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[master15]

Since someone has already mentioned 2001 my vote goes to Casino. Okay the opening contains a glaring error with a dummy (Still can't believe Scorsese and Thelma, didn't pick it up) but still mix of Mathaus Passion blaring through the fantastic opening credits and the intercut voice-over narration by both De Niro and Pecsi. Absolutely fantastic, along with a beautiful sweeping shot over Vegas.


Casino

 

[Buttchin]

Since someone has already mentioned 2001 my vote goes to Casino. Okay the opening contains a glaring error with a dummy (Still can't believe Scorsese and Thelma, didn't pick it up) but still mix of Mathaus Passion blaring through the fantastic opening credits and the intercut voice-over narration by both De Niro and Pecsi. Absolutely fantastic, along with a beautiful sweeping shot over Vegas.


Casino

Whats the glaring error. i havent watched the movie in ages

 

[Blader]

Most contrived and utter garbage opening, you mean.

Do you even know what contrived means?

 

[K.Jack]

No, Lieutenant.

Your men are already dead.

Flawless victory. Every jaw hit the floor as the scene unfolded.

EDIT: okay, maybe I have to go with Casino. :lol

 

[master15]

Whats the glaring error. I havent watched the movie in ages

You can see it in the link I posted, but when De Niro's car explodes in the opening, you can clearly see the switch from live actor to dummy, it only appears for a second by the way the scene cuts is rather jarring.

Flawless victory.

EDIT: okay, maybe I have to go with Casino. :lol

 

[DarkJediKnight]

Not Epic, but I loved Casino Royale's. It totally surprised me. At first I thought I walked into a black and white matinee.

 

[way more]

I like Gladiator. I really do. It's a damn fine action movie with great heroes and villains and battles and blood but it's cloying to call it "epic." The idea of it being epic was just a ploy by the marketers aiming for an Oscar. After that movies started advertising themselves as "epic," and the word became a mutilated corpse of it's former meaning.

For God's sake one of those parody movie things was named "Epic Movie."

 

[Winterblink]

For those who commented on Way of the Gun, behold it in all of its greatness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsaMcw69D8

 

[Kitschkraft]

No, Lieutenant.

Your men are already dead.

This. Can't really see it any other way. The image of trinity doing the kung fu in the air while the camera panned around her will always be remembered, if not always copied.

I think I read somewhere that the W.Brothers couldn't get all the funding they needed for the film, so they filmed this scene first, showed it to the higher ups, and the suits were so impressed that they gave more money.

CLOSE second? Dawn of the Dead (1978). The apartment complex..

"Shoot it man..shoot it man...shoot it in the head"....

I also really like Terminator 2.

 

[pizzaguysrevenge]

Since The Matrix, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Dark Knight have already been mentioned. I'll go with a movie that hasn't been mentioned yet.

Spoiler

Greatest movie ever made.

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."

 

[Dhx]

Three pages and no Top Gun. Wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZ1T70GT6s

 

[HooDoo]

Haven't seen it posted in here but the beginning of Dawn of the Dead (2004) is pretty furious and I always remember it as an epic opening, considering the very genre of the movie.

 

[dorkimoe]

some of you are confusing opening act to any scene that was awesome haha

but it has to be matrix

i mean seriously..think when you first saw that in theaters...wtf own

 

[SapientWolf]

For its time, X-men 2's opening Nightcrawler sequence was pretty bad ass!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVdCkKxty4

I didn't care for the film too much, but that opening scene was amazing.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Mirrors had a pretty great first scene.

Doesn't really qualify for this thread, but was a great opening. Same with that shitty GHOST SHIP movie.

 

[Learn2read]

For its time, X-men 2's opening Nightcrawler sequence was pretty bad ass!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVdCkKxty4

I liked the first two Xmen movies, but their action scenes were definitely their weakness, that sequence though was pretty wonderful though and maybe an exception.

 

[Puck]

Bad Boys 2.

 

[54-46!]

"DAMN!"

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Since its obvious people aren't actually talking about epic openings and that T2 has already been mentioned, I'm going to go ahead and saw Lethal Weapon's Jingle Bell hooker-body-slam on the car.

 

[Tony Rocky Horror]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

Spoiler

Lord of War

Edit: lol it says the title in the third frame. :lol

 

[Fix The Scientist]

I agree with The Matrix and Raiders.

Once more people have seen it... Star Trek XI. That movie has an intense opening scene.

