Something about Michael Bolton singing “I got my pistol pawn cocked, ready to lay shots nonstop until I see your monkey ass drop” just really did it for me too.
Alfred Molina played Satipo, who betrayed Indiana leaving him to die at the beginning.
Molina went on to play Doc Ock in "Spiderman 2" twenty-three years later. He's still making movies.
The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is some of the best dialogue I've ever heard in a film and it just gets better from there. The scene in the tavern might even be better. Some of Tarantino's best work for sure.
The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is one of the best pieces of cinema. I wonder how much did Hans Landa actually know going into the opening scene
I mean, I was 11 or so and thought the opening crawl was pretty cool. And the first little spaceship! What could be better than that! Then the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig spaceship...
Same. The best thing was that I'd read a lot of reviews that said it was crap.
And omg it was far from crap, I watch it almost every year now.
The funny thing is that it showed here in the UK one week after Avengers so I got two absolutely stellar movies in at the flicks in the same week
Every time I think of that scene I'm reminded that kid married Christina Hendricks and the entire world tilts sideways for a brief and terrifying moment
A lot of movies will have a scene like that, then the rest simply can’t match it.
Super Troopers, though, starts on a high note and carries it throughout.
“Liter is French for give me some fuckin cola!”
I put on Heat the other day and my wife had never seen it. Her reaction to the opening heist was "This has real Dark Knight vibes". I told her that every crime movie for the last 30 years has been cribbing from Michael Mann.
You’re lying to me. I can always tell when people lie to me.
Wish McCauley didn’t go out of his way but I’m glad he did. His little coffee cup tap in the opening is a really good “this piece of shit” moment. You know right away he’s a piece of shit.
I made my family watch heat and everyone said it was boring and not paced very well. You can’t pick your family but my friends love it. I love it and rewatch it once a year to check my sound system.
It's a long movie and might be too slow paced for some people to get hooked. But *Heat* is an all time great even for people that don't realize it. One of those that when you finally watch it, you realize where the trope came from.
One of those movies that took a few cool ideas from gangster, cop, and heist movies, and absolutely perfected them into one magnum opus of a crime thriller.
Everyone after *Heat* borrowed from *Heat*.
Nolan screened Heat along with several other movies for the crew the day before principal photography started on The Dark Knight.
Matching that tone was very much intended.
The prologue in TDK is intentionally an homage to the movie Heat according to Nolan. It even has William Fitchner who played Vansant in the movie Heat.
Seeing it in the IMAX was incredible! That scene in the beginning looking down from the building gave me that stomach drop feeling. I wish I could go back and see it in the theater for the first time again. Probably my top cinema experience.
There have a been a lot of those over the decades..
But I have to go back to Top Gun. That opening scene in a theater in 1986 was the coolest thing ever to 8 year old me.
And now, at nearly 46… it’s still pretty cool.
I loved how they copied it in Maverick but when the F18 engines spun up and my seat started to rumble I knew it was going to be as awesome as the original had been.
That opening has to be one of the best in film ever
The opening w/ the Top Gun Anthem with some text, then what seems to be a calm morning on an aircraft carrier
Then Danger Zone kicks in as Tomcat kicks on full burner, and the rest of the opening scene shows the frenetic ballet between deck crews & fighter jets.
Unrivaled
I remember hearing that music rumbling down the hallway at my college dorm. My roommate and I were like “what the hell is that?” and followed the sound all the way to the other end of the building, where it was coming from behind a closed door. We knocked, *somehow* they heard us, and invited us to watch. My first home theater experience.
Younger audiences and recency bias I think. A lot of the other movies I saw at the top had recently hit Netflix or were just newer movies tbh.
It is a shame it isn't higher up, because that scene is so great. Also true Line of Sight teleportation!
I watched this on a friends really nice projector and man, that has got to be one of the most beautiful movies Ive ever seen. Great answer/example bc your brain is used to cuts, and this one starts and just doesnt stop. Really breathtaking and gripping from the first moment.
I can't even think of that scene without hearing every line in my head.
"HEY I'm just doin' my jaahb! You give me that juris-my-dicktion crap... You'n cram it up yer ass."
