Favourite Film Openings and Endings

[Soup]

Don't know why I like this film so much, maybe it's the amazing scenery in it or the slide guitar than runs through the film. Anyway its great and the final scene just gets me.

 

 

[Nalis]

Momento

[Trav Le Bleu]

In terms of how they tie together, the opening and end of Citizen Kane is hard to beat.

 

Also, Star Wars - A New Hope. The opening, big ship starts traversing the screen. It's big, but it disappears into the distance, chased by another, even bigger ship, that goes on and on and on, before eventually swallowing the first ship you thought was big. It might not seem so awesome with modern fx, but back when it was released, it was jaw dropping!

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

That last 20 minutes of The Shawshank Redemption get me every time, from Reds search for the tree until the ending on the beach, absolutely beautiful.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

The Good The Bad and the Ugly, the shootout in the grave yard between the 3 main protagonists is fantastic.

[The Blur]

The ending for Butterfly Effect was truly harrowing stuff.  

[rico]

The ending to The Departed has got to be one of the best 

[Stoopid]

Love the ending of 'Withnail and I' where Richard E Grant does the 'what a piece of work is a man' speech from Hamlet in the pouring rain, wine bottle in one hand, brolly in the other, to an audience of wolves (from memory) at the Regents Park zoo.

Perfect. 

[spacemunky]

3 hours ago, Stoopid said:

Love the ending of 'Withnail and I' where Richard E Grant does the 'what a piece of work is a man' speech from Hamlet in the pouring rain, wine bottle in one hand, brolly in the other, to an audience of wolves (from memory) at the Regents Park zoo.

Perfect. 

Fantastic scene, from one of my all-time favourite movies.

[Mythyaar]

For the best intro, I'd go for Get Carter and the train ride. Sets the film up superbly. Accompanying soundtrack is excellent too.  And what a great film it is, possibly Michael Caine's finest performance.

 

Lots of great endings. Agree with an earlier poster of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But as a "double" ending, think I'd go for Carrie.

[Staff]

My favourite intro is Belly, with DMX and Nas, closely followed by Drive 

[foxfanazer]

 

Probably not a classic but I love training day. Prime Denzel imo

[RumbleFox]

On 02/02/2021 at 16:54, Tuna said:

Candyman, eerie and evocative (even if it looks like the original Grand Theft Auto!).

 

 

One of my favourite films of all time and I think highly underrated. I watch it at least once a year. 

[Costock_Fox]

Most memorable film opening for me was The 51 State. The bit where everything goes backwards and Samuel L Jackson was actually bugs bunny was intense…

 

I haven’t dared to eat any magic mushrooms since.

[bovril]

 

 

[Daggers]

 

[Daggers]

On 18/01/2019 at 11:58, lifted*fox said:

 

 

 

Outstanding film. Amazing cinematography, amazing soundtrack. 

 

My favourite film ever. Must have watched it 20+ times. 

Dammit. 

[Nalis]

I quite like the ending to this film

 

 

[CheeseHead]

There is no better opening to a film than Once Upon A Time In The West, where 3 of Henry Fonda's henchmen are waiting for Charles Bronson to turn up at a railway station. Great stuff!

[ozleicester]

bah  .... its like some of you havent even seen BMX Bandits!

starts at around 0.50  
 

 

[Kinowe Soorie]

 

[Daggers]

 

[Foxdiamond]

19 minutes ago, Daggers said:

 

Gut wrenching

[Daggers]

18 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Gut wrenching

And yet there’s a part of me that thinks Suella Braverman would like us to adopt this approach to repelling migrants

[Dahnsouff]

Watching SPR at the cinema, felt like I did not blink through the whole opening, horrifically compelling.