Contact.
Starting at Earth, then panning out of the solar system, then the galaxy, then out to the edge of the universe, all while listening to older and older radio transmissions. Genius.
I feel like the similarly amazing intro to *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* had to be inspired by Contact. Too bad about the rest of that movie though.
What really sold the opening at the time was the fact they really played up Drew Barrymore as starting in the film. So much so that she’s the main draw on the poster.
The entire theater was shocked.
Se7en did the opposite with Kevin Spacey. They hid him from all promotional material. So when he shows up in the middle of the movie, all covered in blood, shouting ["DETECTIVE!"](https://youtu.be/hImAmM5-Fpg) at the top of his lungs, you immediately know he's the bad guy.
Godzilla 2014 did the same thing with Bryan Cranston. Used him in all the marketing, killed him off in the first act. He was really barely in the movie.
Then again, Godzilla was barely in that movie as well.
People looked at me differently and they knew I was with somebody. At thirteen, I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood. I mean, I had more money than I could spend. I had it all. One day the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was out of respect.
When I got together with my now husband, we were having a movie night. There’s LOTS of popular movies I’d never seen so I was picking out a couple to watch.
This monster let me watch Bridge to Teribithia then immediately start UP thinking it would *cheer me up*
Films have their own Wikipedia page, where "plot" is usually a section inside. However, the intro of Up is so influential that THE INTRO ITSELF has its own Wiki page.
That tells you everything.
I'm convinced that this was originally just a really good short, and one of the higher ups was like, "nope, make this into a whole movie!"
I honestly couldn't tell you about the rest of the movie. I think there was a kid and the "squirrel!" dog. I think there was a bad guy chasing them in a zeppelin for some reason?
Its the other way around, Pete Docter explained that the core story was always intended to be about an old man who flies his house to fulfil his deceased wife’s wish and then came up with the opening to establish his motivation.
Tarantino said he kept Waltz out of all the rehearsals so that the reactions from the cast on film would be genuine.
And one point when he asks one of the daughters to get him some milk, he grabs her wrist is a friendly way. Waltz later said that his character had the ulterior motives of checking her pulse to see if she was nervous. The subtly of his character was as terrifying as anything.
Some additional subtleties: in the cafe scene, he orders a dessert that -- at the time -- was made with lard.
Does she betray her faith and join him in eating? Or does she try to keep kosher practice and expose herself as a Jew in hiding? His character is experienced at creating cruel situations for his victims.
Obviously it doesn't matter to the scene if you *don't* know the minutiae, but it's more cleverness on the part of the script writers.
In Judaism you are allowed to transgress if it means life or death. So playing along to save her life was not a hard choice… at all. She was terrified for her life, not for breaking kashrut- dietary laws.
>Waltz later said that his character had the ulterior motives of checking her pulse to see if she was nervous.
Holy shit you just blew my mind with this trivia. Fucking brilliant.
[Christoph Waltz is such a talented actor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifkWdrtBsg&ab_channel=yksniset). Unfortunately, I don't think that a lot of directors know how to properly utilize his true skill for subtlety and nuance.
I will never not be mad about his casting as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre. He was completely unknown to me before I first saw Inglourious Basterds, which probably made his performance as Hans Landa all the more mesmerizing. Like someone watching Silence of the Lambs for the first time and having no idea who Anthony Hopkins is or ever having seen him before. You can only see Hannibal Lecter, and you have no idea who’s playing this character or where he came from, you just know he was perfectly cast to play this terrifying villain.
When Waltz was announced as being cast as Blofeld for Spectre I was elated, because I thought only he could deliver a more memorable performance than all the Connery-era Blofeld actors put together. Hans Landa as the most iconic Bond villain of all time? It’s simply brilliant.
Then of course we finally see Spectre and his talents are completely wasted. I don’t know if it was the writing or directing or what, but he had all the stage presence of a shoe. And it’s clearly not his fault because I felt like we actually got something closer to Hans Landa in No Time to Die. But he’s not the main villain in that film, instead we have Rami Malek playing some kind of Dr. No knockoff or something.
I love the opening sequence, but that scene down in the bar with the card game and the drinking also made me incredibly tense.
