Best opening sequence?

Hobbes

I'd say Contact. Anyone think of any others?

Contact is the one where it starts off with a picture of the world and music on some radio station. Then it zooms out further and further and the radio broadcasts change the further out they move until you hear the world games speech.

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Zapper

Contact? Hmmm can't quite remember that one myself...was that the sequence where her dad died? Ah well, no matter.

Best opening 15 minutes oif a film ever goes to "The Great Escape" all the escape attempts made during that short period of time..plus steve McQueen's ever classic

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">German Gaurd: Hiltz! 20 days in the cooler...

**Hiltz lifts his coller to show his rank**

Hiltz: Thats captin Hitlz.

Gaurd: 40 days!!

Hiltz: right.

**hiltz goes to the small cell and begins to bounce a baseball off the wall**</font>

bloody great film

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Dog.
KiT

Da Bounca

must say that gladiator has a fairly rocking opening scene

yellum

FightClub has a good opening. From inside the brain to outside and down the barrel of the gun thats in Ed Nortons mouth.
The inside of the brain is all correct and confirmed by medical people. Weird.
*Update*
Having seen Saving Private Ryan for the first time a few hours ago, I think it has one of the best opening scenes.

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WhiteWashMan

saving private ryan.
or
star wars.
the alliance ship passes and then the star destroyer passes, and passes, and passes some more. great stuff.

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Mills

Has to be Saving Private Ryan for me too

richindub2

Saving Private Ryan or Gladiator for me too, just can't beat that ole tons of killing in 5 min thing

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Wyverne

best opening scene i think (to the best of my knowledge) would have to be

SPACEBALLS

when it takes the p1ss out of star wars and the ship passes for like the entire of the first minute and then we see thats its only a small tiny ship lol

brilliant

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Fidelis

Heat

I can't remember too well but I think it's the part when they hijack the money van... I think

SantaHoe

Trainspotting

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers...choose DIY and wondering who who the **** you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?</font>

Ok, not exactly amazing watching them all playing soccer while that's being said, but for an opening narrative, that's my favorite.

But then Fight Club is not without its charms

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TwoShedsJackson

Fight Club. also Run Lola Run and Glory have interesting starts.

Manach

The opening to Gladiator from the quiet of the wheat field to the massed ranks of the legions with that brilliant sound track in the background.


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Yossarian

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zapper:
Contact? Hmmm can't quite remember that one myself...was that the sequence where her dad died? Ah well, no matter.

Best opening 15 minutes oif a film ever goes to "The Great Escape" all the escape attempts made during that short period of time..plus steve McQueen's ever classic

bloody great film

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You left out the bit where Hiltz is escorted into his cell. German Guard closes cell door.
German guard then opens cell door. Hiltz hands cell door keys to guard.



Stephen.

TinCool

Blade Runner's Opening sequence is quite catching. The future is so bleak and dreary.

Opening credits of Bullet are brilliantly done especially for its time. Love that Lalo Schiffren music.

Opening and closing shots of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Both the same, pretty cool that.

The Ski sequence at the start of the Spy Who Loved Me is pretty cool, especially the last jump off the side of the cliff. Good Stuff.

metalchicken

Any of the Indiana Jones Films.
I love the fades from the Paramount pic to mountains or the gong. I also love the way in Temple of Doom its got this really irrelevant big dance number immediately followed by the fiasco with the diamonds and stuff. And the bit in Raiders where Indy goes to get that rock thing, then the big ball chases him and the natives chase him as a huge army.
I love those films

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Shiminay

Yeah, I'd say Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Fight Club or Blade Runner.

For such an important part of a film, you'd think directors/producers/whoever would spend more time and effort...

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Bard

Just saw Fight Club for the first time last night, and a great movie and all as it is, I wouldn't class it as best of the year. The opening sequence, however, is one of the most intriguing and best written I've ever seen.

If you're looking for a thrill-packed exciting action opening sequence, mind you, you can't go wrong with Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies.

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the fnj

Saving Private Ryan for the intensity and realism. Start Trek First Contact for the cinematic excellence. The pull back from Picards eye out of the borg cube and beyond is the longest one ever. It was very cool.

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cyberdog

Raiders of the Lost Ark. The booby-trapped tomb/rolling boulder/mad dash from natives does it every time.

plastic membrane

Agree with all of the above, especially for mentioning the Contact opening. Another suggestion, the opening sequence of Speed, with the elevator. Sets things up nicely.

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Panda

I liked the start of Pulp Fiction, fairly
hectic goings on in the cafe loike.

Keeks

Magnolia!

For sheer and utter weirdness, it sets you up nicely for a really weird film.

Dustaz

i love the contact opening seq, personal favorite of mine
But are we talking about openening sequences or credit sequences?
The se7en credit sequence was a bit good. as was fight club.
Also someone mentioned the bit in contact when her dad died. That one long stedicam shot is superb, theres an invisble cut to a reverse angle in it (as she runs up the stairs afair)

BlitzKrieg

Are we forgetting a classic here??? yes we are


2001: Space Odyessy (spelt wrong?)


come on every moment was classic the slow movement and the music and all


may stanley Kubrick rest in peace

also: the usual gladiator and Alien both ridley Scott and Blade Runner
man tha man can do opening moments in films

idiana jones? by the time i saw it so many scits of it where done i knew wha was gonna happen with bouldar and all

Kelleys heros opening was funny all the germans in the town then 1 stops looks in the jeep WTF??? and clint smiles and drives off

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TwoShedsJackson

Another late entry is Fearless: with Jeff Bridges and a kid and a couple of other people walking through a field of grass looking quite dazed.

You don't know what they're up to until they start passing pieces of airplane wreckage - if memory serves there's no music or anything, the overall effect is very striking.

neuro-praxis

Already mentioned:

Magnolia
Fight Club
2001
Run Lola Run

Not already mentioned:

Man on the Moon
Being John Malkovitch
Event Horizon
The Commitments

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Miguel_Sanchez

oooh ooh oooh Fearless.

Great, great, great movie. One of my all time favourites.

have to agree with Castor on the opening. Striking. And what follows is so brilliant it should be seen by all.


If you don't like it you're probably thick as a plank

bugler

lol. charming lebowski hehe.
I think Carlitos way opening is kinda cool,initially with him on the stretcher after being shot: "somethings pulling me close to the ground,i can sense but i cant see."
or maybe raging bulls,thot the film in general was a little overrated but the opening is class,with him shadow boxing in the ring,very stylish

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TwoShedsJackson

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bugler:

or maybe raging bulls,thot the film in general was a little overrated </font>

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