Best beginning to a movie

[ZeroEffect]

my brother once told me the thing he likes best about a movie is the beginning.
All movies are different, but most run for a few minutes before showing the advance
credits - Director, Actors, Name of the Movie.

So what's your favorite?

Reservoir Dogs has a great beginning. Quentin's take on Madonna's "Like a Virgin"
is just too funny. And Mr. Pink's (Steve Buscemi) aversion to tipping cracks me up
every time. And then they go to black and Stephen Wright's voice over the music
is excellent.

From Dusk 'til Dawn has an excellent intro too, but i won't go in to details

so what's yours?

 

[21Jumper]

Star Wars. That Star Destroyer just keeps on coming...and coming...and still coming....

 

[HappyFace]

Gotta love the beginning of Swordfish, in which the Swat team pulls a hostage beyond the range of the automatic detinator and boooooooooom! :Q

 

[911paramedic]

Get Shorty of course

That is the best intro of all time, too funny, great music.

 

[Spooner]

A Tarentino fun, huh? I love his movies.....

Anyway, all Bond movies have a pretty cool beginning.

You know what DOESN'T have a good beginning, middle, or end? The movie Zero Effect.

should take the into consideration

 

[sciencetoy]

Gotta give mention to the Bond movies.

 

[pyonir]

definately "Goodfellas"

Ever since I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster

LOVE IT

 

[BigJohnKC]

Okay, someone has to say it....the beginning of "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings" is one of my favorite movie beginnings of all time. I love the battle scene...and Sauron totally rocked!

 

[Doggiedog]

Saving Private Ryan

 

[conjur]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 

[datalink7]

Not the best, but Memento had a pretty good beginning.

 

[SaltBoy]

Contact.

Simply breathtaking!

 

[fatalbert]

<< Monty Python and the Holy Grail >>



i was gonna say that

 

[NeoMadHatter]

come on now, GLADIATOR! the battle scene at the beginning.

 

[Rallispec]

The Matrix - the first fight scene with trinity

 

[Captain4]

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Love the music!

 

[ViperXX]

Gladiator-On my signal unleash hell.

 

[conjur]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (the, okay, I'm going to misspell this, Kobiashi Maru scene)

And what's with all this praise for Gladiator? Way overrated and Russell Crowe got the Oscar for that only as a makeup call for not giving it to him for The Insider.

 

[Nemesis77]

My list (not in any particular order)

2001: A space odyssey (20 minutes without dialogue! It's different! I love it!)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (The only movie whose opening-credits only are better than most other movies as a whole)

Bond-movies in general

 

[jjones]

without a doubt, Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".

 

[Kadarin]

Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension - You just cannot beat the music to this one as they're prepping the jet car!

 

[777joee]

All time favorite is:



Close Encounters of the Third Kind.


It starts with a black screen and a little sound for about 30 sec. and then BANG it is full of sound and a white screen that drops you into a sandstorm in the middle of the desert.

It sure wakes you up!

 

[OrByte]

Ferris Bueller's Day off.



Everything and everyone involved with that movie rocked!!

 

[swai]

some that i like..

Charlie's Angels - LL Cool J!
Romeo Must Die - i just love that DMX song, really sets the mood

 

[TerryMathews]

Gone in 60 seconds.

"Hold on, I have to go get my tool."
"That's not a tool, that's a damn brick!"
CRASH!
"Get the keys."