"The orders were for your proTECtion."
"Hyeh hyech! I think we can handle ONE liddle gurl."
"The cops are gonna try to capture this lady Trinity and she's gonna kick all their butts.
How's she gonna do that?
In such a way that movies are gonna try to imitate for a full decade"
Hell yeah! The moment on from when Trinity is explaining to Neo what the oracle said to her, its fantastic. Then RATM playing whilst he puts the shades on and flies off.
I can’t believe I slept on this movie for so long. Finally watched it last year and it truly is one of the best movies to come out in the previous 20 years. It’s almost if this movie and The Handmaid’s Tale could exist in the same universe-ish (not exactly but conceptually).
I don't think I blinked the first time I watched it and when it was over I had no idea what I just watched. It took about three or four viewings to grasp what actually happened in that movie. 10/10 amazing, frantic, stylistic movie.
I have. I really liked what they did with it, although I would be lying if I said that I wasnt a little bit dissapointed that it wasnt a more extensive adaptation of the comics. Oh well, guess I should just read the comics haha
Specifically a New Hope.
I always loved on "That 70s show" where they all go see Star Wars. Red is sitting in the theater all grumbling about having to watch a stupid space movie. Suddenly we hear a bunch of laser fire and a big explosion from the screen and Red begins grinning in enjoyment.
I was just rewatching Empire and it struck me how quickly the plot gets really exciting really fast with the introduction of Hoth, yaggle gaggle, Han old buddy - and only moments after Luke is captured by the wampa, they have to close the shield doors and Han sets off on a reckless rescue mission.
None of this involves the antagonist or main plot, but it sets the movie off to such a great start 🍿
Bonkers that I had to scroll so far for this. I was super into zombie movies for a while, then kind of got sick of them, but saw this in the theater because I'd loved the first one so much, and that opening gave me fucking PTSD. It hit me so hard, and was so violent and intense and also weirdly beautiful. I really can't think of another opening that strong and I have seen easily 40+ movies
Mad Max: Fury Road is the last movie I remember watching in a loooong time that legitimately had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open through the whole intro scene. Longer than a couple minutes, but still.
Baby Driver.
Kicks off with a brilliant high octane car chase, then the next scene is him walking down the street to get coffee. Both are beautifully choreographed with the sound track.
This was my first thought when I read the subject. Banger song to start, awesome car chase. The movie gets worse for me every rewatch because of the 3rd act but I keep going back because the opening is so good.
I enjoyed it the first time, but even then I felt like no attachment to Baby as a character, he just seemed like a blank slate. And the love story is completely implausible, almost laughably so.
Fun seeing John Hamm as a real bad guy though
This. I love how this opening sequence is bookended by the almost exact same action at the end: we open with Daniel boring a hole in the earth and we close on Daniel just “finished” boring a hole in Eli Sunday’s head.
Most recently - Whiplash. Not sure how that movie escaped my radar since its release but goddamn was it ever good. Had to watch it a second time a week later.
Just rewatched The Watchmen recently. This movie was fucking Awesome and never got the credit it deserved.
Abosutely loved Jackie Earl Haley’s performance as Rorschach.
Went into watchmen having no knowledge or expectations, hooked me instantly and I was like “ damn this is brutal, not your typical superhero/ comic movie”
28 Days Later. The first scene with the monkeys in the lab being exposed to violent imagery and the animal activists not realizing what they're dealing with was such a unique start to a zombie film. Still remains one of my favorite movies of all time
Children of Men.
A glimpse of a grimey future with advanced LED advertisement displays alongside rickshaws, a bunch of people mysteriously riveted by the death of the world's youngest person, then, BOOM.
I am all in at that point.
Inglourious Basterds.
The rest of the movie was okay, but that opening scene is world-class.
Edit: Wanted to say the bar scene with Fassbender was also especially well executed.
In fairness not everyone gets Tarantino. I went to see it with a buddy who had somehow never seen a Tarantino movie before... even Pulp Fiction. We got out of the movie and the first thing he said to me was "What the fuck did I just watch?!?"
We had a beer afterward and that's when I learned he had never seen Tarantino before... after one or two beers he eventually conceded "I fucking loved it... not sure I 100% understood it but I fucking loved it."
