Favorite opening scenes in a movie.

Technically it was not right at the opening, but pretty quickly, after showing the old WWII vet going to a certain headstone at the Normandy cemetery, Saving Private Ryan segues to the Allied assault on Normandy's beaches...IMHO, best opening sequence of scenes ever.
 
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indiana jones, jaws, close encounters, and once upon a time..

all excellent choices
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1. reservoir dogs... after that opening scene you just knew you you weren't seeing the same old hollywood schlock movie.

2. Inglorious Basterds.. wasn't a fan of the movie overall, but that is a fantastic opening scene.
 
good burger. when dexter steals his ma's car and then wrecks it and then out pops sindbad, you're all like "holy ****, that is sindbad" and then when he says pay for the damages and dexter is too poor so he has to get a summer job at the local good burger. you just know you're going to be in for a wild ride.
 
I submitted this one for best monologue, and I'll submit it here again:

No Country for Old Men

Agreed, about Saving Private Ryan. No other movie righteously punches you in the gut, right from the get-go, like SPR does with the D-Day imagery.
 
i'm going to go with star wars too. as a kid sitting in the theatre in 1976 or 77 (i was 7 at the time) and watching that ship fly overhead...it was nothing that had been seen before. you were hooked in at that point.
 
Some great ones mentioned.

First 20 minutes or so of The Fugitive were pretty riveting.
 
opening sequence of Star Trek / The Motion Picture in which Klingon battle cruisers launch torpedoes at Big Luminous Cloud in space; BLC gets ticked off and blasts them into nothingness with blue lightning balls. (the rest of the movie goes downhill from there, in terms of action/excitement). I love watching this scene just because of the expressions of the actors playing the Klingons, from "well, that should fix their wagon," to "uh oh ..." to "we are in serious deep [stuff]"
 
As far as comedies go, IMO, there's two clear winners.

Office Space where the guy keep changing lanes and then his new lane stops moving, meanwhile an old man with a walker is getting further and further ahead of them.

Spaceballs where the ship takes almost 2 minutes just to cross the screen.
 
Apocalypse Now is pretty bad *** in how it opens with Sheen in the room wigging out already.
 
Cape Fear.

Opening scene in the prison with that ominous music coming at you. Right off the bat the tone of the movie was set and you just knew right then that this was going to be one of De Niro's freakiest roles.
 
Patton

The opening with the flag covering the screen and the bugle call, then Patton swaggers onto the stage. George C Scott's monologue has so many great lines:

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"We're not just going to shoot the ********, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun ******** by the bushel."

"We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ***. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose!"

"Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled **** in Louisiana."
 
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