Best Opening Sequence

yellum

What movies have the best opening sequences ?

The bond ones are always damned good, but what are peoples favourites ?

Sloth

Alien 3 had a great start oh and Bladerunner too. "Tell me about your mother.....".

ella minnow pea

i though The Fellowship was good....and vanilla sky as well actually

Bacchus

Each of the Original Star Wars Trilogy opening sequences were cool.
The Matrix opening with Trinity blew me away when I first saw it. It still looks great too.
Minority Report had a great stylish and expositional opening. It explained the concept very well and was still very fast paced.

Clintons Cat

The opening sequence of La Haine with the world and the petrol bomb igniting.

Once Were Warriors again poster related,as the idylic myth of tourist brochures pulls back to revel a scene of post industrial decay and polution.

jonno

Rear Window
North by Northwest
Casablanca
LOTR
The Third Man
Saving Private Ryan

I could go on to name countless more but it's only early in the morning yet

bringitdown

FightClub
LOTR is superb
The Matrix
Memento

koneko

Fight Club.

It was one of those where you're sitting in the cinema, and even during the intro you can tell it's going to be one hell of a film.

And it was! Hurrah!

I like the opening scenes of X2 (go Nightcrawler!) and Ghost Ship (despite the rest of that film being awful) aswell as the ones already mentioned.

Nemici

not so much an opening sequence but the opening titles of seven are quite impressive.

Lemming

the beginning of Platoon

the new guys coming off the plane to be met with the sight of body-bags about to be loaded onto the plane that they're coming off - the whole "if you f*ck up this is how you go home" thing being rammed home.

Hamburger Hill

the opening shot is the memorial wall before jumping into the a*se-end of combat with the platoon in question trying to evacuate. It's only afterwards in the film that you learn why they were so eager to get out of there, being the rather notorious Ashau valley.

Titus

It was oh-so-different and you're sitting back scratching your head trying to figure out exactly what is going on.

The opening for Exaclibur was great too.

It's got that whole "dark ages" feel to it and you just get a sense of something grandious about to start unfolding before you.

Rabies

Training Day.

Not exactly the opening scene but it is in the first few minutes. Its the scene in the cafe when denzel washington meets his new recruit. the dialog is brilliant.

pauldeehan

Blade Runner. The opening shots of the city are simultaneously hellish and beautiful.

theciscokid

xmen 2 was pretty impressive

go nighty go

nosmo

The opening sequence of "Missing in Action" was pretty damn funny.. in fact, the entire film was hilarious.. pity it wasn't meant to be

Lemming

Originally posted by Rabies
Training Day.

Not exactly the opening scene but it is in the first few minutes. Its the scene in the cafe when denzel washington meets his new recruit. the dialog is brilliant.

Denzel Washington was class in that

commuterised

ah it has to be the opening scene of saving private ryan, has to be witnessed on DVD also for the full sound effects.

seamus

The Matrix was teh win. Especially considering you didn't really know what was goin on, it was just like 'Holy Schnidt!'

Prolly why I was a little disappointed with the start of Reloaded.

Star Trek: First Contact has a great start too. Full of action

dood

Apocalypse Now

Sposs

Blade.

lamda

Yup Blade Runner...
Amelie, Magnolia

Spiffing

X-Men 2

Sauron

the matrix definetly:)
there is only two words to describe it:
:eek: and:ninja:

LOTR
Gladiator
MP and the holy Grail was good(especially the credits)

The Sweeper

X-Men 2 was excellent...

And what about that all time classic, the opening sequence of Jaws? Fancy a swim anyone? It's dark and I have be-er...

D-Generate

Gladiator
The Matrix
X-Men 2

The opening to along Came A Spider was pretty good.

Karl Hungus

The Big Lebowski - "Sometimes, there's a man..." Classic
Both of the Lord Of The Rings films so far.
Leon.
X-Men 2.
Saving Private Ryan and Enemy At The Gates both had fantastic opening scenes.

Although, I really dont like the fact that a lot of films these days are just trying to out-opening sequence each other. Gets a little boring.

Edit: Oh yeah, almost forgot. The opening to 'Day Of The Dead' was awesome. And in the same respect, 28 Days Later when Jim was walking around a deserted London.

vasch_ro

The Matrix for me , because when I went I didn't know anything about the movie and I was really taken aback,
I quite like Star Wars for similar reasons, esp when Darth Vader appears,
Also like opening of Heat (LA Takedown) it sets up the movie well and introduces the characters quickly in a contextual fashion,

also 28 days later when he is wandering around London I think its really well done,
and Blade , the scene in the disco with the Blood sprinklers
excellent

The start to Austin Powers 3 was very clever and perhaps the highlight of the movie

shotamoose

eh, Touch of Evil tbh.

Oh and Austin Powers 3 of course!

Tusky

The matrix, Blade runner but my 2 favs would have to be...

"Apocalypse now"...

the doors song with the napalm in the forest !

and

"The Lost Boys"

again with the doors " people are strange" playing as the camera flys over the amusement park from the vampires point of view classic !

[edit] : just after flicking through my dvds to check for more and realised i forgot about the opening to "29 days later" ! brilliant ! [/edit]

echomadman

John Woos "Hard Boiled", the gunfight in the Tea house.

And the Motorbike chase in Akira

DapperGent

The three stories at the start of Magnolia are absolutely captivating.

Saving Private Ryan, don't really like the rest of it but the beach landing is amazing.

The car crash in Mullholland Drive.

Goodfellas. Ray Liotta's voice over.

Plus that scene in Teenage Sluts IV: The Butt****athon.

G

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has to be one of the funniest openers.

Johnny Gomez

Austin Powers 3
X-Men 2
Saving Private Ryan
LOTR: FOTR
And...... The Matrix

nosmo

Pulp Fiction!

"I love you hunnybunny..."

ciano

Originally posted by nosmo
Pulp Fiction!

"I love you hunnybunny..."

Defo! That scene was class!!

"Any of you f**king pr*cks move, and i'll execute every last mother f**king one of you!"

SCULLY

raiders of the lost ark...

NeoSlicerZ

Matrix Reloaded
FoTR
if anime is allowed : Gundam SEED

plastic membrane

Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Everyone remembers that one.

Beëlzebooze

Gladiator

has the best opening sequence EVER in my opinion.

patch

Not the best of course, but I really liked the last bond opener....theres something refreshing about seeing the guy get tortured to the tune of madonna.....;)

daveg

Originally posted by patch69
Not the best of course, but I really liked the last bond opener....theres something refreshing about seeing the guy get tortured to the tune of madonna.....;)

Or even (was it a view to a kill) where he ski's off the mountain and prachutes down (with the union Jack parachute :rolleyes: but it was pretty cool).

Duffman

Opening scene of Bowling for Columbine, the bank with the guns, is rather amusing imho.....

segadreamcast

Final Destination 2...?

Or am I mad for saying that?

bucks73

FOTR and Star Wars.

Ajos

First ten minutes of The Fisher King. Not in your face action by any means, just an awesome setting up of the character and story.

adser53

LOTR
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Blade Runner
Kiss Of The Dragon (The cops chasin Jet Li around the hotel)
Ghostbusters ("GET HER")
X-Men 2 (YAY for Kurt Wagner)
28 Days Later
Blade

GUI_XP

opening sequence of mission impossible 2