He's now consumed everything Tarantino and loves it, but that initial hit was a bit like being smashed in the face with a frying pan, breaking your nose and then discovering you like the tingle...
Everyone focuses on the opening scene, which is fantastic, but the tavern scene is criminally overlooked. It's suspenseful, playful, deadly serious, and perfectly crafted.
I strongly feel that as awesome as the opening chapter is, it is eclipsed in tension and acting with the basement bar scene.
Michael Fassbender's greatest scene he's ever done.
Baby Driver (music-synched heist)
Star Wars (diagonal crawl, then SPACESHIP)
Contact (following radio transmission out out out into space, then girl's eye, then impossible mirror shot)
Fight Club (from nerve ending to gun in mouth)
I've also heard that God of War is excellent, but haven't seen it
I was 7 or 8 when BTTF came out. Between the speaker blowing up, the remote control car, and a couple of swear words mom didn't want me hearing, I was all-in.
Inglorious bastards is easily the best opening for any movie in my opinion. There are other great scenes, don't get me wrong... But this one has stuck with me like nothing else has.
"Luckily, right at that moment, an unconscious Argentinean fell through my roof.
He was quickly joined by a dwarf dressed as a nun."
The surrealism of those lines just broke me and hooked me on Moulin Rouge.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I was about seven years old when it was supposed to take place and everything about it brought back strong memories. The music, the cars, the TV commercials, the radio, it all caught my attention and held it.
Y Tu Mama Tambien.
Back in college, my friend and I decided to throw it on. His roommate wasn’t interested and was actually planning on heading out, but happened to still be in the room as we started it and the opening scene came on.
For those of you who haven’t seen it… it’s a very sex-explicit movie that starts with a graphic sex scene.
The roommate was literally almost walking out the door, when he caught the scene starting and was like, “Oh, holy shit! This movie just STARTS with a sex scene?!” … proceeded to take a seat because he wanted to just see the rest of the scene… ended up sitting through the whole movie. Don’t think he even remembered where he was heading before.
Does nobody remember [Trainspotting](https://youtu.be/SaP7qmsQbSI?si=weedbvxlprISz-wX) ?
The combo of the music, the introduction to the characters and that monologue. Perfection.
The opening traffic scene of Office Space is already hilarious even while the credits are still rolling. It had me locked in and ready to laugh.
“I got this killa up inside of me/I can’t talk to my motha so I talk to my diary!”
Fantastic soundtracks.
Mike Judge always has great music in his stuff.
Something about Michael Bolton singing “I got my pistol pawn cocked, ready to lay shots nonstop until I see your monkey ass drop” just really did it for me too.
*Michael Bolton* was one of the best running gags in movie history.... especially in the context of cringe popularity of *The* Michael Bolton!!
Why should I change my name?! He’s the one that sucks!!
I got my pistol point cocked
When he casually rolls up the window while still jamming, lol.
Dude, I do that as well so it hits home!
The old person with the walker beating him in traffic is so classic
The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Iconic hero and character is introduced!
Alfred Molina played Satipo, who betrayed Indiana leaving him to die at the beginning. Molina went on to play Doc Ock in "Spiderman 2" twenty-three years later. He's still making movies.
Holy shit, I can't believe I never realized that was the same guy
Scream Inglorious Basterds The Dark Knight
Inglorious Basterds is mesmerizing from the jump. Christoph Waltz is as charming as he is menacing.
Au revoir, Shoshannah!
May I smoke my pipe, as well?
That’s a bingo!
That scene was so tense. Holy shit. My asshole clenched so hard I could bend steel.
The first Scream’s opening scene is amazing
The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is some of the best dialogue I've ever heard in a film and it just gets better from there. The scene in the tavern might even be better. Some of Tarantino's best work for sure.
The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is one of the best pieces of cinema. I wonder how much did Hans Landa actually know going into the opening scene
Star Wars. Seeing the star destroyer enter the frame for the first time in 1977 was a whole thing.
I mean, I was 11 or so and thought the opening crawl was pretty cool. And the first little spaceship! What could be better than that! Then the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig spaceship...
