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?
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09-08-2021, 07:16 PM #1Boisterously Confused
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You have 15 minutes. The best movie is...?
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09-08-2021, 07:30 PM #2Ultimate Member
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^^^throw in another 5 minutes for good measure and you’re hooked.
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09-08-2021, 07:31 PM #3Invincible Member
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The first 15 minutes of The Graduate is pretty great.
2001, of course.
Saving Private RyanThere 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!
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09-08-2021, 07:44 PM #4Loony
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Jaws. Also the best movie in total.
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09-08-2021, 08:43 PM #5Invincible Member
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The Proposition
Hands down...
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09-08-2021, 09:12 PM #6Mighty Member
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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.
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09-09-2021, 05:41 AM #7Astonishing Member
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"Up" at #1.
Then Raiders and The Wizard of Oz.
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09-09-2021, 07:03 AM #8Retired
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You're not going to like my answer.
CITIZEN KANE.
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09-09-2021, 07:26 AM #9Not a Newbie Member
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The Club Obi-Wan stuff is one great movie opening.
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09-09-2021, 08:08 AM #10Invincible Member
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Why? Fantastic opening.
Originally Posted by Jim Kelly
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!
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09-09-2021, 08:13 AM #11Invincible Member
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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!
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09-09-2021, 09:52 AM #12Mighty Member
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As far as openings are concerned I'd prefer Touch of Evil. Originally Posted by Jim Kelly
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.
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09-09-2021, 09:53 AM #13Mighty Member
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Freddy Got Fingered.
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09-09-2021, 11:52 AM #14Retired
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Yes, but the one long tracking shot is only about four minutes after that you're into Charlton Heston playing a Mexican. Originally Posted by chicago_bastard
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.
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09-09-2021, 11:53 AM #15Invincible Member
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That is a great one! Maybe the best. Originally Posted by chicago_bastard
But Jim makes a good point.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!
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