Right? I went through Army Boot in 1972. We had Rangers for DI's and ALL of them had CIB's. They weren't as vulgar as Hartman, but they were JUST as Hard Core and they worked us FAR harder than FMJ depicted. Considering the fact that Marine Boot is the toughest Boot Camp of ALL of the Armed Services, that is saying quite a lot.
1:11 Dawn of the Dead 2:39 Mad Max: Fury Road 4:01 Full Metal Jacket 5:05 Trainspotting 6:02 Natural Born Killers 7:17 Mission Impossible 3 8:35 Cliffhanger 9:44 28 Weeks Later 11:02 Inglorious Basterds 12:15 Saving Private Ryan There. Lazy bugger.
The opening of inglorious basterds is the best 20 mins of tarantinos career. I have seen all of his films. But that opening with christoph walz is the best of tarantinos career. Absolutely phenomenal.
Star Wars should be an honorable mention at least. When the ships swoop onto the screen, then the ship is captured, Stormtroopers attack, Vader arrives. It hooks you from the second the opening crawl is over and never lets go of you.
Particularly because, in 1977, what Lucas did was truly unique. Nothing had been seen like it. The rebel ship was impressive on it's own, but when the Star Destroyer appeared at the top of the screen and kept growing and growing ... other than 2001, "space" scenes looked little better than Star Trek TOS from the 60's. Whether you consider that "intense" is a personal matter, but (particularly on a 70mm widescreen) that opening sequence was breathtaking. 45+ years later, it probably does come down to "you had to be there".
Snyder is STRIKING with visuals, audio, and pacing He just needs a reliable writer, or a topic on which he’s an intimate fan He’s cinema’s Todd McFarlane
Someone already said the Matrix, but Trinity's supernatural martial arts and the chase scene ending with the agent crashing into the phone booth! C'mon, that was pure adrenaline rush. Has to make this list, just has to make it!
Good choice on the 28Weeks opening rather than Days. It’s the best scene in Weeks. Where is Jaws? That’s about as jarring an opening as you can get, with the girl begging god for help as she’s pulled underwater.
Mildred Pierce - wow, that's not a bad shout, particularly for the production code era. There's a few from that time that start with someone dead or dying - Sunset Bvd, Rope, and Double Indemnity come to mind, but Mildred Pierce arguably does the best job in setting the tone for the rest of the film.
I'm not sure if it counts as intense, but Don't Look Now does a great job of putting the viewers at unease right from the outset. And I'd throw in a mention for Children of Men too.
So when is part two? Cos while this wasn’t a bad list, there are definitely another 10 easily able to be thrown together here. One of my fav openings is A Quiet Place. That deserves a spot on a list like this, as do many others listed in other people’s comments too.
There is a little-known movie, which is odd since it stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, etc., called One False Move. The opening scene is a drug dealer's home being robbed and the people inside are murdered slowly, very slowly, by having plastic bags wrapped around their heads. VERY intense!
fun fact they are doing cliffhanger 2 but stallone backed out of it and they are using Pierce Brosnan : A mountain guide and his daughter's alpine climbing business in the Italian Alps faces a tragic event, forcing them to confront and overcome adversity as dangerous foes emerge, unleashing chaos.
Even after watching Mission: Impossible III and knowing the opening is actually the start of the climax, it still confuses me because he clearly went to Davian with the Rabbit’s Foot in his hands.
Guess the intro to the first Dirty Harry movie can be concidered to be rather intense. Also specially concidering that the Zodiac Killer was active at the time of the movies release.
Irriversible is the hardest opening and film i ever watched and athena should also be on this list! An insane 13 minute oner of absolute chaos and destruction
0:10-0:15...I gotta push back a tad on that statement. There was a movie in the 2000's, no later than 2012 that started with, I swear, 15 minutes of 2 dudes just walking on a mountain...I think. No talking. Maybe even no sound at all cause I remember I kept checking to see if I had my TV muted. I can't think of the name of the movie to save my life, but I watched the whole thing. I just kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen & before I knew it, it was rolling the end credits. Either I was just completely vapor locked staring at the screen...Or maybe I watched the whole movie because I was locked up in prison at the time. It's not like I had a lot else to do😂
I was pretty underwhelmed when i saw Saving Private Ryan in Cinema the Opening was actually on the graveyard. Yes, after that there is the Normandy but that was after the Opening Scene… Opening means Opening, Not something that comes after, same applies to Dawn of the Dead. The Originals Opening is missing here, just like „Jaws“.
