Your Favorite Summer 2008 Movie Opening Scene?
This type of stuff has been discussed in the movie world before. But so what!
We all know that the beginning parts of the movie are just as crucial as how the movie wraps itself up in the end.
Especially summer blockbuster movies. They need to catch the audiences’ attention right from the start.
With a bang! In a Blaze of Glory! The hero has to make a grand entrance!
The opening scene will determine whether or not the audience will be curious enough to wanna see what’s going to happen next and stick around until the last part.
One of my favorite opening scenes of all time is from X-Men 2 where Nightcrawler attacked a bunch of Secret Service agents just to get to the President and who could forget the memorable hilarious dialogue in Pulp Fiction opening scene?!
It’s just that… now THE DARK KNIGHT is upon us, and most of us have seen the amazing 7 minute prologue, the bank robbery scene, that was shown before the prints of the movie I Am Legend in IMAX last December, so..
what do you think about the opening scenes in this year’s summer blockbuster movies so far?
Which one is your favorite?
Let me refresh your memory
The scene opens with Tony Stark in a military humvee, you can hear AC/DC music in the background and the soldiers who were with him wanted to take a picture with the playboy billionaire/weapons manufacturer. And then Boom! the humvee in front of them gets blown to pieces, a rocket launcher hits the one behind them too and the soldiers to his left and right are shot and killed. He gets out of the car and the next thing you know, he’s lying on the ground with shrapnel as souvenir.
You see Speed Racer in a locker room with his right foot itching to hit the gas pedal and then flashback to when he was a kid in the classroom all distracted because all he could think about was racing against cartoon character race drivers. His brother, Rex picked him up from school and on they went to drive on the race track and just when they made the first jump, the scene goes back to present time and Speed Racer finds himself in one of the most challenging tournaments in his career.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN
Doctor Cornellius wakes Prince Caspian up from his sleep because danger is approaching. King Miraz’s wife just gave birth to a son, so he will have to kill the rightful heir. Prince Caspian goes into the closet and hides The soldiers force their way into the room and he sees their failed attempt on his life. The closet leads to a secret tunnel which brings him outside the castle and he rides away into the forest while dodging arrows at the same time.
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
The opening scene takes us in Nevada in the 1950s. A bunch of free-spirited teenagers in a car trying to invite military convoy for a quick race. Shots of Gophers in the middle of the commotion. And then the soldiers arrive at a secret base known as Area 51 where they shoot and kill all the guards there at the entrance. They take out a man out of the back of a vehicle. They throw him onto the ground, he stands up, walks, and picks up his big hat and puts it on his head. And you see none other than the one and only, Indiana Jones.
It shows biological elements, cells and green mutations along with the rolling credits of the main stars, the title and the director. You see blurry vision of flashbacks of that fateful day when Bruce Banner tries his experiment that suddenly goes haywire. You see things from Hulk’s eye view. The laboratory gets wrecked and destroyed, Gen. Thunderbolt gets hurt and Betty Ross is left unconscious and Hulk runs away.
Mr. X visits an office and talks to the woman there about an interesting bullet. The women gets shot in the head and from across the street, on another building, a bunch of construction workers start firing at Mr. X and so he runs to the elevator. He prepares himself, counts his seconds, and Bam! He runs as fast as lightning toward the window, he jumps through the glass. Everything happens in slo-motion, he’s in mid-air and he shoots everybody on the other building. On target too, I might add. He kills the last victim and receives a phone call from a stranger who reveals that this has all been a decoy. A bullet goes through Mr. X’s head and the sequence rewinds back to the shooter.
Hobo Hancock is sleeping on a bench, all drunk and careless. A kid is watching the TV screen, the news is showing a high speed chase between LAPD and a gang of Asian gangsters packing heat. The kid approaches Hancock and wakes him up. He points to the screen and implies that there are bad guys. He makes fun of the kid by asking if he wants a cookie, the kid calls him an A-hole. Hancock flies into the sky and heads toward where the action is. He hits some street signs and almost hit an airplane along the way. He lands in to the bad guys’ car and even though he politely asks them to give themselves up, they open fire and the bullets destroy his whiskey bottle. Furious, Hancock takes the car with him and flies all around Los Angeles to scare the hell out of them. He kicks the car and puts it on top of the tower of Capitol Records building.
My favorite opening scenes: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Hancock.
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