ya, out of all the movie out there, what is the one that you like? i like the forest gump intro and the footloose intro.
I'd say "Vertigo" and "Psycho", those are pretty good. Both created by Saul Bass, aren't they?
Boogie Nights :-D
8 1/2, touch of evil
texas chainsaw massacre
i also really love the intro of leaving las vegas, that its like 15 minutes before you get the opening credits
i must say the opening to minority report is pretty riveting-- saving private ryan as well.
Gotta go with Trainspotting (great song, great monologue, etc.), Amelie (you knew it was going to be an excellent movie from the very beginning) and both the prologue and one sequences in Magnolia.
peeping tom
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because one can never get enough of first person perspective.
i'm fond of magnolia's opening sequence. really, I like any movie with more than seven minutes of prologue before the titles roll.
Intros give me the chills,
especially
Magnolia
the opening sequence to requiem for a dream. i love how it just starts off right away with a bang. as darren aronofsky mentions on the commentary, you could never start off a hollywood movie like that.
8 1/2 is probably the best intro put to film.
Others I am fond of...
To Kill a Mocking Bird
A Hard Day's Night
Royal Tenenbaums
Brazil
La Dolce Vita
Magnolia
Goodfellas
The cab and smoke intro to Taxi Driver
Through the brain intro to Fight Club
Slow motion "dance" in the ring intro to Raging Bull
Fargo
Jackie Brown
"Scream"
"Jerry Maguire"
"The Godfather" - "I believe in America" speech
"Apocalypse Now"
Character intros in "Mean Streets"
"JFK"
"Citizen Kane" - News On The March opening
"The Grifters" (the tri-screen opening of each char. doing their grift)
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Definitely, there is nobody on earth who can say that the beginning of that isnt fucking awesome. Even if its a bit corny, if you say that didnt effect you, then your a pretentious film snob.
Boogie Nights
Touch of Evil
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
From Dusk Til Dawn
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Saving Private Ryan has an opening that is better than the rest of the film and is prolly one of the best filmed sequences in history. Just wanted to say that one, though I am going with 8 1/2 as best.
~rougerum
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amen, brother.
2001
Casino
Royal Tenenbaums
BN, Magnolia, PDL
Heaven
I was about to say that almost any Kubrick film but P already did, isn't the aerial sequence of The Shining one of the best ever? Did you know that SK initially hired a different company to do those shots, he didn't like the result so he hired another one, with magnificent results; I might add that the ending sequence of Blade Runner was taken from the same footage of SK's team, only that that sequence was never considered in the final cut of TS.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels for best filmed opening.
I was very impressed with Catch Me If You Can's title intro. Really cool stuff.
Magnolia
GoodFellas
Jerry Maguire
JFK
The Godfather
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Raising Arizona
if someone hasn't mentioned it already -- THE PLAYER & THE CONVERSATION.
i really like the opening shot to carnal knowledge.
Ed Wood's opening scene (with the credits, criswell/jeffrey jones, etc.) is fucking great.
The first 10 minutes of Raising Arizona (before the title sequence) could be a short film w/in itself.
my favorite intro of all time (at the moment :wink: ) is:
The Godfather
1) 8 1/2
2) Boogie Nights
3) Fight Club ?
not mentioned:
28 days later
in the bedroom
rules of attraction
schizopolis
narc
natural born killers
irreversible...
In addition to those I already posted:
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (can't think of any more iconic)
* Been quite a while since I saw any of them, but when the Bond intros are any good at all, they're usualy great.
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
* Fellowship of the Ring
* And even though it's been mentioned countless other times: Magnolia
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail (the moose titles)
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Pulp Fiction
* Star Wars
The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Not one word spoken in 10 1/2 minutes.
amen to that, fucking great
the opening to HELP! is quite funny i think
and a very fun and nice to look at opening would be that of The Cheerleaders
Reservoir Dogs
Fight Club
The puppet dance in BJM
The all insert and ECU opening of Leon
The opening speech in Roger Dodger
The waking up on a cliff in Donnie Darko
The video in American Beauty
The people mover in The Graduate
The freeze frame on tie throw and title card in Out of Sight
The opening speech in Annie Hall
The long ass opening of Rules of Attraction
I could keep going
Kaufman's little speech to open Adaptation is great