I finally got around to seeing Inglourious Basterds (even though I directed it I know lolol!!!), and wow, I know there’s been some inevitable “I didn’t think it was that great” backlash building amongst bloggers and some of my friends, but I thought the movie was absolutely awesome from beginning to end. Fun, entertaining, super-watchable despite the length, awesome dialogue, looked awesome, really funny, and if Christoph Waltz doesn’t win a Supporting Actor Oscar, I’ll quit the Oscars (for the eightieth time in my life).
Literally almost every scene in the film was memorable, perhaps none more so than the opening scene in the French farmhouse, which was so tense if you gave it one of those grocery store blood pressure tests the test would be like “holy sh*t you are too tense!!” And you’d be like, “I can’t believe this machine is swearing at me, that’s really uncalled for.”
This leads us to our fairly simple but conceptually bottomless Open Thread question of the day:
What is your favorite opening scene in a movie?
Personally, I’ll have to rank Basterds way up there, alongside another German but Nazi-free affair, The Lives Of Others, whose opening interrogation/classroom scene won me over so instantly, the rest of the movie couldn’t been Jamie Kennedy and Dane Cook flinging poo at Make-a-Wish children and I still would’ve rooted for it to take the Foreign Film Oscar.
On the lighter side, the Monty Python and the Holy Grail opening credits will always have a special place in my childish heart, and while I enjoyed Tropic Thunder, the opening trailers made me laugh harder than anything in the two hours that followed; neither of those are really “scenes,” though, so I’m disqualifying them from my own extremely rule-following post.
Let’s hear it, BWE commenters — best opening scene in movie history? Personal favorites, historically great openings, whatever you want – leave ‘em in the comments.