 

[gollumsluvslave]

The Fellowship of the Ring

I actually prefer the opening of The Two Towers - the fall of Gandalf and the Balrog, then THAT shot of them falling into the underground lake, with Howard Shore's truly epic score.

 

[NotWii]

some of you are confusing opening act to any scene that was awesome haha

I'd say a lot of them!

 

[Haden]

 

[AniHawk]

Yeah, GoldenEye was badass.

Loved Casino Royale's opening too. The credits scene was pretty cool too.

 

[Scrow]

For its time, X-men 2's opening Nightcrawler sequence was pretty bad ass!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVdCkKxty4

"for it's time"?

even now it's fucking awesome.

My vote goes to the matrix, danm that movie was awesome.

yep. how did they get it so wrong in the sequels...

 

[acidviper]

Visiting a cemetery is very epic.

the daughter has a fantastic chest

 

[bjaelke]

GoldenEye also had the best title sequence ever.

 

[asa]

Bram stoker's Dracula

Too bad the rest of the movie is such a turd.

 

[Label]

No, Lieutenant.

Your men are already dead.

Winner.

yep. how did they get it so wrong in the sequels...

What sequels?

 

[Tokubetsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcisPdJVNl8

terminator 2 opening scene is the best.

Oh fuck yes. Terminator 2 has by far the BEST opening title scene...ever. If Terminator Salvation's is anywhere near HALF as good as this, I'll be fucking grinning in the theater. Only other film that comes close to it is the Dawn of the Dead Remake:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/?s=dawn+of+the+dead

 

[Falch]

Star Trek First Contact
Quantum of Solace

I liked the opening of X men 2 it was a fun start and a great introduction for nightcrawler.

And this.

 

[Fallout-NL]

The opening of 28 weeks later, the only good thing about that film.

Agreed, it was fantastic. Too bad the rest of the film didn't live up.

 

[Mohonky]

Aachi & Ssipak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2S6ehGOur4

Not only is it just plain awesome, it says everything you need to know about the rest of the movie; batshit insane & completely and utterly awesome.

 

[Night_Trekker]

The opening of Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[Bernbaum]

There are 'acts' and 'scenes' being mentioned here.

My favourite opening act is that for Goodfellas: I love seeing how stuff operates behind the scenes.

Despite the confusion, I just gotta mention my favourite opening scene:

 

[Blutonium]

GoldenEye also had the best title sequence ever.

Holy shit yeah, forgot about that.

It needs to be posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCOvxIxQuPw

 

[legend166]

The opening of The Two Towers was fantastic. The helicopter shot of the mountains, and then zooming in to realise that under there was Moria. Then seeing clips of FotR from a different angle. Following Gandalf down and realising that it was a damn huge cavern they were in. Gandalf kicking ass.

Awesome.


Edit: It's on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_pTq11Tpk

 

[MaddenNFL64]

The Godfather's opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjQx0uZTbhI&feature=related

Bonasera, Bonasera...

 

[Scrow]

What sequels?

best attitude to take honestly.

even the dizionised version didn't save it for me. it's just all round bad and beyond repair.

 

[NekoFever]

Visiting a cemetery is very epic.

I love how everyone forgets that this is the opening to that movie :lol

I really like the opening to X-Men 2. I loved it at the time because they really nailed Nightcrawler's teleport effect and got pretty creative with it.

 

[mrklaw]

Bolt

Fast and Furious is pretty good.

 

[mrklaw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcisPdJVNl8

terminator 2 opening scene is the best.

good choice.

Whats amazing about that though, is how well the first movie's flashback holds up to those in T2. Same kind of projection going on for the HKs with real people in front.

 

[DieNgamers]

Kickapoo from Tenacious D - Pick of Destiny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvvjiE4AdUI

 

[GCX]

Bolt

Yep, this is actually pretty good choice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_7kVTmeOKo

 

[Chinner]

Robocop?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

I nominate the battle sequence from Gladiator.

The Battle

Full scene(dubbed)

It makes me always laugh to hear that Germanic dude shout stupid things in a horrible, modern American-German. "DU BIST DER HUND!!" :lol

I personally liked the intro of Lord of War. Not that epic, but when you think of it, how it all started out and that behind every bullet and every gun used in war went through this.

 

[Solo]

I was going to say this.

99% of what is posted in this thread are just scenes, lol.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Replacement Killers