Best Opening Scene of a Movie

All About Eve - Karen meeting Eve outside the theater and taking her in to meet Margo. The entire sequence was brilliant.

Can't pick a favorite but they're all old since my short term memory is shot.

GODFATHER "I believe in America"

GOODFELLAS "As far back as I can remember i always wanted to be a gangster."

JAWS

PURPLE RAIN

THE LETTER (1940):

I'm partial to the opening scene Robert Altman's "The Player." It's a fun, witty play on the "one long tracking shot."

West Side Story

2001 A Space Odyssey

Once Upon a Time in the West (including the nearly 10-minute opening credited, not included here).

A perfect metaphor for life and death.

"Sunset Boulevard," of course.

"The Prestige"

Superman (1978)

I win.

That isn't the opening scene, r1.

Paris, Texas

Can’t get more iconic than this one.

The heist opening sequence in "Femme Fatale" (2002) plus the Ryuichi Sakamoto score.

Boogie Nights (1997). A nearly 3 minute steady-cam shot that introduces most of the characters, connections, and sets up a great late-‘70s groove.

Trainspotting

Blue Velvet

Don’t Look Now

R8 I would have added that but I already listed 3. It was TWO TOO MANY.

Great movie.

Memorable

The Sound of Music (1965)

R2 and R6 I would have chosen yours too. But I will add Saving Private Ryan.

The pre-credits sequences of Charade and Up, for very different reasons.

Honourable mention to the ski sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me.

The opening scene of Heat where we see the characters doing the final prep work for the armored car heist.

Grease 2. The rest of the movie forget it.

1-Another vote for Touch of Evil

2-Harold and Maude: Harold's lengthy and precise preparation for his "suicide" and his mother's deadpan reaction to it