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Best Opening Credits/Scene to a Film (Movie)

mr_goomr_goo Posts: 3,770
edited February 2019 in The cake stop
It has to combine cinematography and score. Bonus points for graphics.

'Zombieland'. Just a great match up of slow mo' graphic horror, graphics plus an awesome Metallica track For Whom the Bell Tolls. It all works for me.
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  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,957
    Up.
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  • me-109me-109 Posts: 1,782
    Once Upon a Time in the West
  • crispybug2crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Goodfellas


    Nothing else comes close
  • Harry182Harry182 Posts: 1,168
    Donnie Darko original cinema release version with “Killing Moon”.
  • eric_draveneric_draven Posts: 1,192
    Full Metal Jacket,in the barbers,faceing up to the grim reality you were going to war wether you volunteered or not
  • jgsijgsi Posts: 5,042
    Brilliant Mr Welles
    https://youtu.be/Yg8MqjoFvy4.
  • john_klinejohn_kline Posts: 2,151
    Trainspotting
  • MatthewfalleMatthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Top Gun. best opening sequence ever.

    https://youtu.be/DRv2cVF0CdM

    end of thread.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,065
    Saving Private Ryan. 20 minutes of pure unglamourised, unapologetic horror.

    On a lighter note. I think the first 20 minutes of Scream are a really clever contrast to what the movie becomes. Sets the scene as a genuine slasher horror movie which gradually unravels as it becomes more comedic.
  • mrfpbmrfpb Posts: 4,567
    Thwok, thwok , thwok

    Beautiful Forest Scene fades in

    The Doors "The End" begins to play

    Forest bursts into flames

    Apocalypse Now has begun
  • lettingthedaysgobylettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Star Wars. John Williams opening fanfare, the crawl, music calms down over a slow pan to a quiet looking planet then AN ABSOLUTLEY MASSIVE SPACESHIP COMING OVER MY HEAD SHOOTING FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS.

    Blew my mind when I was a kid, still does today.
  • capt_slogcapt_slog Posts: 3,872
    JGSI wrote:
    Brilliant Mr Welles
    https://youtu.be/Yg8MqjoFvy4.

    Clever on so many levels.


    @the OP.
    There's another zombie film, is it the one where they hole up in the mall? It starts with an aerial shot following a car, and there all this carnage cracking off, crashes happening etc.


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  • ayjayceeayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    MF might just have nailed it with Top Gun. I actually spent a bit of time on the USS John F Kennedy during Op Granby / Desert Storm and was almost constantly in awe during the whole time on board.
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  • DeVlaeminckDeVlaeminck Posts: 8,464
    Apocalypse now is a good shout. I like Quadrophenia too - the quiet start with Jimmy walking away from the cliff edge silhouetted against the sea and sky then as The Who's The Real Me kicks in straight into him riding his Lambretta through London.
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  • mrfpbmrfpb Posts: 4,567
    From "This is the Universe. Big, isn't it?" to the moment David Niven bails out his burning plane without a parachute and Kim Hunter breaks down in tears. The opening of "A Matter of Life and Death" is a masterclass in portraying Brit understatement as humour and heroism. Powell and Pressburger's finest moment.
  • MatthewfalleMatthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    ayjaycee wrote:
    MF might just have nailed it with Top Gun. I actually spent a bit of time on the USS John F Kennedy during Op Granby / Desert Storm and was almost constantly in awe during the whole time on board.

    this.

    if i had my time again i would do everything i could do be on a big carrier: only problem is i would be in awe of everything all the time and constantly trip over myself.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 14,638
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Star Wars. John Williams opening fanfare, the crawl, music calms down over a slow pan to a quiet looking planet then AN ABSOLUTLEY MASSIVE SPACESHIP COMING OVER MY HEAD SHOOTING FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS.

    Blew my mind when I was a kid, still does today.
    Though I've not seen the film, that opening fanfare features the legendary Maurice Murphy. It was recorded in one take by the London Symphony Orchestra, after playing it just once through. And it was pretty much Murphy's first day in post, I think. After that, the composer (John Williams) insisted that Murphy would be the lead trumpet on all his film scores.
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  • MatthewfalleMatthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    edited December 2018
    no - you're (apart from ajaycee who is a genius) all wrong.

    Its Top Gun.

    with the cannonball run running up there for brining an instant smile to your face.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • evil_breakfastevil_breakfast Posts: 424
    Blade Runner.
    The Hades landscape accompanied by the Vangelis score.
    Stunning.
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  • mrb123mrb123 Posts: 4,214
    The opening scenes of The Shining are stunning as the car drives through incredible landscape, that foreboding soundtrack lending an air of menace.
  • rolf_frolf_f Posts: 16,015
    mrfpb wrote:
    From "This is the Universe. Big, isn't it?" to the moment David Niven bails out his burning plane without a parachute and Kim Hunter breaks down in tears. The opening of "A Matter of Life and Death" is a masterclass in portraying Brit understatement as humour and heroism. Powell and Pressburger's finest moment.

    Quality choice. But then that film is terrific all the way through......
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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    edited December 2018
    2001 A Space Odyssey

    (the full, 10min introduction including the bone/spaceship edit)
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  • joe_totale-2joe_totale-2 Posts: 1,333
    Once upon a time in the West, perfect use of sound and those lovely wide shots.
  • laurentianlaurentian Posts: 2,237
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Goodfellas


    Nothing else comes close

    Is the correct answer
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  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 54,616
    edited December 2018
    Terminator 2:
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  • MatthewfalleMatthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    laurentian wrote:
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Top Gun


    Nothing else comes close

    Is the correct answer


    agree 100%
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • john_klinejohn_kline Posts: 2,151
    Soylent Green
  • BelgianBeerGeekBelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    The Long Good Friday
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  • tailwindhometailwindhome Posts: 18,371
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
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  • crispybug2crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    The Long Good Friday


    If we were choosing the best closing scene then you would probably be correct
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