Favorite movie opening scenes

[GoldenRivet]

So, What are some of your favorite movie opening scenes?

here are a hand full of my favorites.



The Twilight Zone Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAGUefMMmc)

Gone in Sixty Seconds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWKeFR1q4FU)

Fight Club (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3217450521941549346#)

Lord of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn1zogeyO4)

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvvjiE4AdUI&feature=related)

Contact (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQF-4uyD4Y&NR=1)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzIlEhZxnE)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mNBbgQ2-s)

[Sledgehammer427]

all of the above and Gabriel's Monologue from Swordfish.

[Jimbuna]

Saving Private Ryan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDCrMVtVI0

[Oberon]

Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1UXSxTjfo

Top Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkq-QUOSkwQ

Hunt for Red October
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPBr4L1eyE

:hmmm: I'll probably think of more later.

[Feuer Frei!]

Gladiator: (love this, epic)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331clHFsnpY

For a Few Dollars More: (Clint Eastwood is a legend)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bWKgYL1JAA

[kiwi_2005]

That Lord of war and its a very good movie, LoTR Return of the king when Smegal finds the ring while fishing in the start.

[perisher]

Where Eagles Dare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_R0r8hypU

[mookiemookie]

Reservoir Dogs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awGkBWTlZPE)

[Sailor Steve]

Way Of The Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLXYu6plhg

[UnderseaLcpl]

Full Metal Jacket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_1hglRkPk

[VonHesse]

There Will Be Blood

So much tense drama and emotion without using any words.


(no Youtube link found, sorry)

[mako88sb]

The opening scene of "Midway" using footage from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" always comes to mind when ever this topic comes up. Just love the sound of those radial engines on start-up.

[Dan D]

Peter Sellers, The Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_JWywDqgRs)

"What is that idiot doing?" LOL.

[sergei]

Layer Cake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sH50osFxns&feature=related

Oceans Eleven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcVOfUtzq7c

Apocalypse Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzM4D2_uOP0

Enemy At The Gates
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=43f_1175395150&o=1

[AngusJS]

Shaun of the Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8C6fMyRQM8

Cliffhanger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKqlwKfH8R4&feature=related

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SII-jhEd-a0&feature=fvst

A moose once bit my sister...

[VipertheSniper]

Shoot 'em up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeG1A2pBngI a tad short, the stuff that follows up is hilarious

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Anyone mentioned A Clockwork Orange, yet?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

I like this opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7prgyEqZM

My favorite live band. Too bad the top guy smoked.

[STEED]

For me it goes to Charlton Heston in The Omega Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdHbWh0RsHQ

[jumpy]

Predator

I can't find the opening scene to post, but if you remember the film, it goes something like this:
Alien pod enters earths atmosphere and we infer that it lands somewhere below. Cut to scene of the choppers flying over the coast towards the jungle and coming in to land in the makeshift military camp, somewhere in south america. The chopper lands and the commandos disembark, followed last by 'Dutch Schaeffer' who pauses to light a big fat cigar, before climbing aboard a jeep which then drives through the surf to the command post, where our hero and his stalwart band begin their mission...

Here's the opening music anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnAxydhZ8M
Not the original soundtrack as it's discontinued.
Original score composed by Alan Silvestri.

Dutch: So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meat grinder...What happened to you, Dillon? You used to be someone I could trust.
Dillon: I woke up. Why don't you? You're an asset. An expendable asset. And I used you to get the job done, got it?awesome dialogue :DL

[Oberon]

That reminds me!

28 Days later. That deserted London.

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/28-days-later-empty-street-small.jpg

:yeah: Very well made.

Oh, and the Italian Job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpq1_AphUSY

[STEED]

ALIEN had a Marie Celeste feel of a ghost ship before we come across the crew in hyper sleep.

[TLAM Strike]

The Beast of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygUt7RWPvc)

The Abyss (Youtube removed the vid of this one... :( )

Cross of Iron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMiG1PrxjU)

[GoldenRivet]

The Beast of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygUt7RWPvc)

The Abyss (Youtube removed the vid of this one... :( )

Cross of Iron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMiG1PrxjU)

I was going to include the abyss... but i couldnt locate any video so i didnt.

in fact there were a couple of movies i couldnt find.

i didnt include saving private ryan because i thought it was pretty obvious :D

[Buddahaid]

Cross of Iron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxCYOz40fk&feature=related

[TLAM Strike]

Cross of Iron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxCYOz40fk&feature=related

Already posted that one. Still great movie. :salute:

[Buddahaid]

Guess I'm blind or scanned too fast. :O: