What is the best movie based on its opening?
Not the whole thing.
Opening credits included, what movie is best based on its first 15 minutes?
What is the best movie based on its opening?
Not the whole thing.
Opening credits included, what movie is best based on its first 15 minutes?
^^^throw in another 5 minutes for good measure and you’re hooked.
The first 15 minutes of The Graduate is pretty great.
2001, of course.
Saving Private Ryan
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Jaws. Also the best movie in total.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
The Apartment. One of the most perfect scripts ever written and economically sets up everything that will be paid off within the first 15 minutes.
"Up" at #1.
Then Raiders and The Wizard of Oz.
You're not going to like my answer.
CITIZEN KANE.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The Club Obi-Wan stuff is one great movie opening.
Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Once Upon a Time in the West.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.
Freddy Got Fingered.
Yes, but the one long tracking shot is only about four minutes after that you're into Charlton Heston playing a Mexican.
In the first fifteen minutes, CITIZEN KANE doesn't just have the trespassing sequence--loaded with semiotic meanings--but I believe you're into the "News on the March" montage before time is up. That's another tour de force of film making since they had to use a combination of found footage and faked documentary footage--and that sets up the whole story to follow as Thompson is set on his quest to find a new angle for the newsreel.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!