Best Movie Openings (1 Viewer)

[NFL2DF]

Opening scene from The Player, as meta as it gets before meta was popular.

I forget the name of the industry guy here (Walking Boot?) but if nothing else he would appreciate this scene.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Definitely Raiders.

Also came to mind:

Mad Max Fury Road - Some people didn't care for this movie (they are wrong). Opening to this was just amazing.

Spy Who Loved Me (or whatever one ends with him skiing off the mountain)

Full Metal Jacket

Saving Private Ryan

A ton more I'm not thinking of.

Mighty fine list there. 

I would add:

Night Of the Living Dead

2001

Halloween

 

[Brony]

Cliffhanger 

 

[wikkidpissah]

No one's said "Sharon Stone" yet?! Maaaan, this place is getting too tame...

 

[El Floppo]

Ronin started fast

 

[TripItUp]

Scream has a terrific  opening scene with peak Drew Barrymore.  Probably one of the best horror openers ever. 

 

[TheDirtyWord]

It goes without saying, but The Godfather.  Saving Private Ryan’s opening actually drains you putting you in a different frame of mind to watch the rest of the film.

Gravity in how they open the story in such a tranquil way and accelerate the story with an increasing velocity to that devastating meteor storm is jarring.

 

[badmojo1006]

Temple of doom.

Great opening scene, rest of the movie 

 

[Apple Jack]

Cliffhanger 

I was driving from Durango to Vail one day and right by Redcliff on 24 I saw a bunch of vehicles, trucks and so forth on the side of the road in a pretty sketchy spot. I looked over and there was a guy down on the edge of a cliff and another above him reaching out to him. I didn't see a camera or anything that necessarily indicated a film was being shot other than the implications of all the vehicles there and such a tripped out thing going on. Friends confirmed that Sylvester Stallone was in Redcliff filming something. Still haven't seen the movie but I imagine it was a pretty pivotal scene.

 

[Brony]

I was driving from Durango to Vail one day and right by Redcliff on 24 I saw a bunch of vehicles, trucks and so forth on the side of the road in a pretty sketchy spot. I looked over and there was a guy down on the edge of a cliff and another above him reaching out to him. I didn't see a camera or anything that necessarily indicated a film was being shot other than the implications of all the vehicles there and such a tripped out thing going on. Friends confirmed that Sylvester Stallone was in Redcliff filming something. Still haven't seen the movie but I imagine it was a pretty pivotal scene.

It's probably in the top 25 movies that Stallone has done. 

 

[El Floppo]

It's probably in the top 25 movies that Stallone has done. 

Just outside for me.

 

[Chaka]

It's probably in the top 25 movies that Stallone has done. 

Yes, it's definitely one of the films Stallone has done.

 

[dkp993]

It's probably in the top 25 movies that Stallone has done. 

Yes, it's definitely one of the films Stallone has done.

Without question it’s the best rock climbing movie Sly ever did. 

 

[Zow]

Inglorious Basterds

Best scene of the whole movie. 

 

[sports_fan]

Watchmen

 

[Joe Mammy]

Matrix. So badass.

Saw it first on the biggie, freshly released-- after the opening scene I was stunned, "this flick is groundbreaking!" 

 

[Ilov80s]

Without question it’s the best rock climbing movie Sly ever did. 

in the 90s at least 

 

[dkp993]

in the 90s at least 

It’s also his worst 

 

[Ilov80s]

It’s also his worst 

The 90s were an up and down decade for Sly 

 

[Ilov80s]

Now, I want you to remember that no ******* ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ******* die for his country.

 

[Insein]

One I just remembered is Star Trek VI. That amazing score and dramatic buildup to a massive explosion. Then we see a Sulu led Excelsior riding the explosion. Helluva way to start a movie.

 

[rustycolts]

The Shining was pretty good.  Liked Once upon A time in the west too.

 

[opensourcebeer]

Drive.

 

[Soulfly3]

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.

 

[The Goat]

Heat.

 

[ZenoRazon]

The Roadwarrior

Actually recorded that opening on a mixed tape. 

Also there...

The ending of Easy Rider.

That scene with Brando in the taxi in On the Waterfront.  I could have been a contender.

Bogard.....all the gin joints in the world and she has to walk into mine.

When the King of the natives is calling for  King Kong as they bang the gong, and we hear Kong  crashing thru the trees.

IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE....Frankenstein

The Lone Ranger (the original)...HI HO SILVER!

Like sands thru an hour glass so our the days of our lives.

And a bunch of similiar stuff..

 

[steeler6]

Inglorious Basterds

The tension in that scene is off the charts. 

 

[steeler6]

Just a generic pick, the opening segment of most James Bond movies.

I get tired just watching the opening to Casino Royal. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I get tired just watching the opening to Casino Royal. 

YouTube might have a best of openings that would rival a standalone movie.

 

[saintfool]

Ian McKellen's "Richard III" is pretty great opening

 

[Don Quixote]

The Roadwarrior

Actually recorded that opening on a mixed tape. 

Also there...

The ending of Easy Rider.

That scene with Brando in the taxi in On the Waterfront.  I could have been a contender.

Bogard.....all the gin joints in the world and she has to walk into mine.

When the King of the natives is calling for  King Kong as they bang the gong, and we hear Kong  crashing thru the trees.

IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE....Frankenstein

The Lone Ranger (the original)...HI HO SILVER!

Like sands thru an hour glass so our the days of our lives.

And a bunch of similiar stuff..

You realize that most of these are not the openings of those movies, right?

 

[El Floppo]

Just a generic pick, the opening segment of most James Bond movies.

I get tired just watching the opening to Casino Royal. 

it's not bad.

 

[ZenoRazon]

You realize that most of these are not the openings of those movies, right?

All that inspired by a powerful movie opening.

 

[stlrams]

Saving Private Ryan

Totally agree. Great battle scene that sets the tone for the entire movie