Best Movie Opening Sequence...

Good calls on Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Repo Man, Rear Window, Saving Private Ryan...
(I've never seen that first Rear Window one before)

Has anyone posted this one yet? Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.
The bomb is set for 3 1/2 minutes, then the whole sequence is filmed in real time in one continuous shot without a cut until the explosion 3 1/2 minutes later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8MqjoFvy4
 
sexy beast is good

i like the start of
"Walk The Line"

is that really cash's intro off the original album - it sounRAB like it.

i like the start of
"This is England"
really sets the scene
 
1. raiders of the lost ark

the entire opening scene when Indy is trying to get the Idol is deliberately designed to feel like it is the climax of a previous unseen episode, laying out the idea that this is a homage to the old serial adventures. the bits with the closing door, rolling boulder and being pursued down to the plane by the angry natives are just genius.

2. Terminator 2 - how can anybody not love that future war scene?

3. The Matrix - trinity fleeing across the rooftops - wow!

4. 2001 - A space Odyssey - nuff said
 
Final Destination 2.

One minute everyone is driving along safely........then the next minute, a log goes through a guy's head, a bunch of people explode in their vehicles and then it's revealed that it's actually a DREAM and that the real horror has only just begun. :eek:
 
Jaws for me. I re member sitting with my legs up on the couch scared to put them on the floor as a kiddie incase he came for them! lol still scares me, especially now I know the girl was tied to two speedboats which were supposed to pull one way and then the other, they pulled in opposite directions and broke her ribs. Spielberg kept the real screams in.

No wonder it seemed so authentic!
 
Definately 2001 space Odyssey in my opinion. Some say Star Wars changed cinema forever, but Kubrick got there first with his fabulous shots of the star ships travelling with the grace of waltz dancers.

One think that annoys me when some people talk about 2001 Space Odyssey. They call it pretentious, but never quite explain how it is pretentious. How can a film which took cinema to new heights which had never been seen before be called pretentious?
 
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