'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' and 'Up' are also among the most popular choices Film lovers have been debating what they believe are the greatest opening scenes of all time, with movies by Christopher Nolan , Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg among the favourites. The conversation was prompted by a Reddit user, who cited the opening of this year’s Deadpool & Wolverine as a standout. In that scene, Ryan Reynolds ’ character resurrects his corpse to fight off a squadron of Time Variance Authority officers, set to *NSYNC ’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’.
The comment opened up a discussion that took in countless classic movies, many of which have opening sequences that linger long in the memory. One of the most popular replies came from a user who selected Tarantino’s 2009 World War II drama Inglourious Basterds . The opening scene of that film sees Christoph Waltz ’s horrifying Nazi commander Hans Landa visit a rural farmhouse to pressure the residents into revealing if they are hiding Jewish people in their property.
The slow build and nerve-shredding suspense of the scene makes it one of modern cinema’s most unforgettable film openings. Another iconic scene mentioned in the discussion is the start of Spielberg’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981), featuring the legendary action sequence in which Harrison Ford ’s Indiana Jones navigates the booby-trapped ancient Peruvian temple to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant, eventually being chased by a giant rolling boulder. Nolan’s be.