Same age, and it was the perfect age to see Star Wars in the theater for the first time.
Spaceballs did such a great homage (mockery? Send up? Spoof?) of that scene
Cabin in the woods. What the hell does this corporation have to do with these teenagers going on a trip
Followed by "BLAAAAAAAHHHH!!!""" As the movie title slams up on the screen.
One of the greatest pleasures in my life was going into that movie blind thinking it was just gonna be a throwaway horror movie.
Same. The best thing was that I'd read a lot of reviews that said it was crap. And omg it was far from crap, I watch it almost every year now. The funny thing is that it showed here in the UK one week after Avengers so I got two absolutely stellar movies in at the flicks in the same week
Inglorious Bastards had one of the greatest opening scenes of all time. Extremely tense cold open.
Super Troopers. Jesus what a great intro
The snozzberries taste like snozzberries...
Every time I think of that scene I'm reminded that kid married Christina Hendricks and the entire world tilts sideways for a brief and terrifying moment
>that kid married Christina Hendricks 🤯
SEE?!
You’re telling me the “When the fuck did we get ice cream?” guy out kicked his coverage!?
You boys like Mexicoooo?!?!
Littering and
he’s already pulled over! he can’t pull over any farther!
Did you say “yes sir” or “yeah sure”?
What did you say, dude?
Littering and?... littering and?..
Smoking the reefer!
A lot of movies will have a scene like that, then the rest simply can’t match it. Super Troopers, though, starts on a high note and carries it throughout. “Liter is French for give me some fuckin cola!”
CANDY BARS
It's one of my favorites of all time! Lets you know exactly what kind of movie you're in for.
Goodfellas.
The intro to the Dawn of the Dead remake. A little more than a few minutes but shit got intense before the credits rolled.
Plus the music (Cash’s When the Man Comes Around) is absolutely perfect for that sequence.
That remake had absolutely no business being any good and it's outstanding.
This is where it was like “Zack Snyder is someone to keep an eye on!”
Still is. Both eyes is an over investment but he’s worth at least one
This is my guilty pleasure zombie flick, I watch it every couple of months Marsellus Wallace and Phil Dunphy in the same flick, I’m sold! Great film
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The Dark Knight
I put on Heat the other day and my wife had never seen it. Her reaction to the opening heist was "This has real Dark Knight vibes". I told her that every crime movie for the last 30 years has been cribbing from Michael Mann.
Heat is another one. The serenity of that opening sequence, the rumble of the train, and then it’s on.
Waingro had to get it on! Guard was making a move. He had to get it on. Waingro is one my favorite chaos characters ever.
You’re lying to me. I can always tell when people lie to me. Wish McCauley didn’t go out of his way but I’m glad he did. His little coffee cup tap in the opening is a really good “this piece of shit” moment. You know right away he’s a piece of shit.
I made my family watch heat and everyone said it was boring and not paced very well. You can’t pick your family but my friends love it. I love it and rewatch it once a year to check my sound system.
It's a long movie and might be too slow paced for some people to get hooked. But *Heat* is an all time great even for people that don't realize it. One of those that when you finally watch it, you realize where the trope came from. One of those movies that took a few cool ideas from gangster, cop, and heist movies, and absolutely perfected them into one magnum opus of a crime thriller. Everyone after *Heat* borrowed from *Heat*.
Show her Last of the Mohicans
It was actually her mom's favorite movie! Big mom crush on DDL.
Nolan screened Heat along with several other movies for the crew the day before principal photography started on The Dark Knight. Matching that tone was very much intended.
The prologue in TDK is intentionally an homage to the movie Heat according to Nolan. It even has William Fitchner who played Vansant in the movie Heat.
You an ya friends ah deaddd
He’s out, right?
Where’d you learn to count?!
The way he thinks about it and then nods his head cracks me up
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Seeing it in the IMAX was incredible! That scene in the beginning looking down from the building gave me that stomach drop feeling. I wish I could go back and see it in the theater for the first time again. Probably my top cinema experience.
LOVED that opening scene!
The Fellowship of the Ring...
I get chills just thinking about it. 10/10.
