Favorite Opening Scenes?

-Swordfish- has a great opening scenes, "You know what's the problem with Hollywood? They make sh*t"

But -Face/Off- *bows down to Woo*
 
I totally agree with you and _andie_ - this is an incredible opening scene. I can't believe I left it off my list! But then, there really are so many.

It's just dead on, and sets the tone for the rest of the movie (which is also fabulous).
 
I agree, I think I'm the only one in my family who actually enjoys this movie.

Scary Movie 2 - The Exorcist theme was the best.
Swordfish - the explosion
Underworld - the jump scene
uh I can't think of another one right now.
 
These opening scenes were my favorite:

1. Spiderman 1

2. Spiderman 2

3. Daredevil

They were all just very unique and.... well, cool! :D
 
This is a great topic so I don't want to see it gone :)

Anyway, from the movies I've seen recently I'd have to say 28 Days Later has a pretty good, attention grabbing first scene.
 
Love Actually's opening. Its message is really important and thoughtful, and I just love it!!
 
Definitely Lord of the Rings, which set up the whole plot beautifully, and Scream, which also set the tone for the entire series.
 
I loved that opening scene as well!!
It was really clever and it shows the kind of marriage they have with eachother..

Also like

Scream Scared me witless the first time I saw it, and still does now..

Bridget Jones's diary Bridget sitting on the couch, singing along to "All by myself" Priceless!!

Pulp Fiction Love the tune and the dialogue that comes after it..

Grease I watch the opening cartoon sequence all the time, I love the Beegees!!

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Opening scenes of.....

Se7en: The music and the weird way the credits pop up over the top of the razor blades and all the weird scripture. You dont find out til later what all that means.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The way the parents are looking down on Ferris and that they're all worried, and the look on Matthew Broderick's face as he fakes his illness.

A Bug's Life : (Strange, I know, but bear with me) All that lush, beautiful scenery of leaves that are magnified to like 1000%. It just looks so real.

Insomnia: Like Se7en, the opening scene has disturbing images that refer to something that will happen later in the movie.
 
The opening sequence of Romeo + Juliet is fan freaking tastic

my fav opening ever!
 
X2, opening was amazing. Very well done and alot of action. :)

Scream, nobody expected to see such a big star like Drew Barrymore's character killed off so soon in the movie. Very big time right there. :D
 
American Pie 2

Jim and a ramdom girl trying to get it on, and then his dad walks in..... LOL too funny, set the tone for the whole movie
 
oooooooooh!! too many!!

1. the matrix reloaded - with trinity blowing up the power station/ falling out the window

2. swordfish- with the whole bomb thing

3. oh yeh! red dragon! that was amazing- the stabbing thing

and.....ill come back when i remember, lol
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The Sum of All Fears - The fact that it presents you with the idea that the seven day Iran/Iraq war could have been ended with the Isralis dropping a nuclear bomb on the region is VERY fightening -- and thought provoking -- given the times we live in and how everything that's happened in that region and the rest of the world was formed by those events that really took place and what would might have been had this really occured (there is no proof we gave Israel a bomb to drop, but it IS possible knowing our goverment...).

Courage Under Fire - Great tank battle open that shows you how confusing war can get and even has a friendly fire incident... Something people don't really like to acknowledge happen in war.

Flash Dance - Very simple scrolling of the title in giant letters with an instrumental version of Irene Cara's "What a Feeling" played over it as it slowly fades into Baltimore and Alex riding to work on her bike in the early morning.

Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man - Has Mickey rourke riding from Texas to California on a Harley as Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" plays over the credits and a montage of road images.

Pearl Harbor - Great, subtle open with the bi-plane flying over Tennessee with calming music that represents America's innocence and that is embodied in Rafe and Danny playing war in an defucnt plane fuselage.

It's even more piognot since "Pearl Harbor" came out the summer before 9-11.

Bad Boys - Will Smith and Martin Lawrence driving to work and they get (almost) car jacked. Great way to introduce the characters and what they do for a living (cops).

St. Elmo's Fire - The brat pack in their graduation caps and gowns walking toward the camera with David Foster's very famous "St. Elmo's Fire Love Theme" playing
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That's all I can think of right now...
 
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