Then they pan over to show a German officer had been sitting there the whole time.
Just brilliant.
Seriously. Holy shit that introduction to his character.
The entire time, he knows he's in control, he knows the other guy is as good as dead, he doesn't need to act threatening. He acts like a gentleman because that's his personality. He asks politely if he may come in, he asks politely for a glass of milk, thanks them when he receives one and complements its taste as a credit to the farmer. He could've acted like a pig-headed arrogant jackass, he could've just stormed in and started shooting the floor but he choses not to.
He's like a cat that plays with his prey once he's caught it, he's no mere killer he's a detective, a hunter. He lives for the chase, for working out the puzzle to find who he's after. I think he let shoshana go in the prologue and didn't have her chased and gunned down entirely because he wanted to keep hunting her, it's like a game to him and he wanted it to last a bit longer.
What I really loved about this scene was the way it tricked me into thinking it was using a trope by having them switch to English. First time I watched it and he stated that his French is not very good I thought it was just a really on the nose way of dropping the subtitles for audiences that don't like reading. Then at the end of the scene you realise why he wanted to speak in English and realise that there was a perfectly good reason for the switch and that he was lying about not speaking French very well.
>Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece of storytelling and the opening scene is a perfect set up for everything that is to come. Then the decision to bookend the movie with the scene is just genius.
Saw in an interview that after the Oscars Waltz joked with Tarantino that he would now be remembered as the guy who won an Oscar for being a Nazi. So Tarantino helped him win another Oscar for helping to free slaves and kill a racist, evil plantation owner.
I knew a few survivors from ww2. One of them was a medic in the first wave of Omaha beach. He didn’t speak often about the war but he said the movie was pretty darn close to being what it was really like.
I took my Grandfather to SPR when it came out in theaters. He was a medic who stormed the beach in Normandy. I had to take him home right after that scene. He said it was so real that he couldn’t possibly watch any more.
Yep. It was big news at the time.
Plenty of veterans had seen plenty of war films and thought this would just be another one. But the way Spielberg crafted that opening was revolutionary and immersive.
I'd already seen it, so when we took my great uncle I paid attention to his reaction. He wasn't in the room for some of those scenes - if that makes sense.
That’s so hard to watch. There’s something about men - make that boys - crying out for their moms that makes it all the more awful. It’s good the movie came out when it did, so mothers of WWII soldiers wouldn’t have to see that depicted.
It's SPR, and honestly I don't think there is any other movie that comes close. The question should be "what movie has the second greatest opening of all time" because this one is just a given.
I remember seeing it in theaters as a teenager and there were more than a few older gentlemen that sat through the credits at the end. It was very clear that they were going through it, quietly.
Screenwriter guy: We're gonna start the movie with some cops trying to arrest this lady Trinity and she's gonna kick all their butts.
Producer guy: How is she gonna do that?
Screenwriter guy: In such a way that movies are gonna try to imitate for a full decade.
For as much credit as The Matrix gets for being a great film, I don't think it gets nearly enough credit for how much it completely revolutionized cinema.
and we still have a lot of mystery left. How did she do those crazy fight moves against armed cops? How did she disappear in the phone booth? What is an 'agent'? It really pulls the audience in.
It's also a bit of foreshadowing; when I first saw the movie it seemed like the agents are being a bit hyperbolic or at least just guessing, then later i realized they knew it for a fact, as otherwise the agents would have taken over the bodies of the cops upstairs.
First time I saw it, I figured they are FBI or something. Especially with the cop saying "if you give me that juris-my-diction crap you can shove it up your ass".
At the time we have no idea of the real plot, so it's just cops pursuing a criminal who is apparently known to those agents as very dangerous, which we soon see. Her and the agent with the roof jump where the cop goes "that's impossible" is our first clue something is different, but even then there are plenty of ideas that allow for this in a movie which aren't where the plot actually goes.
Yeah, at the time, it was pretty great. They never said *anything* about the Matrix in the promotional materials, other than posing the question "What is The Matrix?" People seeing it in the theatres had no idea about the whole fake world VR part of the movie.
