire afaik. frodo and gandalf..........

gandalf

Err scrap that Swordfish crap I'm going with LotR as well !!!

Imlad did you get into the cinema late

Gandalf.

Lemming

Saving Private Ryan??

orrr .. (since I was watching it last night) ...

the opening scene in "Transformers: the Movie". An ENTIRE planet gets wasted. Well .. it gets eaten by a planet thingy (later revealed to be "Unicron").

Beat that one hehehehe

(since I haven't seen LOTR yet - Friday 19.15 showing for me!)

Da Bounca

Absolutely, im going with FOTR.

The_Bullman

is it just me or was the start of saving private ryan the oul fella + his family goin' into the big grave yard. the big battle whilst being sheer cinematic brilliance wasn't the opening sequence.


ah well, what do I know.

Celt

Gladiator, no doubts.

Lemming

Originally posted by The_Bullman
is it just me or was the start of saving private ryan the oul fella + his family goin' into the big grave yard. the big battle whilst being sheer cinematic brilliance wasn't the opening sequence.


ah well, what do I know.

ooops!! You're absolutely right Bullman. I'll go hide now!!

Karl Hungus

I have to say The Fellowship Of The Ring is the best opening sequence I've EVER seen.

Nothing short of breath-taking.

Pugwash

gladiator, fight club and LOTR openings are royally class.

Samson

Originally posted by The_Bullman
is it just me or was the start of saving private ryan the oul fella + his family goin' into the big grave yard. the big battle whilst being sheer cinematic brilliance wasn't the opening sequence.


ah well, what do I know.

I get your point, but I think you are being a little bit too pedantic.
I was gonna say Private Ryan too

DeVore

LOTR. Nuff said.

DeV.

DrunkLeprachaun

Fellowship Of The Ring was outstanding. Fecking brilliant.

Pugsley

Cancle that vote for swordfish......
Because it doesnt even compete with LotR. The more amazing part of the opening senquence of LotR is that every Orc had his own unique weapons and armour. Must have took years to do

Kulgan

Blade was fairly good as far as i remember.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Pugsley
Cancle that vote for swordfish......
Because it doesnt even compete with LotR. The more amazing part of the opening senquence of LotR is that every Orc had his own unique weapons and armour. Must have took years to do

I beleive Peter Jackson started in 1995.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Fight Club-
mainly because it has the Dust Brothers tune pounding away:)

AFAIR The Matrix had a good intro as well.

Teleute

FOTR - BEST FILM EVER!!!!

alb

Clockwork orange for me. In fact the whole first quarter of the movie is possible my favourite ever. LOTR was great too

Boston

Fight Club. had an excellent opening scene, what made it so great wasnt the scene its self but the rest of the film, the way its climated at the begining and then worked backwards, it wasnt orginal, but in every other film ive seen it in, had truely messed it up, wereas fight club brought that whole style of story tell to a new level.
the film was about think and looking at the world in a new way, partly cinical partly inspiring.

BTW blade did have a god intro, and not a bad ending for an action film

richydoo2

LotR's Had a pretty fu cking sweet opening, so did Fight Club,
but for me Pulp Fiction gave you a taste of the the the whole film, the restraunt bit.






If ya know what I mean................................

Shinji

The Matrix. It's been cheapened and watered down by imitation, but seeing that opening scene in the cinema for the first time was absolutely mindblowing, jawdropping stuff.

For sheer scale and astonishment, Gladiator. LotR was bigger and badder, but somehow the scale of Gladiator, even though it showed a smaller battle, was more impressive. And made me want to shout "0wned!" more.