The Philadelphia Story ( 1940)
Best Opening Scene of a Movie
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 6, 2025 9:44 PM |
All About Eve - Karen meeting Eve outside the theater and taking her in to meet Margo. The entire sequence was brilliant.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 6, 2025 4:29 PM |
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
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 6, 2025 4:33 PM |
I'm partial to the opening scene Robert Altman's "The Player." It's a fun, witty play on the "one long tracking shot."
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 6, 2025 6:07 PM |
West Side Story
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 6, 2025 6:07 PM |
2001 A Space Odyssey
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 6, 2025 6:11 PM |
Once Upon a Time in the West (including the nearly 10-minute opening credited, not included here).
A perfect metaphor for life and death.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 6, 2025 6:12 PM |
"Sunset Boulevard," of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 6, 2025 6:51 PM |
"The Prestige"
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 6, 2025 6:51 PM |
Superman (1978)
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 6, 2025 6:57 PM |
That isn't the opening scene, r1.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 6, 2025 6:59 PM |
The heist opening sequence in "Femme Fatale" (2002) plus the Ryuichi Sakamoto score.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 6, 2025 7:18 PM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 6, 2025 7:53 PM |
Trainspotting
Blue Velvet
Don’t Look Now
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 6, 2025 8:35 PM |
R8 I would have added that but I already listed 3. It was TWO TOO MANY.
Great movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 6, 2025 9:12 PM |
R2 and R6 I would have chosen yours too. But I will add Saving Private Ryan.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 6, 2025 9:44 PM |