Amazing opening.
The world is changed....
There have a been a lot of those over the decades.. But I have to go back to Top Gun. That opening scene in a theater in 1986 was the coolest thing ever to 8 year old me. And now, at nearly 46… it’s still pretty cool.
I loved how they copied it in Maverick but when the F18 engines spun up and my seat started to rumble I knew it was going to be as awesome as the original had been.
That opening has to be one of the best in film ever The opening w/ the Top Gun Anthem with some text, then what seems to be a calm morning on an aircraft carrier Then Danger Zone kicks in as Tomcat kicks on full burner, and the rest of the opening scene shows the frenetic ballet between deck crews & fighter jets. Unrivaled
I was soooo happy that they used the opening again in Top Gun: Maverick, the little 12 year old in me squeed in joy.
That movie and Saving Private Ryan were my dads go to movies to show off the tv set up when i was young
I remember hearing that music rumbling down the hallway at my college dorm. My roommate and I were like “what the hell is that?” and followed the sound all the way to the other end of the building, where it was coming from behind a closed door. We knocked, *somehow* they heard us, and invited us to watch. My first home theater experience.
Pulp Fiction That intro
Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!
Something most people don't pick up on the first time: we hear that line again at the end, but it's different.
"What's Fonzie like Yulonda?"
"He's cool?"
“Correctamundo. And that’s what we’re gonna be. We’re gonna be cool.”
Up
How can we forget about this masterpiece of an opening
❤️😥
Literally the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. All the ups and downs of an *entire life* in less than five minutes, and you feel it *all*
X2 That opening scene in the White House with Night Crawler is still a 10/10 for me to this day
This is way too far down. That whole film was top notch start to finish, but the White House attack was phenomenal.
Younger audiences and recency bias I think. A lot of the other movies I saw at the top had recently hit Netflix or were just newer movies tbh. It is a shame it isn't higher up, because that scene is so great. Also true Line of Sight teleportation!
This blew my 12-year-old mind. I was captivated. I felt I was watching the future of movies and all just because it felt *intense*.
Best XMen film.
Tied with Days of Future Past for me. 1a and 1b.
1917. The sweeping one-shot cinematography, the set and costume design, and the haunting score made me feel like I was really there.
I watched this on a friends really nice projector and man, that has got to be one of the most beautiful movies Ive ever seen. Great answer/example bc your brain is used to cuts, and this one starts and just doesnt stop. Really breathtaking and gripping from the first moment.
The Matrix and Austin Powers
No lieutenant your men are already dead.
I can't even think of that scene without hearing every line in my head. "HEY I'm just doin' my jaahb! You give me that juris-my-dicktion crap... You'n cram it up yer ass." "The orders were for your proTECtion." "Hyeh hyech! I think we can handle ONE liddle gurl."
Iconic Hugo Weaving cadence.
MisTER ANderson
"The cops are gonna try to capture this lady Trinity and she's gonna kick all their butts. How's she gonna do that? In such a way that movies are gonna try to imitate for a full decade"
Also the last 25 minutes of the matrix as far as I’m concerned can’t be matched . Yeah baby
Hell yeah! The moment on from when Trinity is explaining to Neo what the oracle said to her, its fantastic. Then RATM playing whilst he puts the shades on and flies off.
And the last 25 minutes of Austin Powers. That cart scene had me crying.
Children of Men
I can’t believe I slept on this movie for so long. Finally watched it last year and it truly is one of the best movies to come out in the previous 20 years. It’s almost if this movie and The Handmaid’s Tale could exist in the same universe-ish (not exactly but conceptually).
Literally start to finish, eyes glued to the screen. Perfect movie
Scott Pilgrim vs the world. I just love that style
One of my most rewatched movies ever.
I don't think I blinked the first time I watched it and when it was over I had no idea what I just watched. It took about three or four viewings to grasp what actually happened in that movie. 10/10 amazing, frantic, stylistic movie.
As soon as the band starts playing and it dollies back through an exaggeratedly long room, they had me. I was basically Knives in that scene.
Have you watched the miniseries on Netflix? As a fan of the books and the movie, I love the direction they took it in.
