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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Going to start with True Romance, the haunting music, the scenes of Detroit and then Patricia Arquette's voiceover - "you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool" stunning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saving Private Ryan.

Which is a pity because the rest of the film is crap!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Saving Private Ryan.

Which is a pity because the rest of the film is crap!"

Definitely dramatic, one of the great war film opening scenes. Not sure it ranks with the best of other genres though.

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By *44bertCouple
over a year ago

Inverness

"I can't feel my legs... Kaiser."

The opening scene in Jaws is genius, so much so that Spielberg uses the same trick at the start of Jurassic Park - the unseen monster dragging someone to their death.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Any James Bond film

C...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pulp fiction...

Any of you fucking pricks move and I'll execute every mother fucking last one of you...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Pulp fiction...

Any of you fucking pricks move and I'll execute every mother fucking last one of you..."

Tarantino knows how to start a movie, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and True Romance are all incredibly good.

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By *olarfoxMan
over a year ago

North Cambs

"Pulp fiction...

Any of you fucking pricks move and I'll execute every mother fucking last one of you..."

..and then cue the awesome soundtrack!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beverly Hills Cop - Police chasing the lorry with the dodgy ciggies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really, reeeeeally need to watch true Romance now. Absolutely adore that film & Christian Slater.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Inglourious basterds...great opening scene!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cliffhanger.

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By *44bertCouple
over a year ago

Inverness

"I really, reeeeeally need to watch true Romance now. Absolutely adore that film & Christian Slater."

"I always said, if I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I really, reeeeeally need to watch true Romance now. Absolutely adore that film & Christian Slater."

It has the most amazing cast, the scene with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper is utterly mesmerising.

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By *ukkakecoupleukCouple
over a year ago

horsham

magnolia . fantastic opening 5 minutes. the rest is terrible

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The beginning of the original Italian Job or the beginning of Highlander.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Goodfellas is also an amazing start. The rest of the movie is brilliant as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surprised no one's mentioned Star Wars yet.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The Godfather Part I with Marlon Brando is a brilliant opening scene, the wedding, the people wanting an audience with the Godfather, the request for help from the undertaker shaking with fear, the favour which would be called in when Sonny was killed. Brilliant.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Serenity.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The opening to 2001 what the hell was that about !!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Up.

A great beginning and so sad. I had to pause before I carried on with the rest of the film.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Surprised no one's mentioned Star Wars yet."

I was just thinking about that.

Those opening shots when we saw the Star Destroyer for the first time.

Even after 38 years it is still an incredible shot

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Up.

A great beginning and so sad. I had to pause before I carried on with the rest of the film. "

One of the most touching opening scenes for sure, brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Surprised no one's mentioned Star Wars yet.

I was just thinking about that.

Those opening shots when we saw the Star Destroyer for the first time.

Even after 38 years it is still an incredible shot"

And at the time it was ground breaking, no one had seen effects like that ever. It really was out of this world.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"Serenity."

"At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gladiator

I'll have to think of others

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By *ickeymousesCouple
over a year ago

Lich

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By *ickeymousesCouple
over a year ago

Lich

Blade when the blood comes out of the shower heads and the music is pumping

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bladerunner. When Holden asks Leon to tell him about his mother during the Voight Comp test....

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover

"Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack."

Yes that is the first of many astounding scenes in a film totally bereft of cliches (sorry I don't have the wherewithal to produce the acute accent!)

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By *eliciouslyNastyMan
over a year ago

London

Apocalypse Now!

Chopper blade sound....

Waiting for a mission, going soft!

Then "This is the end"....

Napalm....

Helicopters!!!

If it had had ninjas in it, then I would of died on the spot!

Need I say more!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack."

Oh good one

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By *eliciouslyNastyMan
over a year ago

London

"Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack."

Yep, beautifully crafted.... How does someone make you like a psychotic, evil, Nazi!

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover

"Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack.

Oh good one

I'm generally not a great fan of Tarantino movies but this one is really excellent.

I have to confess I did fall in love a little with the cinema proprietress. She was lovely!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Inglourious Basterds inside the french farmers shack.

Oh good one

I'm generally not a great fan of Tarantino movies but this one is really excellent.

I have to confess I did fall in love a little with the cinema proprietress. She was lovely!

Seems like Tarantino is genius at creating brilliant first scenes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

butch cassidy + the sundance kid.

cool as a very cool thing.

' I didn't know you're the Sundance Kid'

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By *hekaiserMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Quantum of solace....love the opening. The aston martin v12 grumble

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Trainspotting, Iggy Pop blasting, Ewan McGregor running and the famous "choose life" dialogue. Remember the hairs on the back of my neck standing up, it was like a jolt of electricity charging through my veins.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

And on British Films, 4 Weddings was a great opening, 13 fucks followed by bugger! Quintessentially English!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Goodfellas is also an amazing start. The rest of the movie is brilliant as well."

Goodfellas is my choice as well. "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." Then into Tony Bennett's Rags to Riches. Brilliant!

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

""I can't feel my legs... Kaiser."

The opening scene in Jaws is genius, so much so that Spielberg uses the same trick at the start of Jurassic Park - the unseen monster dragging someone to their death. "
Of course we will Never know the real power or experience Of a real Dinosaur,which would of been awesome In real life, but in the first jurassic park when there is a scene I think its small dinosaurs on migration I think they are annual migration,and I remember clearly at the time almost Jumping out of my seat

When A tyranasaurus rex rushes out from no Where at great speed I think at the same time collides with a tree trunk Almost shattering it due to his power And gets one of the small dinosaurs which bravely fights back second blow From t rex takes him out that scene high lighted the movie makers skills for me movies have come a long way over the years..

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

how long does the opening scene have to be.... because the big kid in me is saying the first 10 minutes of UP! when they go thru the story of karl and ellie....

truely beautiful.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"how long does the opening scene have to be.... because the big kid in me is saying the first 10 minutes of UP! when they go thru the story of karl and ellie....

truely beautiful....."

Definitely counts, a real tear jerker.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blade. With the vampire rave.

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

"Any James Bond film

C..."

The opening to The Spy Who Loved Me, when Bond skis off the cliff. At the time of its release, it got a standing applause in the cinemas.

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

night of the twisters

could say twister as well

aliens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Antichrist has a one of my favourite openers, really sets the tone of the film. But I think Kubrick is the master of opening scenes; 2001, The Shining and ACO are all brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The opening sequence of Top Gun as the jets take off and the music builds. Great!

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By *enuineBiGalWoman
over a year ago

Sheerness

Fuck it fuck it fuck it... 4 weddings

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The opening scene of the first Scream was totally brilliant as well, everything you want from a horror flick.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

Easy Rider....drug deal, stash the cash in the fuel tank, ride away to "Born to be Wild"....brilliant.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

The foot race with Renton and the security guards at the beginning of Trainspotting.

The hotel room scene in Apocalypse Now.

The dream sequence in Terminator II

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Betty Blue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lawrence of Arabia.

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