List your favorite Movie opening scenes

[Ralph Sir Edward]

We've been doing the endings, not how about beginnings?

My favorite is the the opening to Farewell, My Lovely, with Robert Mitchum. (To truly appreciate it, you should see it in the 1999 DVD, which was issued in 4x3 instead of a wide screen crop).

 

[DrQ]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2​

 

[Cheapseater]

Saving Private Ryan...it certainly isn't short but such a real life tribute to those who were there.

 

[Luanne]

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
West Side Story 1961 version

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Another thread on this.

Your favorite movie opening scenes

A thread to post your faves. I love the opening scene from "Once Upon a Time in the West". Sergio Leone at his finest. Minimal dialogue. Everything is set by mood.

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[Old Dog]

Silverado, 1985.
Scott Glenn wakes up fighting for his life.

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[T-Dot-Traveller]

Beverly Hills Cop [ 1984 ] -with Eddie Murphy hanging on when the 24 wheeler takes off.
Correction- it’s got tandem trailers - I just watched it & the music is great too

 

[ScoopKona]

1) "I believe in America." The Godfather. The entire scene about the undertaker's plea for "justice."
2) Blade Runner. The opening scene lets us know that this is a society with zero empathy.
3) The Blues Brothers. "One Timex digital watch, broken."
4) The Magnificent Seven. Eli Wallach's raiders descend on the little farming town.
5) Star Wars. The opening scene that changed film forever.

 

[gln60]

The opening scene of Jaws (1975)…a young girl becomes victim to “JAWS”unseen by her boyfriend looking for her onshore…creepy to say the least.

 

[Cheapseater]

The vision of Jaws never leaves you when headed to the ocean.

 

[Talent312]

... 5) Star Wars. The opening scene that changed film forever.

My #1...

(2) Raiders of the Lost Ark

(3) 2001: A Space Odyssey
(4) Blade Runner
(5) Jaws

 

[jorcus]

It's never on top of a list but almost 50 years later it's a meme (feel shame) in hockey circles. A great cold opening from Slapshot.

 

[PigsDad]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day. The opening was always a favorite of mine. It was also one of the first movies with a really good Dolby surround soundtrack, and was a good one to demonstrate a home theater setup.

Kurt

 

[easyrider]

A movie I've seen many times because we have the DVD at the cabin is Shrek. After watching this every year with the kids and grandkids and now great grandkids it's kind of grown on me.

Bill

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

High Plains Drifter -

This sets the whole mood for the movie. Eastwood starts out as an enigmatic figure emerging from the haze. Next, he's in the edge of a forest, and then progressively moves from the forest through sage, and finally into a stark desert, to a town where everyone is suspicious and on edge.

If you don't know the rest of the movie, you might not notice his reaction to the crack of the whip.