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#1  Postby I'm With Stupid » Mar 14, 2011 7:41 pm

I was just reading this blog entry on Yahoo, so I thought I'd ask the question.

Their list:

The Naked Gun
A Hard Day's Night
Touch of Evil
Goldfinger
Se7en
Vertigo
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Pink Panther
Halloween
Watchmen
Shaft
Alien
Lord of War
Enter The Void


What's on yours?

Personally, I love the intro to Dancer in the Dark, Star Wars and Weekend (rest of the film's shit though).
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#2  Postby j.mills » Mar 14, 2011 9:33 pm

Watchmen was the first one that sprang to mind. Juno too: the gal swigging down litres of Sunny-D as she bumbles along.
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#3  Postby amused » Mar 15, 2011 2:12 am

The Shining
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#4  Postby Bribase » Mar 15, 2011 2:23 am

Fight Club

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Cube

The Andromeda Strain

Ghost in The Shell

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#5  Postby I'm With Stupid » Mar 15, 2011 8:57 pm

I really like the beginning to Casino Royale too.

Oh, and how could I forget Blade Runner?
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#6  Postby dalv8409 » Mar 18, 2011 3:56 pm

Superman
Batman
The Mummy
The Thing (the use of the same logo from the 1950s version was a nice touch)
Jaws
X-Men
X-Men 2
Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
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#7  Postby HughMcB » Mar 18, 2011 4:44 pm

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#8  Postby Geistkämpfer » Mar 26, 2011 11:48 am

Life of Brian
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#9  Postby Mike_L » Mar 26, 2011 12:13 pm

The opening sequence of Octopussy (1983) was better than anything in the remainder of the movie....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-6ZeTE0igM[/youtube]

Other fine Bond-movie opening sequences:

* The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
* Moonraker (1979)
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#10  Postby z8000783 » Mar 26, 2011 12:57 pm

Best ever

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW-jSa9_k3M[/youtube]

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#11  Postby I'm With Stupid » Mar 26, 2011 4:23 pm

z8000783 wrote:Best ever

How could I forget that one?
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#12  Postby mraltair » Mar 26, 2011 4:30 pm

z8000783 wrote:Best ever

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW-jSa9_k3M[/youtube]

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#13  Postby natselrox » Mar 26, 2011 4:39 pm

The opening sequence of 'Up' (the animated movie) is kinda cute!
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#14  Postby Mac_Guffin » Mar 26, 2011 4:48 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_DjzN8410[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anvRFJFUnRE[/youtube]
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#15  Postby SafeAsMilk » Mar 26, 2011 6:27 pm

I saw Touch Of Evil up there :thumbup:
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#16  Postby Precambrian Rabbi » Mar 26, 2011 6:28 pm

I think Pulp Fiction does a pretty good job of getting you up for it. "Any of you fucking pricks move..." So much in the general conscience now it's easy to forget how great it was first time round.

And, for *ahem* entirely different reasons, the opening of Barbarella has stuck with me since my early youth.
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#17  Postby Bribase » Sep 06, 2011 10:44 pm

For a bit of vintage appeal, Beat Girl: Wild For Kicks.

She is so fucking cool!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnigsDtAW0g[/youtube]
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#18  Postby Weaver » Sep 06, 2011 10:50 pm

Though filled with technical errors, the intro scene of Space Cowboys is great.

Saving Private Ryan has to be one of the finest intro scenes (both the bit at the Normandy cemetery, and the next scene at Omaha Beach) ever filmed, IMO. Within 10 minutes I was trembling with adrenaline and my wife was crying. Stunning.
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#19  Postby Animavore » Sep 06, 2011 10:59 pm

This was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCFYceDGkM[/youtube]

Though I see Bond already has mentions.
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#20  Postby Nostalgia » Sep 06, 2011 11:15 pm

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