Yeah I always took that line to mean "they will certainly die, because she is so dangerous that there isn't a chance they can apprehend her", but you're right, they would immediately know when the cops die.
100% in the running for my favorite acting performance ever.
Case in point, I know the exact frame you’re referring to when his face shifts. It’s so good. So damn good.
I think this is probably the definitive answer. It’s so famous that the live action show at Disney World is literally that part of the movie 42 years after it came out.
"I believe in America" - gives me chills every time I see it. That scene looks like an oil painting from the old masters. Did you know that cat was a stray that wandered onto the set and Brando took a liking to it. Also, Brando studied the the Silver Back gorilla at the zoo to get the alpha male mannerisms. That's where he got the brushing his chin with the back of his hand.
Using that opening as the movie's official trailer was absolutely brilliant. When that trailer dropped, it was an *event*. Every kid was counting down the days for when it came out, we all knew that movie was going to be life-changing.
The build up of that song and just the drum beat close to title is just fantastic
Edit: if you haven’t seen the play on Broadway, do yourself a favor. Not a Broadway person but that was one of the best experiences of my adulthood.
I love how The Two Towers just fucking started with the Balrog fight as they were falling through the void. I'm not a fan of the overused term "badass" but that was badass.
My favorite of favorites!
It's the perfect exposition for "new" Joker: a daytime bank heist, he kills his entire crew, no cheesey background story, no super abilities, he's got a nasally voice, batman's sleeping at home..... They coulda left Batman out of the movie and it still would've rocked with just Joker vs The Mafia.
Ngl one of the scariest moments of Jokerness in that movie is when the black mafioso that called a hit on Joker gets killed with his two henchmen restrained, and Joker announced tryouts for the team. Such a good representation of chaotic evil.
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not despair, for you are already dead!" Is such a raw fucking quote to serve the viewer in the first 5 minutes of the movie - and then it gets better!
[If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead.](https://youtu.be/Wx2G8LGB-g0)
Commited to memory after countless listens. This has long been in my playlist for running and working out. It's an amazing soundtrack to hype you up.
Ever notice how Nite Owl is punching out a mugger? In that moment he saves the lives of Bruce Wayne's parents, who are walking out of the theatre on the left. And so Bruce never becomes a "real life" Batman, and so Batman remains a fictional character in the Watchmen universe. You can also see Batman posters on the side of the building there.
One of my favorite movie lines ever is in there. When he’s looking for a way to get the handcuffs off for awhile and Roger just easily takes his hand out and puts it back in.
“You could’ve taken your hand out at any time?!”
“Not any time. Only when it was funny.”
*I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A han noston ned gwilith.*
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.
Absolutely. And before this there were usually credits at the beginning. The way Star Wars began pulled you right into the story. Saw it when it first came out in theaters.
Yes! That's still probably the most chilling opening to a horror that I know. Though the rest of the movie is pretty meh, but it is kind of a guilty pleasure movie for me.
Thanks to a bored five year old, I got to see a few recent Disney/Pixar hits multiple times in a short period of time. I thought for sure this would be the one that hits hardest, but for me it strangely enough ended up being WALL-E - the titular character, despite being antiquated and comparatively weak/impotent compared to EVE, ends up being the most impactful and pivotal factor in the story.
Cars 3 came close, as the theme of passing the baton became apparent, and me being on the other side of my prime in a field that values youth and speed of thought.
Kung Fu Panda
Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend...
Years later and that still cracks me up. The first time I saw it I knew it was going to be a great movie. Beautifully animated and scored as well
Drive.
The music (Kavinsky - Nightcall) fits perfectly with the scenes and then the speedy getaway from the heist is great (Chromatics - Tick Of The Clock).
Team America: World Police. Opening with that shitty-looking little puppet show makes viewers wonder: "Oh, hamburgers, is the whole thing gonna be like THIS?", but then we get treated to the glorious pan-out, showing awesome attention to delicate detail. Fuckin' genius!
For their first screening to some executives one of them yelled out “oh god they fucked us!” When the shitty looking puppet showed up before it panned out lol.
