Best movie intros

[ballpoint]

The opening scene, and the one that immediately follows it, from Saving Private Ryan are both very powerful, in very different ways...

 

 

[Phoenix Rising]

Star Wars (the original), a number of James Bond movies.

[Caspersfriend]

C'mon guys: this country may be heading for hell in a hand-basket chill out:

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Caspersfriend
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[A Los for words]

Apocalypse Now

[Caspersfriend]

3 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Star Wars (the original), a number of James Bond movies.

Are you shy?

 

Can't agree or disagree with your choices until you post some [readily available] vids

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, Caspersfriend said:

Are you shy?

 

Can't agree or disagree with your choices until you post some [readily available] vids

Sorry.

 

 

[Caspersfriend]

2 minutes ago, A Los for words said:

Apocalypse Now

Maybe you are lost for words [yeh I get the LOS] but surely you can access YouTube

[2 is 1]

 

[2 is 1]

Actualy was most funny movie ever!

 

 

[Caspersfriend]

While we are isolated, or self-isolated, in lock-down many of us see movies as a distraction.

 

Personally, I love the movie experience. The big screen and sound system is what the producers of a movie created. Alas, times have changed and, like shopping, there is a 'new normal'. The streaming version of a movie is often still based on the theater mode -- unless you have a mega-watts home-theater system you will need to have the volume control handy. 

[Caspersfriend]

37 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

Pulp Fiction, the Honey Bunny scene.

 

Reservoir Dogs, the restaurant scene.

Agree, but without much effort you can find a YouTube link

[Caspersfriend]

35 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Star Wars (the original), a number of James Bond movies.

Why no links? When the multicultural audience on the forum can appreciate your suggestions.

[canthai55]

 

[Caspersfriend]

4 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

 

But then J@J invented talcum powder and then ................................................

[Caspersfriend]

52 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

The opening seconds of "Where Eagles Dare" as the aircraft comes over the ridge in the Alps - really only works on the big screen...

 

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy."

Link is available

[1FinickyOne]

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The introduction to Woody Allen's Manhattan is sublime.

Was that the one w/Gershwin playing while he panned the skyline? and he was trying to find an opening line - 

 

If so, quite an intro as I remember it from all those years ago - - 

 

If not, never mind... 

[Captain Monday]

Opening scene- Apocalypse Now

 

Trailer - Pink Flamingos. I was too young. Ran out of the theatre and almost puked.

[Caspersfriend]

 

[Caspersfriend]

1 minute ago, Captain Monday said:

Opening scene- Apocalypse Now

 

Trailer - Pink Flamingos. I was too young. Ran out of the theatre and almost puked.

Do you have a video record of that?

[Airalee]

1 hour ago, Caspersfriend said:

Just showed up from your original post for me .. maybe 3BB problem .. nothing new. Inspiring music but tells us nothing about the [great] movie.

I think it would be impossible to grasp the underlying theme/message of Fight Club and the Matrix (another of my favorite films) with an into or even a trailer.  Most people I know, even after watching both of the aforementioned films, don’t even get it.  For example, how could you explain the significance of red/blue pill scene of The Matrix or Morpheus’ quote from the movie….

 

“The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown... What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this {showing a battery}.”

 

Most people would view these films only as action movies and little more than that.  I have watched both movies multiple times with many different friends and most of them, at the end of the movie, don’t really get it.  But both of the movies are incredible commentaries about society.
 

Red Pill vs Blue Pill….

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Airalee

[gk10012001]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Caspersfriend]

 

 

[Caspersfriend]

 

 

[gk10012001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

 

Idiocracy.  Top ten

 

[Thujone]

Some great intros on here.

The Saving Private Ryan battle scene is stunning.

The Matirix opening scene is excellent, notable because it took six months of training and four days to shoot.

Here's another great intro, which takes the viewer by surprise when the credits come up. It's easy to forget that this is the intro.

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Thujone

[Caspersfriend]

5 minutes ago, gk10012001 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

 

Idiocracy.  Top ten

 

I feel you

[Airalee]

7 minutes ago, gk10012001 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

 

Idiocracy.  Top ten

 

It was quite prophetic.  Excellent movie.

[Airalee]

Happiness (1998).  A dark, dark comedy

 

 

[mtls2005]

"Touch of Evil"

 

1958. Directed by Orson Wells.

 

Opening shot is legendary.

 

 

 

 

 

[Caspersfriend]

33 minutes ago, Airalee said:

I think it would be impossible to grasp the underlying theme/message of Fight Club and the Matrix (another of my favorite films) with an into or even a trailer.  Most people I know, even after watching both of the aforementioned films, don’t even get it.  For example, how could you explain the significance of red/blue pill scene of The Matrix or Morpheus’ quote from the movie….

 

“The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown... What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this {showing a battery}.”

 

Most people would view these films only as action movies and little more than that.  I have watched both movies multiple times with many different friends and most of them, at the end of the movie, don’t really get it.  But both of the movies are incredible commentaries about society.
 

Red Pill vs Blue Pill….

 

 

 

Which would be your pill of choice? If any.