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hey whats up.  i recently watched the opening sequence to lion king and began wondering what other great movie intros there are.  i liked this one the best because i just get so tingly at the end of it when simba is being held toward the sky right before the song ends.  so what is everyone elses favorite?



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Some of my favorites would be
A Clockwork Orange
Scarface(the customs interrogation)
the Naked Gun movies(the one with the round table meeting)
Monty Python and the holy grail
Some of the Bond movies(old and new)



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Touch of Evil has a phenomenal intro.
Memento has a really cool intro too.

The Lion King sucks. Beauty and the Beast all the way.



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28 weeks later
The original Halloween [1978]
Halloween H2O



4 ≈ One

Dgc1808 said:
28 weeks later
The original Halloween [1978]
Halloween H2O

Definitely, that is a very memorable one.  I love those long tracking shots.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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I absolutely love ...

Iron Man
X2
Crimson Tide

Saving Private Ryan (the war sequence)
V for Vendetta

I'll add more later.



Saving Private Ryan
A Clockwork Orange
V for Vendetta




The Street Fighter (1974) starring Sonny Chiba, first film to be rated X for violence alone, had a totally awesome intro.
Thunderball (1965) had a badass intro with the jet pack.
But the best intro of all time is the one from Un Chien Andalou (1929).



All the Ninja Turtles movies have good intros. They all start really fast with some ass kicking and pizza partying.

Night of the Living Dead had a great intro. "They're coming to get you Barbara!"

In fact, both versions of Dawn of the Dead had amazing intros. (Both versions were written by Romero, so don't get mad at me for giving the remake some love too. Of course the original DotD is still the greatest zombie movie of all time though.)



^^ Have you seen the 90's Night remake Rubang? Just wondering what you think of it.

A touch of Evil's intro is definitely insane.

A good movie for intro's is Serenity. It's as if you've got 3 or 4 intros strung together, which culminate in an awesome "one shot" intro with some fantastic music.



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