Film Your favourite movie opening scenes

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Driving home today, my Spotify shuffle played Every Me, Every You by Placebo which instantly made me think of this...


Then I started thinking of all the other great movie opening scenes.

What's your favourite? Videos mandatory

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Children of Men opening scene is pretty perfect.

 

[Sweet Square]

 

[Rado_N]

May 2021 - https://www.redcafe.net/threads/favorite-movie-opening-scene.462525/

May 2022 - https://www.redcafe.net/threads/best-opening-scenes-to-a-movie.470727/

Please try again in 4 months.

 

[Cheimoon]

I was looking at some lists and would additionally nominate:

Once Upon A Time In The West (really sets the tone, too)

Touch Of Evil (historically required)

Up (animation at its finest- in this scene, anyway, don't care much for the rest of the film)
(couldn't find the full version so this will have to do)

 

[horsechoker]

 

[Hugh Jass]

The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

The Godfather

 

[Volumiza]

Too many to list and no doubt too many forgotten but a few spring immediately to mind.

2001
The Shining
Up! (You beat me to it @Cheimoon )
Trainspotting
Jaws
There will be blood
Prometheus - totally average film but I was transfixed by that opening scene

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Children of Men opening scene is pretty perfect.

Videos mandatory

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

 

[Cheimoon]

Videos mandatory

Added.

 

[AaronRedDevil]

 

[Dirty Schwein]

I came in to post this...

 

[AaronRedDevil]

I came in to post this...

Good minds

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

Blade nightclub scene is pretty cool

 

[Vidyoyo]

This is the cinema equivalent of crack to me

 

[The Corinthian]

The Dark Knight

 

[Vidyoyo]

The Dark Knight

Good choice IMDB user

sorry, it's a good movie

 

[nimic]

Great pick.

Others:

 

[nimic]

 

[Reditus]

 

[weetee]

There are probably ones I think better but from the top of my head the intro to Apocalypse Now always gets me. Such a perfect and stimulating entry into a movie journey.

 

[Twins]

No Country for Old Men sets the scene perfectly. Some beautiful shots of the Deep South, with Tommy Lee Jones voiceover talking about the world changing, and changing to something he doesn’t comprehend or recognise…just as Javier Bardem’s character is getting arrested and put into the back of a police car. It’s beautifully done.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

Up

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

And some people say Nicholas Cage can't act.

 

[Red the Bear]

Antichrist is certainly captivating even if von trier may be a fraud.
Edit: I don't know if it counts but I remember loving the intro to ghost in the shell when it came out.

A classic.

 

[Jim Beam]

What a brilliant movie (and opening scene). Same as Terminator 2, way ahead of its time.

Have to rewatch it again soon.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

I can't find the whole scene on YouTube but Inglorious Basterds. Waltz is amazing.

 

[SalfordRed18]

X men 2

 

[SalfordRed18]

Children of Men opening scene is pretty perfect.

Fantastic film but can't for the life of me remember it. It's not the one in the cafe is it?

 

[CallyRed]

I can't find the whole scene on YouTube but Inglorious Basterds. Waltz is amazing.

This

 

[The Cat]

 

[Mike Smalling]

Drive.

 

[oneniltothearsenal]

This was my first thought as well. Brilliant opening scene, probably my all-time favorite opening.

Matrix and No Country are also great shouts for this.

 

[Camy89]

What film is is that follows a bullet from manufacture all the way to its target?

That was a cool opening sequence but can’t remember the name of it.

 

[WI_Red]

Fallen. You are literally told how the film is going to end and you have no idea that is what is happening.

 

[Red the Bear]

What film is is that follows a bullet from manufacture all the way to its target?

That was a cool opening sequence but can’t remember the name of it.

Already posted, lords of war starring nic cage.

 

[Tottenhamguy]

 

[Mercurial]

2001: A Space Odyssey - The Dawn of Man