Favorite Opening Scenes?

the opening of Donnie Darko is awesome...haunting, beautifully shot and a great song thats just perfect

i also love the opening of Pride and Prejudice :sigh:

so beautiful and immediatley radiates the feelings of the story
 
Fight Club ... The path from the brain to the gun during the credits is amazing. And then, "With a gun barrel between you teeth you speak only in vowels." And that is virtual the final scene of the mvoie and it comes full circle in the end. I love it.

Another favorite of my is The Breakfast Club.
 
And according to the commentay, it was real
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It belonged to the guy playing Jijii.

And I have to say this- Tadanobu Asano is one of the most brilliant actors anywhere.
 
I loved the openings for both The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded. Very action-packed. The first one was especially good because you didn't know what was going on. I also loved the openings for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. I loved in Pulp Fiction how you've got this lovey-dovey couple suddenly get up screaming with guns in their hands. I loved in Kill Bill how messed up she looked and I loved the music. Quentin Tarantino has the best music in his movies.
 
My Best Friend's Wedding-The bride and her bridesmaids lip syncing to The Exciter's "Tell Him"
 
I love musical opening sequences, like in Bring it On, Moulin Rouge, and Chicago, they definately grabbed my attention.

The opening in Kill Bill Vol.I was great. It set the tone for the rest of the film. The ending was awesome too.
 
The Blade Series always had good openings, especially the first movie.

Shoot'em Up had a good opening scene as well.

London had an interesting one, if you're a fan of Jessica Biel you'll think :jaw_drop:
 
The beginning is very cool. The action itself starts with Frank in the prison, but I love the credit sequences. It's got that quirky John Williams jazzy score with the animation over the top of it. A cross between The Pink Panther titles and the old Saint TV show
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Really sets the tone for the movie.
 
Reviving the thread! :)

I really love the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is just so... odd and yet kick @ss! From the black screen that makes you anticipate what the film is all about to the apes to the bone to space. It's just brilliant. Our teacher also explained it maybe that is why I think it is cool.

I also like Rent, the characters all singing Season of Love on a stage.

The opening credits of Fight Club and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Korea) are very well thought about. It gets you in the mood of what you are getting in to. The music used for both opening credits were incredible.

In case you guys want to see - Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Battle Royale - another opening which gets you in the right mood of what you are about to see.

Memento - just the rewind effect makes it look so sleek and awesome :D
 
Austin Powers in Goldmember

Sometimes I just watch the beginning of the movie then change channels cause that part is SO hilarious
 
Austin Powers 3- OK, for me, it's like the first 10 minutes that I'd consider the opening scene, but it's hilarious!
 
my fav has to be Doonie Darko and i also have a soft spot for grease... when the music comes on and you see sandy and danny on the beach.
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Here's another good opener...

The Lost Boys--- Sweeping view of the lake and carnival. A menacing Kiefer at the merry-go-round. Vamp punks vs. human punks.
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The Twelve Chairs is a comedy by Mel Brooks, set in the Soviet Union in the 1920's. In the beginning, an old woman dies, taking with her the knowledge of where she hid some precious stones during the Russian Revolution. The rest of the movie is about several competing fortune hunters scrambling around Russia, trying to find them. The beginning introduces the major players and their vices.

A song that sounds like a Russian folk song begins, "Hope for the best, expect the worst!" as we see a con artist impersonating a disabled vet reveal his true ambulatory condition as he follows a woman in the marketplace. The son of the old woman stamps her cheek "cancelled" as she expires. I forget what the corrupt priest played by Dom Deluise does in the intro. It sounds rather bleak, but it's really funny. I think it's also Brooks' least-known comedy, at least from back in his early '70's heyday. It helps to know a little about that period in Russian history, in order to get all the sight gags.

Contact, the movie starring Jodie Foster, is not as good as the book it's based on, but the opening scene is the high point of the movie. It's based on the short film "Powers of Ten" you may have seen in school. It starts out with the camera on earth, and you can hear snippets of many different current radio and tv broadcasts. Then the camera starts pulling out into space, and you can hear the broadcast chatter become both older, ie, music of the 60's, then 40's, bits of historic newscasts going back in time, and also sparser as you get further into space, as there are fewer competing broadcast signals.

The message is that all the radio and tv signals that have ever been broadcast on earth are transmitted through the relative vacuum of space indefinitely, at the speed of light. Jody Foster's character bases her research on the idea that aliens will recognize these signals, and respond.
 
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