You made an error regarding 28 Weeks Later. You credited the wrong director. Danny Boyle WAS involved. He directed the opening which is why it was so good.
Every single video that mentions Saving Private Ryan calls the Normandy scene the opening scene. It’s not. This misconception is particularly egregious in a video explicitly about opening scenes. In Saving Private Ryan, the Normandy scene doesn’t happen until about five minutes into the movie. There’s no question that the sequence is intense and harrowing, but it’s not the opening scene.
I'm not in the military. I've no desire to join. Probably wouldn't be allowed due to my disabilities anyways. But i know enough about the Marines that i imagine any marine listening to this cringed at the phrase, a "fleet of marines." Lol
Sarah Polley brings a lot to this movie, but will say and a ZS movie this one is actually pretty good. if SPR isn't 1 then you have failed at movies :)
Enemy at the gates once upon a time in the west stone cold 1991 desperado 1995 the specialist 1998 cold mountain run bitch run 2009 and the devils rejects hostel 2 is also good thanks for the list
Sometimes it isn't all about spectacular spectacle and heinous hoopla. Whether it's the book or the film, "Fellowship of the Ring" begins with preparations for Bilbo's birthday. 🙂 No one seemed to have a problem with that. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Anyone who would consider the FMJ Drill Instructor ‘psychotic’ probably would never have made it through any 20th Century boot camp.
Right? I went through Army Boot in 1972. We had Rangers for DI's and ALL of them had CIB's. They weren't as vulgar as Hartman, but they were JUST as Hard Core and they worked us FAR harder than FMJ depicted. Considering the fact that Marine Boot is the toughest Boot Camp of ALL of the Armed Services, that is saying quite a lot.
Ghost ship should have been on here somewhere. Not the best movie but that beginning.. holy shit
First thing I thought of. That movie is totally forgettable except the beginning, which is burned into my brain. Even Mythbusters did a segment on it.
Haunting the way they capture those first few seconds before things start to fall apart... "I thank you" sir Austin Powers
Amazing opening from the Buena Vista reminiscent font to the slow collapse of the Captain of the ship.
Best horror movie opening ever!
@@TheGryphonLJJ it was badass for sure
Totally could have taken full metal jacket out for that movies opening.
Timestamps are needed for this type of content
Every list video needs time stamps. Every single one.
It's 13mins skip through it or find an attention span...
1:11 Dawn of the Dead
2:39 Mad Max: Fury Road
4:01 Full Metal Jacket
5:05 Trainspotting
6:02 Natural Born Killers
7:17 Mission Impossible 3
8:35 Cliffhanger
9:44 28 Weeks Later
11:02 Inglorious Basterds
12:15 Saving Private Ryan
There. Lazy bugger.
or, you can just… *gasps* watch the video.
The opening of inglorious basterds is the best 20 mins of tarantinos career. I have seen all of his films. But that opening with christoph walz is the best of tarantinos career. Absolutely phenomenal.
The first 10mins of Watchmen might be the best of Synder's career, even better than Dawn. It's a joke that it's not on here.
Where is Chrissie being devoured by the shark in the first 5 minutes of Jaws?
Yeah, horror movies should be ALL over this list. Horror first-acts are some of the best.
Star Wars should be an honorable mention at least. When the ships swoop onto the screen, then the ship is captured, Stormtroopers attack, Vader arrives. It hooks you from the second the opening crawl is over and never lets go of you.