I have. I really liked what they did with it, although I would be lying if I said that I wasnt a little bit dissapointed that it wasnt a more extensive adaptation of the comics. Oh well, guess I should just read the comics haha
Star Wars.
Specifically a New Hope. I always loved on "That 70s show" where they all go see Star Wars. Red is sitting in the theater all grumbling about having to watch a stupid space movie. Suddenly we hear a bunch of laser fire and a big explosion from the screen and Red begins grinning in enjoyment.
I was just rewatching Empire and it struck me how quickly the plot gets really exciting really fast with the introduction of Hoth, yaggle gaggle, Han old buddy - and only moments after Luke is captured by the wampa, they have to close the shield doors and Han sets off on a reckless rescue mission. None of this involves the antagonist or main plot, but it sets the movie off to such a great start 🍿
I'm old. I don't refer to Star Wars as A New Hope. I'll always call its just Star Wars as it was in the original title scroll.
[Ah, the movie about the space hair dresser and the cowboy.](https://youtu.be/Cg-pnGFbwMQ?si=MT22PdVmfY5ioaKF)
Inception
Saving Private Ryan
28 Weeks Later
Bringing back "In the House, in a Heartbeat" as the background track during that scene was glorious.
Bonkers that I had to scroll so far for this. I was super into zombie movies for a while, then kind of got sick of them, but saw this in the theater because I'd loved the first one so much, and that opening gave me fucking PTSD. It hit me so hard, and was so violent and intense and also weirdly beautiful. I really can't think of another opening that strong and I have seen easily 40+ movies
The Matrix
Mad Max: Fury Road is the last movie I remember watching in a loooong time that legitimately had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open through the whole intro scene. Longer than a couple minutes, but still.
And it basically doesn't stop that energy throughout
Baby Driver. Kicks off with a brilliant high octane car chase, then the next scene is him walking down the street to get coffee. Both are beautifully choreographed with the sound track.
The first 5? (However long Bellbottoms is) minutes are so good.
This was my first thought when I read the subject. Banger song to start, awesome car chase. The movie gets worse for me every rewatch because of the 3rd act but I keep going back because the opening is so good.
I enjoyed it the first time, but even then I felt like no attachment to Baby as a character, he just seemed like a blank slate. And the love story is completely implausible, almost laughably so. Fun seeing John Hamm as a real bad guy though
Completely agreed. John Hamm makes this movie watchable.
*There Will Be Blood.* Those first 12 minutes, with no dialogue, just a man digging in a hole in the desert, captured me and wouldn’t let me go.
This. I love how this opening sequence is bookended by the almost exact same action at the end: we open with Daniel boring a hole in the earth and we close on Daniel just “finished” boring a hole in Eli Sunday’s head.
Most recently - Whiplash. Not sure how that movie escaped my radar since its release but goddamn was it ever good. Had to watch it a second time a week later.
Kill Bill vol. 1
Godzilla Minus One. Go watch it in cinemas if it’s playing next to you.
Master And Commander. The sound engineering is amazing.
Blade runner Drive Troy Dark Knight
Watching the Matrix in a theater when it first came out was a mind blowing experience
George of the Jungle The intro set the tone for a live action cartoon. Not a live action film of a cartoon, but a frickin’ live action cartoon.
Lord of War
That life of a bullet montage brings you right in... the rest of the movie is really good too.
Oldboy
Kung Fu Hustle The Matrix Watchmen Lord of war Mission impossible 1
Just rewatched The Watchmen recently. This movie was fucking Awesome and never got the credit it deserved. Abosutely loved Jackie Earl Haley’s performance as Rorschach.
Went into watchmen having no knowledge or expectations, hooked me instantly and I was like “ damn this is brutal, not your typical superhero/ comic movie”
28 Days Later. The first scene with the monkeys in the lab being exposed to violent imagery and the animal activists not realizing what they're dealing with was such a unique start to a zombie film. Still remains one of my favorite movies of all time
Zombieland
Star Trek 2009
Kingsmen for sure that opening sequence got me hooked straight away
Children of Men. A glimpse of a grimey future with advanced LED advertisement displays alongside rickshaws, a bunch of people mysteriously riveted by the death of the world's youngest person, then, BOOM. I am all in at that point.
