Greatest Movie Openings

major jay · March 24, 2012, 06:25:41 AM

THE HIDDEN

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NINJA III THE DOMINATOIN

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Rev. Powell · March 24, 2012, 12:33:52 PM

Quote from: Living_Dead_Girl on March 24, 2012, 03:52:20 AM
... I am no good off inbedding Youtube Videos in Forum posts >_< lol

Don't use the embed code from YouTube to post on this forum. Use the "youtube" icon in your control panel (above the emoticons). When you select the icon it will add text that looks like this:

[ youtube ][ /youtube ]

Paste the address between those two brackets to get this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7AFnThY472c

AndyC · March 24, 2012, 09:48:07 PM

Cannonball Run wastes no time getting started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMvkA84s4Y
Always loved that turbo Trans Am highway patrol car.

Kelly's Heroes, likewise, gives you some excitement right up front.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9581o27uA

RCMerchant · March 25, 2012, 07:45:24 AM

BLACK SUNDAY (1960)

F$cking WOW. Start off a movie by punching Barbra Steele in the face with a real big hammer. s**t! I'm on Barbra's side for the rest of the movie.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTC2vRfyVJY

Doggett · March 28, 2012, 05:39:58 AM

This. Is. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC8aCymVnwo&feature=fvsr

Mr. DS · March 28, 2012, 07:53:04 AM

I liked House Of A 1000 Corpses. That was the only part of the movie I liked actually.

AndyC · March 28, 2012, 01:06:12 PM

Quote from: Mr. DS on March 28, 2012, 07:53:04 AM
I liked House Of A 1000 Corpses. That was the only part of the movie I liked actually.

True. The movie wasn't great, but the first scene with Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding was brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmH-qgnPiUs

crackers · March 29, 2012, 04:49:02 AM

Faster p***ycat Kill! Kill!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACu2AR7fbCo

Hammock Rider · March 29, 2012, 02:50:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNvzNWuzI9Y&feature=related

Don't judge me!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nly-bfguf4k

crackers · March 30, 2012, 06:05:00 AM

Don't judge me!!!

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Good call

AndyC · March 30, 2012, 02:37:26 PM

From Dusk 'Til Dawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9m4hRQkVSA
Wish I could find a clip that included the dialogue before this.

Flick James · March 30, 2012, 02:52:37 PM

It's not the greatest movie of all time or anything, but I've always thought that the opening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind was one of the greatest opening sequences ever. The scene where they discover the disappeared planes of Flight 19 in the middle of the desert. It's such a great opening scene because it creates such an air of mystery and so completely piqued my interest in seeing the rest of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tWJ9Ec2TC4

AndyC · March 30, 2012, 03:11:20 PM

Big Trouble in Little China. Not the tacked-on scene with Victor Wong and Jerry Hardin, but rather the real opening with Ol' Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express giving his monologue over the CB.

Also, the opening of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with the first appearance of the new, meaner-looking Klingons. Very exciting beginning, followed by not a whole lot worth recommending, unless you've got a bald woman fetish. In that case, cha-ching.

ChaosTheory · March 31, 2012, 11:32:19 AM

While not great movies, 28 WEEKS LATER, GANGS OF NEW YORK and WATCHMEN all had really strong openings.
Personal favorite would probably have to be DESPERADO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKvU2DumWuk

but ONCE UP0N A TIME IN THE WEST and BLACK SUNDAY are definitely up there too.

Zapranoth · March 31, 2012, 03:27:05 PM

Pulp Fiction begins extremely well, I would say.

Amanda Plummer's mousy, eccentric delivery of the line "I'm don't wanna hurt anybody..."

followed by...

"IF ANY OF YOU f**kING PIGS MOVE, I'M GONNA EXECUTE EVERY MOTHERf**kING LAST ONE OF YOU!!!"

and then 'Misirlou' thunders as the bright title screen scrolls up.