Greatest opening few scenes of a film

Two come to mind immediately:

Fight Club, like JRS said. Fantastic Sequence. Fincher on a role! Great movie, by the way!

And...

Resevoir Dogs. The "Like a virgin"-sequence is utterly brilliant!

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Yeah, that one is cool.

Raiders of the Lost Ark also comes to mind.

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Terminator 2 Judgment Day

You see ordinary people living in any ordinary city. Life seems happy. There's traffic in the highway like always. Next thing you know, a nuclear explosion has destroyed everything. Every living thing has been destroyed. The traffic is still traffic. But traffic that will never move again.

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Blade Runner - The cityscape (no computers used here folks) with the reflection of flame on the eyeball.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - Just fell in love with this film again after getting the DVD set.

Contact - Following the radio waves out into space and beyond. Subtle and Wonderful. Small moves Ellie.

Blue Velvet - Small town America uncovered at last.

Saving Private Ryan - A thousand shades of death.

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I love the dance sequence at the beginning of Mulholland Drive.

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I definitely like the X2 opening. IMO best action sequence of 2003. (sorry Matrix, not even close).

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X2 is one of the greatest alright. I'm watching Narc right now, and it has an intense opening segment. Wow.

I forgot about Narc! Great opening sequence.

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Cube. The guy crumbled like a cartoon character
Jaws
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Frankenstein (1994)
Star Wars
Swordfish--AWESOME!!

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one of the most RECENT memorable beginnings I would have to say would be American Beauty. Less then five minutes into the movie you see kevin spacy jerking off in the shower.

I really like the opening sequence to swordfish.

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I loved the opening to Ghost Ship, where about 100 people were sliced in half by a wire.

Billy Wilder makes wonderful opening sequences...

Irma La Douce
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity

...all fantastic.

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I think the begining of Jaws pretty much did it for me.

Hi im new here. My favourate start to a film is in Goodfella's.

The Crow has a realy good opening sequence, and it like my favorate film ever

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One of my favorite openings is in Get Shorty in the part where Travolta goes to get his coat back, and just smoothly and calmly knocks on the door, punches Dennis Farina in the nose, grabs the coat, and walks out. Great part.

The opening battle of Glory is awesome.

Also, in Ice Age the Scrat part was very fun.

Last one, in L.A. Confidential, Danny DeVito's voice over is great.

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although it was a freaky kind of movie, i think "sunset boulevard" has a great beginning

Phone Booth Interesting intro unique I would say!!!

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"Resident Evil 2:Apocolypse" Mila Jovavich
"Phone Booth" Colin Ferrel, Keifer Sutherland (2003)
"Pay it Forward" Haley Joel Osmond, Helen Hunt(2000)
"American Wedding" Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan(2003)
"Dogma" Ben Affleck, Matt Damon(1999)
"LOTR" 1,2 & 3 Vigo Mortenison, Elijah Wood (2002-2003)
"Thirteen" Holly Hunter, Nikkie Reed (2004)