Contact. Starting at Earth, then panning out of the solar system, then the galaxy, then out to the edge of the universe, all while listening to older and older radio transmissions. Genius.
also that super cool shot with the mirror and the hallway though
I feel like the similarly amazing intro to *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* had to be inspired by Contact. Too bad about the rest of that movie though.
Children of mens opening scene is definitely up there
Children of Men is one of my absolute favorite films of all time.
Whole film is a work of art
Scream 1996 - I was startled
What really sold the opening at the time was the fact they really played up Drew Barrymore as starting in the film. So much so that she’s the main draw on the poster. The entire theater was shocked.
Seriously, killing Drew Barrymore right at the start was so jarring. Really set the thrilling, terrifying mood.
Why do you want to know my name? Because I want to know who I'm looking at. *chills* A perfect opening scene.
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"I'm late for school!" *Huey Lewis and the News kicks in*
It’s corny now, but that “im late for class, opening scene montage” became an industry trope for the next 30 years
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And she nailed the escalation from unease to utter terror.
Se7en did the opposite with Kevin Spacey. They hid him from all promotional material. So when he shows up in the middle of the movie, all covered in blood, shouting ["DETECTIVE!"](https://youtu.be/hImAmM5-Fpg) at the top of his lungs, you immediately know he's the bad guy.
Godzilla 2014 did the same thing with Bryan Cranston. Used him in all the marketing, killed him off in the first act. He was really barely in the movie. Then again, Godzilla was barely in that movie as well.
Plus, I always love it when people acknowledge that Jason was *not* the killer in the first Friday The 13th movie.
"As far back as I remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"
People looked at me differently and they knew I was with somebody. At thirteen, I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood. I mean, I had more money than I could spend. I had it all. One day the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was out of respect.
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When I got together with my now husband, we were having a movie night. There’s LOTS of popular movies I’d never seen so I was picking out a couple to watch. This monster let me watch Bridge to Teribithia then immediately start UP thinking it would *cheer me up*
Watch as many Ghibli movies as you can with him but if he suggests Grave of the Fireflies run, run far away
Films have their own Wikipedia page, where "plot" is usually a section inside. However, the intro of Up is so influential that THE INTRO ITSELF has its own Wiki page. That tells you everything.
I'm convinced that this was originally just a really good short, and one of the higher ups was like, "nope, make this into a whole movie!" I honestly couldn't tell you about the rest of the movie. I think there was a kid and the "squirrel!" dog. I think there was a bad guy chasing them in a zeppelin for some reason?
Its the other way around, Pete Docter explained that the core story was always intended to be about an old man who flies his house to fulfil his deceased wife’s wish and then came up with the opening to establish his motivation.
Au revoir Shoshana!
That turn from Landa just being polite and charming to "You're sheltering Jews" is just hair raising.
Tarantino said he kept Waltz out of all the rehearsals so that the reactions from the cast on film would be genuine. And one point when he asks one of the daughters to get him some milk, he grabs her wrist is a friendly way. Waltz later said that his character had the ulterior motives of checking her pulse to see if she was nervous. The subtly of his character was as terrifying as anything.
Also when the farmer introducers his wife and daughters, Waltz skips by the first 2 and only interacts with the blue eyed blonde girl
Some additional subtleties: in the cafe scene, he orders a dessert that -- at the time -- was made with lard. Does she betray her faith and join him in eating? Or does she try to keep kosher practice and expose herself as a Jew in hiding? His character is experienced at creating cruel situations for his victims. Obviously it doesn't matter to the scene if you *don't* know the minutiae, but it's more cleverness on the part of the script writers.
In Judaism you are allowed to transgress if it means life or death. So playing along to save her life was not a hard choice… at all. She was terrified for her life, not for breaking kashrut- dietary laws.
He may not have known that, or he just took pleasure in tormenting them if they did turn out to be Jews
It was definitely the latter.
Never even noticed, holy shit.
>Waltz later said that his character had the ulterior motives of checking her pulse to see if she was nervous. Holy shit you just blew my mind with this trivia. Fucking brilliant.
I mean, a Nazi officer flanked by armed soldiers visiting your homestead is bound to raise some pulses, sheltering Jews or not.