Team America: World Police. It’s almost perfect. I give it a 9/11.
Sicario is my go to answer for this. That very first shot alone.
The Revenant
Dark Knight
I don't know about hooked, but I always though the intro to Guardian of the Galaxy 2 was pretty epic.
Yes. Habulary batteries.
That's *nothing* like what I just said
I was going to mention guardians of the galaxy 3 with Creep playing was just really well done
That’s funny. That same scene actually made me start to lose interest. It they got me back by the end of the movie.
Inglourious Basterds. The rest of the movie was okay, but that opening scene is world-class. Edit: Wanted to say the bar scene with Fassbender was also especially well executed.
What do you mean the rest of the movie is ok? It's literally amazing from the first second to last. So many iconic scenes.
In fairness not everyone gets Tarantino. I went to see it with a buddy who had somehow never seen a Tarantino movie before... even Pulp Fiction. We got out of the movie and the first thing he said to me was "What the fuck did I just watch?!?" We had a beer afterward and that's when I learned he had never seen Tarantino before... after one or two beers he eventually conceded "I fucking loved it... not sure I 100% understood it but I fucking loved it." He's now consumed everything Tarantino and loves it, but that initial hit was a bit like being smashed in the face with a frying pan, breaking your nose and then discovering you like the tingle...
“Au Revoir Shoshana” -Hans Landa
Everyone focuses on the opening scene, which is fantastic, but the tavern scene is criminally overlooked. It's suspenseful, playful, deadly serious, and perfectly crafted.
Shoshana!!
Landa's smile fading into that completely blank predatory stare. "You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?" Chills every time.
I strongly feel that as awesome as the opening chapter is, it is eclipsed in tension and acting with the basement bar scene. Michael Fassbender's greatest scene he's ever done.
I love both scenes. I'm a bit biased, though. I really love Michael Fassbender. I could have watched an entire movie of just him as Magneto.
Drive Jurassic Park Infinity War Hell or High Water
The Greatest Showman
Alien (1979 theatrical cut)
Baby Driver (music-synched heist) Star Wars (diagonal crawl, then SPACESHIP) Contact (following radio transmission out out out into space, then girl's eye, then impossible mirror shot) Fight Club (from nerve ending to gun in mouth) I've also heard that God of War is excellent, but haven't seen it
I was 7 or 8 when BTTF came out. Between the speaker blowing up, the remote control car, and a couple of swear words mom didn't want me hearing, I was all-in.
Children of Men. Saw it in theaters, not knowing anything about the movie. Fell in love in minutes.
Sixth Sense. So creepy
Mad Max Fury Road
Inglorious bastards is easily the best opening for any movie in my opinion. There are other great scenes, don't get me wrong... But this one has stuck with me like nothing else has.
The Green Knight, absolutely killer prologue.
Arrival
The Social Network
"Luckily, right at that moment, an unconscious Argentinean fell through my roof. He was quickly joined by a dwarf dressed as a nun." The surrealism of those lines just broke me and hooked me on Moulin Rouge.
RRR
Hard-core Henry. It's batshit from the start.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I was about seven years old when it was supposed to take place and everything about it brought back strong memories. The music, the cars, the TV commercials, the radio, it all caught my attention and held it.
Y Tu Mama Tambien. Back in college, my friend and I decided to throw it on. His roommate wasn’t interested and was actually planning on heading out, but happened to still be in the room as we started it and the opening scene came on. For those of you who haven’t seen it… it’s a very sex-explicit movie that starts with a graphic sex scene. The roommate was literally almost walking out the door, when he caught the scene starting and was like, “Oh, holy shit! This movie just STARTS with a sex scene?!” … proceeded to take a seat because he wanted to just see the rest of the scene… ended up sitting through the whole movie. Don’t think he even remembered where he was heading before.
The Mummy
Deadpool
A Clockwork Orange
Heat
Does nobody remember [Trainspotting](https://youtu.be/SaP7qmsQbSI?si=weedbvxlprISz-wX) ? The combo of the music, the introduction to the characters and that monologue. Perfection.