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Best movie opening ever

posted 7 years ago by astroraptor
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I mean, Scorsese has some good openings: The Departed, Casino, Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street... but Goodfellas, wow, just wow and then it cuts to Tony Bennett and you know you're in for the next 2 and a half hours.

Siggy McSiggerson

[–] stranger180 7 years ago

Was simply perfection.

[–] scorsese-1 7 years ago

Great opening. Touch of Evil by Welles and Apocalypse Now by Coppola have great opening scenes also.

[–] astroraptor 7 years ago

Yeah, Apocalypse Now's opening is pretty *beep* awesome.

Siggy McSiggerson

[–] LauraCohle 7 years ago

Agreed. It's perfection.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 7 years ago

One of the coolest, most perfect and iconic. I consider Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Mean Streets' opening to be just as good, if not better.

Shutter Island and Wolf of Wall Street's opening are nowhere near the same league as the aforementioned films (in my mind).