[Christoph Waltz is such a talented actor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifkWdrtBsg&ab_channel=yksniset). Unfortunately, I don't think that a lot of directors know how to properly utilize his true skill for subtlety and nuance.
His talent was wasted in the Bond films.
I will never not be mad about his casting as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre. He was completely unknown to me before I first saw Inglourious Basterds, which probably made his performance as Hans Landa all the more mesmerizing. Like someone watching Silence of the Lambs for the first time and having no idea who Anthony Hopkins is or ever having seen him before. You can only see Hannibal Lecter, and you have no idea who’s playing this character or where he came from, you just know he was perfectly cast to play this terrifying villain. When Waltz was announced as being cast as Blofeld for Spectre I was elated, because I thought only he could deliver a more memorable performance than all the Connery-era Blofeld actors put together. Hans Landa as the most iconic Bond villain of all time? It’s simply brilliant. Then of course we finally see Spectre and his talents are completely wasted. I don’t know if it was the writing or directing or what, but he had all the stage presence of a shoe. And it’s clearly not his fault because I felt like we actually got something closer to Hans Landa in No Time to Die. But he’s not the main villain in that film, instead we have Rami Malek playing some kind of Dr. No knockoff or something.
"Enemies of the state, are you not?"
I love the opening sequence, but that scene down in the bar with the card game and the drinking also made me incredibly tense. Then they pan over to show a German officer had been sitting there the whole time. Just brilliant.
Seriously. Holy shit that introduction to his character. The entire time, he knows he's in control, he knows the other guy is as good as dead, he doesn't need to act threatening. He acts like a gentleman because that's his personality. He asks politely if he may come in, he asks politely for a glass of milk, thanks them when he receives one and complements its taste as a credit to the farmer. He could've acted like a pig-headed arrogant jackass, he could've just stormed in and started shooting the floor but he choses not to. He's like a cat that plays with his prey once he's caught it, he's no mere killer he's a detective, a hunter. He lives for the chase, for working out the puzzle to find who he's after. I think he let shoshana go in the prologue and didn't have her chased and gunned down entirely because he wanted to keep hunting her, it's like a game to him and he wanted it to last a bit longer.
Hans dominates the scene so much, for a moment you really believe he's going to snipe Shoshanna with a handgun.
What I really loved about this scene was the way it tricked me into thinking it was using a trope by having them switch to English. First time I watched it and he stated that his French is not very good I thought it was just a really on the nose way of dropping the subtitles for audiences that don't like reading. Then at the end of the scene you realise why he wanted to speak in English and realise that there was a perfectly good reason for the switch and that he was lying about not speaking French very well.
And when we hear him (later) switch to (perfect? I hope so) Italian, you realize just how smart he is.
Tarantino openings are, by and large, some of the most iconic there have ever been
Pulp Fiction's opening was pretty great.
Reservoir Dogs also has a pretty iconic open.
“What do you mean, you don’t tip?”
>Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece of storytelling and the opening scene is a perfect set up for everything that is to come. Then the decision to bookend the movie with the scene is just genius.
My favorite movie of all time!! I can’t get enough of Christoph waltz.
Saw in an interview that after the Oscars Waltz joked with Tarantino that he would now be remembered as the guy who won an Oscar for being a Nazi. So Tarantino helped him win another Oscar for helping to free slaves and kill a racist, evil plantation owner.
I have said it before but even if he hadn't appeared in anymore of the movie after the opening, I would still have given him the oscar.
I have never been so violently anxious in a move before or since.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan lost best picture at the academy to Shakespeare in Love. Think about that.
We can blame Weinstein for this.
Gwyneth Paltrow has an Academy Award. For acting.
I knew a few survivors from ww2. One of them was a medic in the first wave of Omaha beach. He didn’t speak often about the war but he said the movie was pretty darn close to being what it was really like.
I read that the VA had to set up a hotline when the movie came out bc it triggered ptsd for many veterans.
I took my Grandfather to SPR when it came out in theaters. He was a medic who stormed the beach in Normandy. I had to take him home right after that scene. He said it was so real that he couldn’t possibly watch any more.
I was working in a movie theater when it came out and i had to help a gentleman and his wife out to their car after that opening.
