Favorite opening scenes to movies

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  • Rich64
    Rich64 Posts: 51
    edited January 2006
    The very opening scene of Fast and the Furious,,,,thought I'd fly right off the couch..!! When you do this, make sure your volume is just right, or else!!
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited January 2006
    Emlyn wrote:
    The Wild Bunch


    ohhhh yeah...foreshadowing... that's the kids playing with the scorpions, right? Which is even better when you connect it with the ending... :eek: Good choice!
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  • karpiel666
    karpiel666 Posts: 173
    edited January 2006
    Definatly the opening to spice world, its a classic.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2006
    This girl is in her house and the doorbell rings. Some guy is there in just overalls and work boots and he says "Hi, I'm here to clean your pool." Then it just get's crazy, but I forgot the name of the movie...
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2006
    Favorite was propably Matrix Reloaded...Another is Independence Day,Shot of the Lunar Landing remains,then the Mother Ship comes over,vibrating the Moons surface...very good LFE passage.
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  • mldennison
    mldennison Posts: 307
    edited January 2006
    while it is not a very good movie after that, the openeing scene to Cliffhanger is pretty good. actually it is really the only scene worth watching in that movie :p
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  • kberg
    kberg Posts: 974
    edited January 2006
    Terminator 2 is pretty decent, but I think Jaws kills everything.
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  • Nelson57
    Nelson57 Posts: 190
    edited January 2006
    The Matrix (the Original). I'll never forget how blown away I was during the opening scene with Trinity, especially not knowing who was who, or what the story was about.
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  • okiepolkie
    okiepolkie Posts: 2,258
    edited January 2006
    Desperado
    Tschüss
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  • RAB
    RAB Posts: 8
    edited January 2006
    Walk on the Wild Side
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  • StopherJJ1980
    StopherJJ1980 Posts: 267
    edited January 2006
    Raiders and Saving Private Ryan have AWESOME openings...

    The opening credits for Se7en and Fight club are great...

    Ocean's Eleven, Office Space, Goodfellas, LOTR, Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction have good starts
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited January 2006
    The first time I saw the first Matrix it just put me in awe. Some others I like are, as mentioned already, master and commander (the cannon battle - some serious lfe and surround action) as well as the opening scene to Ice Age. Very funny / audio intensive first scene with scrat trying to get his acorn and running from the ice.
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited January 2006
    Lawrence of Arabia- Omar Shariff in black riding in on a camel
    The Right Stuff- Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier
    Airplane!- You knew it was going to be a riot
    Star Wars 4- The Battleship
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service- At the end of the scene Lazenby (the new Bond) looks at the camera after the girl gets away and pronounces, "This never happened to the other guy"
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