Particularly because, in 1977, what Lucas did was truly unique. Nothing had been seen like it. The rebel ship was impressive on it's own, but when the Star Destroyer appeared at the top of the screen and kept growing and growing ... other than 2001, "space" scenes looked little better than Star Trek TOS from the 60's. Whether you consider that "intense" is a personal matter, but (particularly on a 70mm widescreen) that opening sequence was breathtaking. 45+ years later, it probably does come down to "you had to be there".
Zombieland’s opening sequence goes to 💯 real quick.
If Saving Private Ryan wasn’t #1, I was going to unsubscribe
A History Of Violence (2005)
28 Weeks later opening scene might be the greatest opening horror scene of ALL TIME
"Choose life." That opening is really unforgettable, with Ewan McGregor's cutting narration over the top of Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life."
Surprised you left Ghost Ship off this list, that WAS the
movie opening! And Inglorious Basterds is perfection from beginning to end!
Cliffhanger is a good opening but Jim Carrey did it better in Ace Ventura
I love Dawn the dead's opening scene. One of the things that's great about it, you neglected to mention, was the Johnny Cash song.
Snyder's problem with DotD wasn't that he started strong with that opening, it's that he kept going... making more movies too.
Snyder is STRIKING with visuals, audio, and pacing
He just needs a reliable writer, or a topic on which he’s an intimate fan
He’s cinema’s Todd McFarlane
Someone already said the Matrix, but Trinity's supernatural martial arts and the chase scene ending with the agent crashing into the phone booth! C'mon, that was pure adrenaline rush. Has to make this list, just has to make it!
Team America: World Police set the standard for opening action scenes.
Good choice on the 28Weeks opening rather than Days. It’s the best scene in Weeks.
Where is Jaws? That’s about as jarring an opening as you can get, with the girl begging god for help as she’s pulled underwater.
The opening scene to Spectre was pretty spectacular, pity the first hour of the film is a snoozefest
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946), OLIVER TWIST (1948), MILDRED PIERCE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
Mildred Pierce - wow, that's not a bad shout, particularly for the production code era. There's a few from that time that start with someone dead or dying - Sunset Bvd, Rope, and Double Indemnity come to mind, but Mildred Pierce arguably does the best job in setting the tone for the rest of the film.
@@chrisninety1 yes, I should have remembered any number of such golden-age film-noires
To bounce off Cliffhanger, Vertical Limit.
Also Twister and Twisters had great openings
1:12 10 Dawn of the Dead … 2004
2:40 9 Mad Max Fury Road
4:02 8 Full Metal Jacket
5:05 7 Trainspotting
6:03 6 Natural Born Killers
I'm not sure if it counts as intense, but Don't Look Now does a great job of putting the viewers at unease right from the outset. And I'd throw in a mention for Children of Men too.
Darkman? That finger cutting scene
A Very Underrated Movie and Intense Opening Sequence.
So when is part two? Cos while this wasn’t a bad list, there are definitely another 10 easily able to be thrown together here. One of my fav openings is A Quiet Place. That deserves a spot on a list like this, as do many others listed in other people’s comments too.
This list needed NARC (2002) and When a Stranger Calls (1979).
There is a little-known movie, which is odd since it stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, etc., called One False Move. The opening scene is a drug dealer's home being robbed and the people inside are murdered slowly, very slowly, by having plastic bags wrapped around their heads. VERY intense!
No jaws?
Martyrs (the French original)
Yeah. That was brutal and hella messed up.
fun fact they are doing cliffhanger 2 but stallone backed out of it and they are using Pierce Brosnan : A mountain guide and his daughter's alpine climbing business in the Italian Alps faces a tragic event, forcing them to confront and overcome adversity as dangerous foes emerge, unleashing chaos.
Scream's opening scene was extremely tense. And could easily have been on this list
Even after watching Mission: Impossible III and knowing the opening is actually the start of the climax, it still confuses me because he clearly went to Davian with the Rabbit’s Foot in his hands.
The Matrix should be on this list...I'd take Trainspotting out
Agreed! Matrix was one of the best openings I have ever seen in my life!
Worthy #1... Surprised that no Bond opening was here, though. Would have loved to see "Casino Royale" get credit where credit is due
Chain Letter has pretty memorable opening.
