Best Movie Opening?
Best Movie Opening?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:19pm
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:39pmThe Sound of Music
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:56pm
Disney's Beauty & the Beast
The audiences actually applauded after that "stained glass" sequence when the title card came on.
How often does a movie audience applaud at an opening sequence? And that happened 2 of the 3 times I saw the film in its initial release.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#5re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:55pmI always wanted a swimming pool.
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peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#7re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 11:55pmGah, I was gonna saw JAWS, too. It just puts you right there in scared off my ass mode.
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#8re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:59am
For a horror movie, SCREAM had a pretty damn creepy beginning.
then again, the last time I saw it I was like...11.
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#9re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 2:04am
I have two favorites.
The opening sequence to Goodfellas is genius. From the guys shooting up the body in the trunk, to Ray Liotta's unforgettable dry delivery of "As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster!" Trunk slams shut, Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches" plays. It was exhilarating!
My other favorite is The Sound of Music. It's just magic.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#10re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 4:45am8 1/2
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#11re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 5:57amI don't know if they're the best, but definitely two of my favorites are the opening sequences to "All That Jazz" and "Love Actually."
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#13re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 9:05am
The very opening of Braveheart with the fly over of Inverness, and the voice of Angus Mcfadyen (who played Robert the Bruce)
Also The Fellowship of the Ring
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Featured Actor Joined: 7/3/05
#14re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 11:15am
"Mary Poppins," as that Poppins woman floats on a cloud over London to the strains of the best overture ever.
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Updated On: 9/2/06 at 11:15 AM
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#15re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:34pm
I love Mary Poppins overture too, soooo good. Also, blueroses, that opening to Goodfellas is brilliant, I agree. I love that filme. I love the scene where they take DeVito (Joe Pesci) to be a made man, but intead blow his brains out. Brilliant.
I also like the opening to Chicago. The Music makes it for me.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#16re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:10pmIn addition to pretty much every movie listed on this thread, the opening scene to Snake Eyes (a rather stupid movie) was brilliantly done. Same thing with Touch of Evil (great movie).
#17re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/2/06 at 5:46pm
Oooooh, I can't possibly go through every movie I've ever seen to pick a few. I'm going to go with Phantom of the Opera. My breath actually caught in my chest as the chandelier rose and the music began. I love the visual effects as well.
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Updated On: 9/2/06 at 05:46 PM
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#18re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/3/06 at 4:04pmas much as I hate the movie, My Best Friend's Wedding has a great opening
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/3/06 at 5:16pmI agree with a lot said alread (POTO, SCREAM, SOUND OF MUSIC, ETC.), but I would also like to add HALLOWEEN to the mix.
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#22re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/3/06 at 6:03pm
the opening scene to Snake Eyes (a rather stupid movie) was brilliantly done
I agree. And, it may be rather stupid, but I love the whole film. I only wish they had restored the edited tidal-wave sequence, for DVD release.
LaurenB
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/04
#23re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/3/06 at 7:25pm
Sharkey's Machine - "Street Life" is the title song
#24re: Best Movie Opening?
Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:13pm
I agree. And, it may be rather stupid, but I love the whole film. I only wish they had restored the edited tidal-wave sequence, for DVD release.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Snake Eyes. I also thought that Carla Gugino stole the show. De Palma's work can be inconsistent, but he NEVER bores me. I think that Sisters, The Untouchables, and Femme Fatale are his best.
A note to those who mentioned the Scream opening: I think it's awesome that one of Drew Barrymore's shortest performances also happens to be one of her best. She was riveting in those 15 minutes.
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