Best Opening Scene in a Movie

[Tanto-chan]

I liked the opening to Inglorious Bastards but the top one for me is Mirror Mask since it pretty much tells the story without you realizing it.

 

[kimba_lion]

Misirlou for the win.

i do agree the best opening scene ever

 

[Mordwyl]

Major Payne. Would you really expect a child-friendly comedy to start in the middle of a war?

 

[Mister Anderson]

The best has to be die hard. when he is in the car then BOOM!. massive explosion.

 

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[firemark]

Have to say that Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds hold the top in my book, but I also loved the beginning of Thank You for Smoking. Boondock Saints also holds a place dear to my heart.

 

[Bloodeye]

28 Weeks later. Man was he good at fleeing.

 

[Master10K]

28 Weeks Later [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ap4xoKs1eY] also has my most memorable Opening scene. Sure the movie barely holds a candle to the prequel (28 Days Later) but I just loved the build-up to this intense zombie madness.

 

[42]

The start of Reservoir Dogs. Best conversation ever.

 

[The Middleman]

I like the opening scene to The Hangover. If it's your first time seeing it, it gives such a badass tone that you almost feel as though you walked into a completely different movie.

 

[Cpu46]

Serenity comes to mind, but then again I thought the entire movie was memorable.

 

[Fingolfin High-King of the Noldor]

Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring was one of my favorites. Watching Sauron school those guys was tight!

You liked a 15-minute-long monologue from a narrator?

Yes! I most certainly did!

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

I hate the FUCKING movie, disgracing the movie series and all fans of the first two movies but Spiderman 3, the opening cinematic is UBER epic, with recapping the last two movies with the epic music. I'd watch the movie again JUST to see the intro credits.

I still hated the film.

 

[rekabdarb]

UP was the best recently, but nothing tops...

where you aware that Francis ford Coppola actually got him SUPER drunk and made him do this scene.

anyways the BEST opening scene of a movie was when Leon Scott Kennedy walked into the mysterious village with only 1 clip of ammunition and had to survive for about 5-10 minutes... o wait that wasn't a movie

 

[Tharwen]

Lord of War. Where it follows the single bullet through its production and eventual use.

 

[Mar451]

Watchmen
Full Metal Jacket
The Dark Knight
Reign of Fire

 

[Fxh_legato]

The opening to zombieland was awesome. Metallica + Zombies= awesome

 

[cannot_aim]

American Gangster, they light a guy on fire and then shoot him

 

[shwnbob]

Daybreakers. A vampire girl committing suicide by going out into the sunlight and screaming like Hell while burning... Epic...

 

[Strid]

The only one I can think of at the moment (because I just re-read the book) would be the opening scene to Watchmen. I think that the choice of music in the opening was awesome.