# Fast forwarding past the opening filler (probably lots of open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003 "2007-07-08T23:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/1 "2007-07-08T23:55:04Z")
Share a movie that you enjoy seeing repeatedly but usually fast forward to a certain scene or moment where you’ll begin. In most movies, I guess, the first part is orientation and character development. Unless that part itself is really really good (as with Goldie Hawn in _Overboard_), I like to move on to where the fun part begins. I do this, for example, with _Ghost_. I fast forward to the scene where he first encounters and contacts Oda Mae Brown at her seance. Whoopi Goldberg honestly steals the show in this movie. Another one for me is _Star Trek IV_, which I fast forward until they’re ready to land in the park in San Francisco. _Pretty Woman_ is one that I take waaaaaay forward to where she’s in the office with the innkeeper. Now, I don’t do this with every movie. I’ll watch _Groundhog Day_ from the very first scene with Phil at the blue screen because frankly, that’s a really good scene. Also, _Rudy_. I like how the movie opens. What are some of yours? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/2 "2007-07-09T04:42:59Z")
I very rarely do this, but I do skip the opening narration of _Dark City_. Even after having seen the movie umpteen times, that shit annoys me. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/3 "2007-07-09T04:48:35Z")
I skip the newsreel in Citizen Kane. Yeah, I know, but come on. Do I _really_ need to see it again? I acknowledge the exposition; might as well just get on with it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/4 "2007-07-09T05:04:23Z")
Skinamax movies typically start with a sex scene or naked dancing to prevent exactly this sort of unseemly behavior! They’re onto you, boys. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/5 "2007-07-09T05:56:31Z")
In _Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban_ I usually skip to the scene with Arthur & Harry just prior to when the trio leaves on the Hogwarts Express. Thereby missing the standard Dursleys-torturing-Harry bit, the Knight’s Bus ride, and the endless Monster Book of Monsters and getting straight to the important stuff: the introductions of Sirius Black and (in the train) Remus Lupin. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/6 "2007-07-09T06:06:33Z")
I tend to skip the scenes with the Dursleys in the first 3 Harry Potter movies. They finally omitted the Dursleys entirely from _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_, for which I was grateful. I won’t be able to skip the scenes with the Dursleys in the upcoming _Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_, since they are necessary to advance the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-forwarding-past-the-opening-filler-probably-lots-of-open-spoilers/411003/7 "2007-07-09T13:58:34Z")
I skip straight to the rock-throwing contest in _Braveheart_ every time. I’ve seen the developmental scenes before that enough times to quote them.