Great Film openings

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  1. StatisTYKE

    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Sitting in Barnsley Odeon in 1977 this completely did your head in. Nowt like it had ever been seen before...

     
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    Saving private Ryan... now that’s going to take some beating
     
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street. "Freddy" making his glove in a filthy old boiler room, his heavy breathing, noises and demeanour foreshadowing what the character is. As good an opening to any horror film, ever...
     
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    That Star Wars scene hooked me in from the beginning - massive fan ever since. Yes Private Ryan amazing too.

    Like the Godfather opening scene too
     
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    4 weddings and a Funeral - forgot how it started until I sat down to watch in on the box again quite a few years later with Mum and Dad who were most unimpressed!

    More seriously the Original Star Wars was superb - I too watched it in Barnsley Odeon in 1977
     
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    Apocalypse Now!
     
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    What? A bloke walking through a cemetery?!!
     
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    It.
     
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    To truly appreciate that opening sequence, you have to watch 10 years of Blake’s Seven, Dr Who and the original Star Trek first. I also saw it in the Odeon in 1977 and you’re right, never seen anything as spectacular.
     
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    Barbarella. :oops:
     
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    Why is C3P0 so camp? And why do the stormtroopers remind me of Jamie Mackie?
     
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    C3P0 reminds me of Steve Davis.
     
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    True. It also brings home how feeble it is watching films on a phone or even TV. If you haven't seen that opening in a cinema then you haven't seen it at all.
     
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    He’s an Android in transition.. ;)
     
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    first time I watched I Put on at 11:30 pm with surround sound cranked right up. Not a good idea. Wife was in bed thought walls were falling in :D
     
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    Cruel Sea. Waves and evocative music - said everything.
     
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    Risky Business. One of the first films I remember watching. Can still watch it today.
     
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