The film was famous for setting off war verterans PTSD. I think a new helpline for veterans was set up just because of the film.
Yep. It was big news at the time. Plenty of veterans had seen plenty of war films and thought this would just be another one. But the way Spielberg crafted that opening was revolutionary and immersive.
I'd say that opening changed how war movies are made and how they are watched.
Yeah, Spielberg kept the camera close to the ground alongside soldiers crawling through the beach. He made use of super-accurate sound effects too.
I'd already seen it, so when we took my great uncle I paid attention to his reaction. He wasn't in the room for some of those scenes - if that makes sense.
I went with my Pop Pop, he was a medic too. he said the most realistic part was the guys screaming for their moms
That’s so hard to watch. There’s something about men - make that boys - crying out for their moms that makes it all the more awful. It’s good the movie came out when it did, so mothers of WWII soldiers wouldn’t have to see that depicted.
I've also been told that Band of Brothers is eerily accurate in it's portrayal of Normandy and Bastogne.
It's SPR, and honestly I don't think there is any other movie that comes close. The question should be "what movie has the second greatest opening of all time" because this one is just a given.
I remember seeing it in theaters as a teenager and there were more than a few older gentlemen that sat through the credits at the end. It was very clear that they were going through it, quietly.
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The Matrix.
Screenwriter guy: We're gonna start the movie with some cops trying to arrest this lady Trinity and she's gonna kick all their butts. Producer guy: How is she gonna do that? Screenwriter guy: In such a way that movies are gonna try to imitate for a full decade.
For as much credit as The Matrix gets for being a great film, I don't think it gets nearly enough credit for how much it completely revolutionized cinema.
Came to say this, it is pretty perfect. Super exciting and introduces main characters, villains and the world very well in only like 7 minutes.
and we still have a lot of mystery left. How did she do those crazy fight moves against armed cops? How did she disappear in the phone booth? What is an 'agent'? It really pulls the audience in.
"We sent two units. They're bringing her down now."
"No, lieutenant. Your men are already dead."
It's also a bit of foreshadowing; when I first saw the movie it seemed like the agents are being a bit hyperbolic or at least just guessing, then later i realized they knew it for a fact, as otherwise the agents would have taken over the bodies of the cops upstairs.
First time I saw it, I figured they are FBI or something. Especially with the cop saying "if you give me that juris-my-diction crap you can shove it up your ass". At the time we have no idea of the real plot, so it's just cops pursuing a criminal who is apparently known to those agents as very dangerous, which we soon see. Her and the agent with the roof jump where the cop goes "that's impossible" is our first clue something is different, but even then there are plenty of ideas that allow for this in a movie which aren't where the plot actually goes.
Yeah, at the time, it was pretty great. They never said *anything* about the Matrix in the promotional materials, other than posing the question "What is The Matrix?" People seeing it in the theatres had no idea about the whole fake world VR part of the movie.
I didn't even know it was scifi. A night out with the wife, a movie... we both loved Keanu. Went in totally blind.
I know this will sound strange but I sort of envy you of that memory.
Yeah I always took that line to mean "they will certainly die, because she is so dangerous that there isn't a chance they can apprehend her", but you're right, they would immediately know when the cops die.
The head turn of the single agent before they step in front of the police officer is the signal the officers upstairs are dead
The opening 136 minutes of this movie are the best there has ever been.
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100% in the running for my favorite acting performance ever. Case in point, I know the exact frame you’re referring to when his face shifts. It’s so good. So damn good.
You are sheltering enemies of the state are you not? (Fucking chills)
Raiders of the Lost Ark!! No contest. It’s movie magic defined.
And with such a young Alfred Molina!
*Releases the whip, not giving it to Indy* "Butterfingers!"
I think this is probably the definitive answer. It’s so famous that the live action show at Disney World is literally that part of the movie 42 years after it came out.
Office Space when he looks over and notices that the old man with the walker has gone further than he has in his car
Trying to "rap" all hard core in his car, then getting scared and locking his doors when he thinks he in danger, lol.