I would have put the tea house shoot out from John Woo's Hard Boiled somewhere on this list.
The opening scene to the British version of the TV show, Utopia is a definite ball grabber.
That opening to cliff hanger is why I do not like heights. Scary af.
The Way of the Gun has a great opening scene too.
That's not how you pronounce "burying the lede".
Enemy at the Gate was pretty damn brutal.
How the shit did you guys miss Midsommar??!! I had to let family members know due to its intense opening scene, gut wrenching
Guess the intro to the first Dirty Harry movie can be concidered to be rather intense.
Also specially concidering that the Zodiac Killer was active at the time of the movies release.
JAWS
70 seconds in and nothing but gibbering how do you have 2.2m subs? no thanks algorithim
Irriversible is the hardest opening and film i ever watched and athena should also be on this list! An insane 13 minute oner of absolute chaos and destruction
You could have chosen many of James Bond movies. But you really messed up by not including Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Good call with Cliffhanger. But, Goodfellas needs to be on here.
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
0:10-0:15...I gotta push back a tad on that statement. There was a movie in the 2000's, no later than 2012 that started with, I swear, 15 minutes of 2 dudes just walking on a mountain...I think. No talking. Maybe even no sound at all cause I remember I kept checking to see if I had my TV muted. I can't think of the name of the movie to save my life, but I watched the whole thing. I just kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen & before I knew it, it was rolling the end credits. Either I was just completely vapor locked staring at the screen...Or maybe I watched the whole movie because I was locked up in prison at the time. It's not like I had a lot else to do😂
Gerry?
I was pretty underwhelmed when i saw Saving Private Ryan in Cinema the Opening was actually on the graveyard. Yes, after that there is the Normandy but that was after the Opening Scene…
Opening means Opening, Not something that comes after, same applies to Dawn of the Dead. The Originals Opening is missing here, just like „Jaws“.
What about Scream?
You made an error regarding 28 Weeks Later. You credited the wrong director.
Danny Boyle WAS involved. He directed the opening which is why it was so good.
SPR is 1. you have been saved
Low 28 weeks later, but still hard for me to watch the mom suffer and die. It’s just not fair to her just still pissing me out of this day.
wrestling on his laurels? burying the lead? Resting on his laurels. and burying the lead... as in a lead in a case, not the metal!
I'm Surprised That Final Destination 2 Isn't On The List
That wasn’t the first scene in dawn of the dead.. it was like 8 min in at least
Did you say "Burying the LEAD"?
Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Every single video that mentions Saving Private Ryan calls the Normandy scene the opening scene. It’s not. This misconception is particularly egregious in a video explicitly about opening scenes. In Saving Private Ryan, the Normandy scene doesn’t happen until about five minutes into the movie. There’s no question that the sequence is intense and harrowing, but it’s not the opening scene.
If Saving Private Ryan isnt on this list, it's boo boo.
C'mon, man. "Suicide Club"
By far. There's nothing like it.
Did you say 'burying the lead', pronouncing it like led?
Burying the lede (leed) is the saying.
A 'fleet' of marines?
I'm not in the military. I've no desire to join. Probably wouldn't be allowed due to my disabilities anyways.
But i know enough about the Marines that i imagine any marine listening to this cringed at the phrase, a "fleet of marines."
Lol
'burying the lede'
Its pronounced 'leed'
Sarah Polley brings a lot to this movie, but will say and a ZS movie this one is actually pretty good. if SPR isn't 1 then you have failed at movies :)
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Dawn of the dead 2004 is the best Snyder movie😊
Enemy at the gates once upon a time in the west stone cold 1991 desperado 1995 the specialist 1998 cold mountain run bitch run 2009 and the devils rejects hostel 2 is also good thanks for the list
Errrmmm ghost ship 🙄
Sometimes it isn't all about spectacular spectacle and heinous hoopla. Whether it's the book or the film, "Fellowship of the Ring" begins with preparations for Bilbo's birthday. 🙂 No one seemed to have a problem with that.
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
NBKs one of the worst movies ever.
First
Bury the lead, dig up the gold.🪙