Best opening 20 mins for a movie - Gladiator V Saving Private Ryan

[CTPE]

Two great movies - two magnificent opening sequences - which is better?

 

[light]

SPR for sure. That beach scene is one of my favourites ever.

I like the final scenes in Gladiator, had me crying like a baby the first few times I saw it. Russell at his finest.

'Fear & Loathing in Vegas' also knows how to set the scene and has a cracking start. "We can't stop here this is bat country!"

honourable mention to Forest Gump, they sure knew how to turn a guy sitting on a park bench for 3 hours into something worthwhile.

I can already see where this thread is going and I like it!

 

[matty_k]

Up.
The opening moments of that movie tells the greatest love story ever. You won't find a better one.

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[CTPE]

" On my command...unleash hell!" - love it. Sounds like a rugby captain' s call.

 

[Joe Mac]

Got to be Gladiator out of the two. But gentlemen, if we are talking all movies, best opening scene has to be Top Gun

 

[matty_k]

Pelham 123 (The original) is another. Not a single word spoken for roughly the first five minutes but it sets the tone of the whole thing. It's also the movie Quinten Tarentino got the Mr <insert colour> idea for Reservoir Dogs.

 

[Grandmaster Flash]

Rest of the film is ok but the tension in the opening 10 or so minutes of Inglorious Basterds is quite palpable.

 

[RugbyReg]

Think you all need to go back and re watch SPR to see what the first scene is.

 

[It is what it is]

"Four Weddings and a Funeral"
Forget the swearing in "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "Scarface".
Of the first 38 words spoken in this movies opening scene, 13 of them are fuck.

 

[matty_k]

Fun fact. John Howard would often answer "What's your favourite movie?" With Four Weddings and a Funeral.

I'm not so sure he's actually seen it.

 

[oztimmay]

Saving Private Ryan, hands down for sure.

 

[RugbyReg]

The scene of the old folks walking through the cemetery?

 

[oztimmay]

The scene of the old folks walking through the cemetery?

Just fast forward a little RR...

 

[RugbyReg]

so not the opening sequence?

 

[oztimmay]

so not the opening sequence?

I haven't even had my first coffee, it's too early for a conversation about this!