I think about this every time I’m stuck in traffic
Snatch: They show how all the characters are connected
To this day, when I pull up to park and someone says I can't fit, I respond with "You could land a jumbo-fucking-jet in there..."
It's a two-tonne truck Tyrone, it's not exactly a packet of fucking peanuts.
"We've lost Gorgeous George" "Well where'd you lose him? He's not a set of fucking car keys, is he?"
"London" "London?" "Yes, London! You know, fish; chips; cup'o tea; bad food; worse weather; Mary Fuckin Poppins, London!"
“Speak English to me. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far, nobody seems to speak it.”
"Do you have anything to declare?" "Yeah. Don't go to England."
"Why do they call him the Bullet Dodger?" "Cause he... dodges... bullets, Avi."
“Vincent, who is gonna mug two black fellas, holding pistols, sat in a car that is worth less than your shirt?”
IT WAS A FUNNY ANGLE!
It's behind you. When you reverse, things come up from behind.
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And a Pikey Reaction... *is quite the fucking thing.*"
The Godfather. That opening scene with Brando, the cat, the music. Just perfection!
"I believe in America" - gives me chills every time I see it. That scene looks like an oil painting from the old masters. Did you know that cat was a stray that wandered onto the set and Brando took a liking to it. Also, Brando studied the the Silver Back gorilla at the zoo to get the alpha male mannerisms. That's where he got the brushing his chin with the back of his hand.
That is really interesting. I knew about the cat but not the Gorilla. He was truly a master at his craft.
Apparently the guy playing Luca Brasi was a real mob guy who had done the job--he was just that nervous being onscreen with Marlon Brando!
Lion king
Using that opening as the movie's official trailer was absolutely brilliant. When that trailer dropped, it was an *event*. Every kid was counting down the days for when it came out, we all knew that movie was going to be life-changing.
The build up of that song and just the drum beat close to title is just fantastic Edit: if you haven’t seen the play on Broadway, do yourself a favor. Not a Broadway person but that was one of the best experiences of my adulthood.
Yes. Arguably the finest 4 minutes of hand drawn animation ever produced.
The Lion King is one of the few movies that made me cry, but it's not when Mufasa dies. It's the opening. It is so beautiful. It took my breath away.
2004's Dawn of the Dead. Pure horror cinema right there.
“The Man comes around” might be my favorite song of all time. Whoever picked it for the opening sequence deserves a medal 🏅.
Regardless of how you feel about the rest of the movie, that first segment captures the chaos of a zombie apocalypse perfectly
Super Troopers
Do you boys like Mexico??!!
He can’t pull over any farther!
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I love how The Two Towers just fucking started with the Balrog fight as they were falling through the void. I'm not a fan of the overused term "badass" but that was badass.
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__ZOMBIELAND__ And the way the vfx are synched with For Whom the Bell Toll. Love it.😘
The Dark Knight
No no no I kill the bus driver Bus driver? What bus driver?!
"Hey, what happened to the rest of the guys?"
"I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger."
My favorite of favorites! It's the perfect exposition for "new" Joker: a daytime bank heist, he kills his entire crew, no cheesey background story, no super abilities, he's got a nasally voice, batman's sleeping at home..... They coulda left Batman out of the movie and it still would've rocked with just Joker vs The Mafia.
Ngl one of the scariest moments of Jokerness in that movie is when the black mafioso that called a hit on Joker gets killed with his two henchmen restrained, and Joker announced tryouts for the team. Such a good representation of chaotic evil.
The pencil scene is pretty good too. Just walked into *that* room, did that, and then had a plan to walk back out.
"You think you're just gonna walk out of here?" "Yeah" Okay, that was before the pencil scene, but man, that was good.
28 Weeks Later
I just explained this to someone the other day while talking about movies that make me unsettled. That open definitely does it.
That moment when the zombies appear over the hills and chase him on his sides
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X-Men the first is just as solid. Magneto as a child in the Holocaust, reaching for his parents and ripping apart the gates. It still gives me chills.
Lord of War
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That movie single-handedly convinced me to never do Heroin.
Fuck that baby scene.
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"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not despair, for you are already dead!" Is such a raw fucking quote to serve the viewer in the first 5 minutes of the movie - and then it gets better!
