TOP TEN TUESDAY: Greatest Opening Scenes

They are the first things we see.   They are the launching point for your film.   They are the opening scenes.   Many opening scenes drive home right from the start what the film is all about and the attitude the filmmakers are projecting towards their audience.   Some don’t work, but there are several opening scenes that stick out in cinefile’s minds all over.

It’s hard to put together a list of the 10 best opening scenes, but we’ve done our very best.   Below, you’ll find what we Movie Geeks believe to be the best of the best in opening minutes of a film.

A quick note:   We don’t want to hear anyone bitching about how ‘Saving Private Ryan’ is not on this list.   Yes, the Normandy landing is an incredible scenes, one of the greatest battle sequences ever.   However, think back to ‘Saving Private Ryan.’   Think back to the very beginning of the film.   The Normandy invasion is not the opening scene.   Rather, the bookend scene at the cemetery is the very first scene we see after the opening title.   So, there.   Put that in your movie geek pipe and smoke it.

Now, onto the list:

10. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

9. Citizen Kane

8. Pulp Fiction

7. A Clockwork Orange
THE NARRATION NEAR THE END OF THIS CLIP IS IN ITALIAN. APOLOGIES FROM THE EDITOR.

6. Star Wars: A New Hope

5. Magnolia

4. Once Upon a Time in the West

3. Fight Club

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2. Apocalypse Now

1. Touch of Evil