Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
Bond: Goldeneye
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Italian Job, The (2003)
Killer, The
Kindergarten Cop, The
Last Action Hero
League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Running Man, The
Street Fighter
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Timecop
Tomb Raider
Tombstone
Walking Tall (remake)
X-Men
Flubber
Not Another Teen Movie
Nutty Professor, The (new version)
Shrek
Shrek 2
Spaceballs
Undercover Brother
Brady Bunch Movie, The
Very Brady Sequel, A
Wayne’s World 2
Zoolander
Open Your Eyes
Romeo and Juliet (new version)
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
Ernest Scared Stupid
Hannibal
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I want to know the very first few scenes that open each film, b/c I’m finishing up a list of the best opening scenes I know of. Thanks in advance.
oh yeah, Not Another Teen Movie: The girl is in her room watching “She’s All That” when she pulls out a vibrator. Then comes in her family, priest etc.
Tombstone opens with a voiceover explaining how Wyatt and Doc got to Tombstone and the origin of the Cowboys while showing some sepia tone old timey footage of wild west stuff. I don’t know about cool openings, I think this is the worst part of an excellent film.
I’m not sure how good my memory is, but I think Last Action Hero opens with Arnold Schwarezenegger on the roof of a building on a rainy night, the movie villain holding his kid hostage. The scene plays out for a couple minutes (and maybe ends?) when the movie backs out to show it’s just a movie within the movie, and the main character kid is just watching it in the theater.
Actually on second thought, it might begin with Arnold entering the building. Either way, I’m 90% sure the opening is the climax of the movie within the movie.
Seven Samurai:
Bad guys on horseback approach town, decide to wait until the harvest comes before they raid it for real. Bad guys ride off. Scared villagers have a sort of public meeting in the middle of the village, trying to decide what to do about the raiders. They consult an old man, who advises them to hire some samurai to protect the village.
If this is not an impertinent question, if you don’t remember what happens at the beginning of these films, then why have you picked them as the best openings ever? :dubious:
The Italian Job - The movie opens with the credits; cuts between scenes of Canals in Venice, with scenes of the blueprints for the robbery, and Mark Wahlberg studying the plans. The first scene of the movie is Charlize Theron’s character getting a phone call from her father, played by Donald Sutherland. Not much of a scene, except for Theron in her jammies.
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman - Opens with some expositionary text explaining it’s 1899 and modern military technology doesn’t exist. Then a bunch of British policemen are confronted by a tank being used to rob a bank.
In order to make the list, I thought of the opening of every movie I’ve ever seen, which I have a list of. Maybe 40, however, I don’t remember the exact openings for, and IMDB only answered a few, so the rest I post for you to answer.
My list of these best openings can be found in my posts to ‘Greatest opening scenes in movies’, link here, here, here, and here.
I Know What You Did Last Summer - Opens with credits. A long helicopter shot along a shoreline that finally closes in on Freddy Prinze’s character sitting on a cliffside.
By coincidence, the only two I can answer both open on a screen within a screen.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid begins with a silent, sepia-tone film about the Hole in the Wall Gang, which plays while the credits roll. This is followed by the caption “Most of what follows is true.” Next, still in sepia, we see Butch in a bank (“What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful!” “People kept robbing it.” “A small price to pay for beauty.”) and Sundance in a card game, accused of cheating.
Romeo & Juliet opens on a TV screen, with a newscaster reading the original prologue.
I should, I think, remember more of these, but I don’t. So, here’s how I recall the opening scene of “The Running Man”:
The scene opens with a helicopter flying over Bakersfield at night. There appears to be a mob of some kind on the street. Inside the chopper, we find Arnold, apparently in charge of a crew of miscellaneous grunts. A voice on the radio indicates that there’s a food riot in progress. Arnie reports that the rioters appear to be unarmed, but is ordered to open fire on them anyway. An argument ensues, the only snippets of which I recall are a couple of lines from Arnie: “All they want is food, for God’s sake.” and “I will not open fire on unarmed people.” His team is ordered to subdue him and proceed with the mission, which they do. Later scenes make it clear that the government blamed the massacre on him.
Concerning “X-Men”: While the first actual scene is the one Filmgeek mentioned–which did a marvelous job of setting up Magneto’s character, IMHO–there is a brief voiceover by Patrick Stewart during the opening about mutation and its role in evolution, delivered over a dive-through-the-DNA graphics sequence. Since I know people who would happily sit and listen to Stewart read the phone book, I thought it worth mentioning.
Goldeneye begins with this white circle moving across the screen, then it moves the other way and this time it’s got a guy walking across wearing a tuxedo…
Okay. It starts with Bond running across a dam in the mountains. He goes out on a little overhang and attaches a bungee cord and then leaps off. At the bottom, he shoots out a cable that anchors into the concrete to keep himself from springing back up again. This is all so he could sneak into some facility, meet up with another agent and blow the place up.
Tomorrow Never Dies: M and her American counterpart are watching images of a Russian arms bazaar, through a camera being weilded by 007. The American decides that he’s seen enough, and decides to launch a cruise missile at the bazaar, which should result in the death of a good chunk of the world’s terrorists. Bond then shows an image of a Russian plane armed with nukes, which would obviously explode to disasterous effect if the bazaar site were to be hit by the cruise missile (which the Americans are no longer able to abort). Bond prevents this by grabbing the nuke-bearing plane and flying it away from the destruction zone.