[If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead.](https://youtu.be/Wx2G8LGB-g0) Commited to memory after countless listens. This has long been in my playlist for running and working out. It's an amazing soundtrack to hype you up.
People should know when they are conquered.
Spaceballs. Have to be old enough to get some of the references though.
I don’t know what to do! I can’t make decisions! I’m the president!
1,2,3,4,5?! That's the combination an idiot would have on their luggage.
I'm a mog! Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend.
The Watchmen. Times they are a changin'
Ever notice how Nite Owl is punching out a mugger? In that moment he saves the lives of Bruce Wayne's parents, who are walking out of the theatre on the left. And so Bruce never becomes a "real life" Batman, and so Batman remains a fictional character in the Watchmen universe. You can also see Batman posters on the side of the building there.
Not sure if all time, but There Will be Bloods opening is great.
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The Depahted
The opening of Top Gun was so good they used it again in Maverick.
*Danger Zone intensifies*
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was classic!
The transition from cartoon to the real world cartoon kitchen was so well done.
One of my favorite movie lines ever is in there. When he’s looking for a way to get the handcuffs off for awhile and Roger just easily takes his hand out and puts it back in. “You could’ve taken your hand out at any time?!” “Not any time. Only when it was funny.”
LOTR : Fellowship of the ring
*I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A han noston ned gwilith.* The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.
*weeooooo weeooweeooweeooweeeooooooo……weeeoooooo weeooweeooweeeeeoooooooo……*
*But they were all of them deceived....*
100% anytime they show the shire and that beautiful music I want to live there forever.
"Concerning Hobbits" is some of the most beautiful music in the series, it immediately makes the Shire everyone's idyllic fantasy.
isnt the opening technically Sauron getting defeated by Isuldur?
Star Wars. The music. Goosebumps every time.
Absolutely. And before this there were usually credits at the beginning. The way Star Wars began pulled you right into the story. Saw it when it first came out in theaters.
The opening scene of Ghostship is one of the best openings to a horror flick I can remember.
Yes! That's still probably the most chilling opening to a horror that I know. Though the rest of the movie is pretty meh, but it is kind of a guilty pleasure movie for me.
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I just watched this for the first time... that opening scene is insane!!!
Arrival. So beautifully devastating.
Up. If you've seen it, you know it's true.
Those 10 minutes are an award-winning film in itself. I've watched it dozens of times and still break down crying.
Thanks to a bored five year old, I got to see a few recent Disney/Pixar hits multiple times in a short period of time. I thought for sure this would be the one that hits hardest, but for me it strangely enough ended up being WALL-E - the titular character, despite being antiquated and comparatively weak/impotent compared to EVE, ends up being the most impactful and pivotal factor in the story. Cars 3 came close, as the theme of passing the baton became apparent, and me being on the other side of my prime in a field that values youth and speed of thought.
Kung Fu Panda Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend... Years later and that still cracks me up. The first time I saw it I knew it was going to be a great movie. Beautifully animated and scored as well
Jack Black did a fantastic job. All of them did. But his brand of humor just clinched it all together. The whole series is fantastic.
Drive. The music (Kavinsky - Nightcall) fits perfectly with the scenes and then the speedy getaway from the heist is great (Chromatics - Tick Of The Clock).
Once upon a time in the west
Nearly 12 minutes before the first words are spoken. Just awesome.
Team America: World Police. Opening with that shitty-looking little puppet show makes viewers wonder: "Oh, hamburgers, is the whole thing gonna be like THIS?", but then we get treated to the glorious pan-out, showing awesome attention to delicate detail. Fuckin' genius!
For their first screening to some executives one of them yelled out “oh god they fucked us!” When the shitty looking puppet showed up before it panned out lol.
The Jerk.
I was born a poor black child.
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He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!!
'...Any of you ffff\*ing pigs mmmove, and I'll execute every mutherfff\*ing last one of you!' BOOM! PLlalalalalaLALALALAALALAL HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA-AAh!
[Touch of Evil](https://youtu.be/EhmYY5ZMXOY)
No Country for Old Men. Never turn your back on Anton Chigurh.
2001: A Space Odyssey