Post your favorite movie intros

[MrScorpio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4jMzKxYB74

Lord Of War

[Forkboy]

1. Not even a contest. Best opening to a movie EVER!

"When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face...you'll know what to do."

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

[ghostsofgiants]

2. 8½

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsAkWc7c8Mo

[elleng]

14. Grazie

!

[ghostsofgiants]

15. It's a masterpiece.

[Broken_Hero]

3. Star Wars, A New Hope, nt

[pokerfan]

4. Easy

http://www.youtube.com/v/SGhv7sYBRjc&hl=en

[Broken_Hero]

7. damn, that one is pretty damn good...damn near forgot that movie

existed...

[pokerfan]

9. I forgot that song ever existed until I saw the movie

Great little song with a very cool bass intro.

[PittPoliSci]

5. Idiocracy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyewL0oaWA

[Swede]

6. Apocalypse Now - the End

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUQtbZ3Tbs

[x-g.o.p.er]

16. Agreed! n/t

[Westegg]

46. Oustanding, Red Team...

...Get you a case of beer for that one!

[pokerfan]

8. Another one

http://www.youtube.com/v/vGyq7d62oPQ&hl=en

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen!

:wow:

[begin_within]

19. I agree, "Contact" (1997) has the best opening of any film made so far.

[pokerfan]

27. Yeah, the times and distances don't match up

but I attribute that to artistic license. The Eagle Nebula is over 5,000 light years away. No terrestrial transmissions being heard there.

But still very cool.

[Westegg]

47. I was wondering about that!...

...if the filmmakers tried to make it accurate in terms of light-speed and distance. In the end, the need for cool visuals won out, I guess. In reality, there would probably have been long stretches where the image basically looked the same.

A great idea, though, and really, really well done. Helps put the universe, not to mention humanity, in perspective.

[pokerfan]

55. I was rolling my eyes in the theater

which was not good as I am a huge fan of Sagan. It made me a little suspicious of the rest of the treatment.

First time was compressed. We had already gone back decades in time before we had left the solar system which is only a few light-hours across. Then time is stretched so that we can still hear radio as far our as the Eagle Nebula which is several thousands of light years distant.

And no one uses telescopes to watch a meteor shower? I don't.

[sammythecat]

36. That was good.

One of my favorite movies.

[Archae]

10. Here's one of mine.

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

Jerry, we miss ye...

[MrScorpio]

11. A great One: Dracula!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNizx6ABTEg

[leeroysphitz]

12. Sorry but fuck all this nonsense. The first 12 minutes of 2004's Dawn Of the Dead.

Virtuoso. Incomparable. Forget about it.

[MrScorpio]

13. I posted the Johnny Cash part in another thread

This puppy is badass

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. "Jaws", baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roT_QbP58Ok

[sammythecat]

37. That gave me goosebumps the size of golf balls.

I remember going to see it that summer. With all the hype we were really prepared for a good scary movie and that opening really delivered. I was exhausted less than 2 minutes into the movie.

[stuntcat]

51. that's some sweet sweetness right there

:headbang: :loveya:

[MonkeyFunk]

20. This one's cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nn1VO1HIPk


Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil

[Westegg]

49. One of the BEST!...

...Damn, Welles was a genius. His battles with the studios over the years were a tragic travesty.

I remember interviewing Charlton Heston when this restored version of "Touch of Evil" was released, sometime in the late '90s, as I recall. Heston was an amazing presence in person-- real Old Hollywood star aura. I didn't agree with him politically, but that's showbiz. Anyway, the movie was shot largely in Venice, just south of Santa Monica. I asked Heston, who lived in Beverly Hills, how he thought Venice had changed from the '50s to the '90s. He said, "I don't know. I haven't been there in 30 years."

[Ptah]

21. All That Jazz

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pNFryicvxeE

Chicago (2002)

[momophile]

22. I believe in the Church of Baseball.

Bull Durham opening monologue is damn cool:

"I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250... not unless he had a lot of RBIs and was a great glove man up the middle. You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds. Sometimes when I've got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him, and the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. 'Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay. I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe, and pretty. 'Course, what I give them lasts a lifetime; what they give me lasts 142 games. Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball - now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God's sake? It's a long season and you gotta trust. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball."

[Jade Fox]

23. Better than the movie....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEgK3nCkao

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters' intro is classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdP_LnA6bwg

[Dr. Strange]

42. Oh dear Lord...

If I see you videotaping this movie,
Satan will rain down your throat with hot acid
and dissolve your testicles
and turn your guts into snakes.

That needs to be a sigline!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

54. I think the whole song needs to be played before every movie ever.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

25. Not even a contest. BETTER than Best opening to a movie EVER!

Salton Sea
White Nights

[Forkboy]

32. That's a lie!

:evilgrin:

[asteroid2003QQ47]

34. Forkboy's comfortably deluded!

Eat your heart out, Forkboy! ;)

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
--Edward Abbey

[Forkboy]

48. You win this round.

But only because you broke out an Abbey quote. :D

[Jade Fox]

26. Sentimental favorite: The Parent Trap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBu8GhEHx8

[bigwillq]

28. Scream

The first one had a pretty good opening.

[bigwillq]

29. Halloween (nt)

[raouldukelives]

30. The Third Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9fqm6rUPY

[Alexander]

31. The Manchurian Candidate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTMdbaNnh0

[Hangingon]

33. Twelve O'Clock High

[Skittles]

35. Harold and Maude - yes INDEED n/t

[fight4my3sons]

41. agreed! n/t

[Enrique]

38. Naked Gun 33 1/3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaGLZEdYDGU

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. You can never go wrong with OJ Simpson spiking babies n/t

[YankeyMCC]

39. The Two Towers

Gandalf fighting the Balrog as they plummet to the roots of the mountain.

[Brigid]

40. I love "Lord of War!"

I'll second that one. :)

[Orsino]

43. Best entrance EVAR!

Johnny Depp in the opening to the first Pirates of the Caribbean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOCTiCR_Pj8

[Brigid]

56. Oh, yes!

No one could forget that one! :rofl:

[turner52]

44. 2001

I like the "Dawn of Man" sequence of that movie....second choice would be the first 10 minutes of "The Sting"

[unpossibles]

50. Velvet Goldmine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=imNRk8wLaKI

[Wetzelbill]

52. Happy Gilmore and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Here is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGIelcG0r3s

[bixente]

53. The Castle of Cagliostro

The title sequence has lovely music and is accompanied with some stylish imagery. Also the car chase scene shortly afterwards is rather memorable.

[nytemare]

57. "Contact"

Lets me know how small I really am.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQF-4uyD4Y