Some sequences feel too much like homage, especially a train fight that recalls those in «From Russia with Love,» «Live and Let Die» and «The Spy Who Loved Me,» rather than creating the visceral thrill and genuine sense of danger
in the opening sequence of «Skyfall.»
He is rather whimsical, and is often found getting himself into trouble with the lovely Elise De La Serre, an equally mischievous lady that Arno meets
in the opening sequence when he is just a young lad.
The atmosphere of adventure and mystery created at once
in the opening sequence in an East End music hall is excellently maintained throughout.
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in the opening sequence as he drives the gang into Silent Hill.
Although Donkey Kong Island is not visited for the rest of the game, it
appears in the opening sequence of the game and can be seen in the background of the areas Gangplank Galleon and K. Rool's Keep.
There are hints of an unspoken psychic bond between the woman driving around in the white van picking up men and the mysterious motorcyclist zipping around Glasgow, hugging the curves of hilly roads that dip and snake like the
ones in the opening sequence of «The Shining» — but we never find out precisely what the connection is.
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness: it charges at you like Ewan McGregor's Renton sprinting from store
detectives in the opening sequence.
Joy doesn't work entirely, and the structure set up so
clearly in the opening sequence is dropped early on for no apparent reason, but I'll be damned if I didn't get carried away at the story of a mop sweeping the nation.
Oscar Isaac gave a brilliant performance as the movies main antagonist Apocalypse & his back story & the whole set up for the
movie in the opening sequence truly gave the film some gravitas & depth.
The visual effects (
particularly in the opening sequence) are gobsmackingly pained, blending the rubber CGI and questionable play on post-9 / 11 anxieties a freakish cable network quality.
He even includes the original film's songs (Kenny Loggins» voice does make an
appearance in the opening sequence) and even the yellow Beetle car, presumably as some sort of nostalgic tribute.
Its suffocating hold on him is symbolized by the grave he and Henry dig for their father (Jonathan Banks) during a
rainstorm in the opening sequence — Jamie nearly drowns in the mud.
The answer is
provided in the opening sequence of director Ryan Coogler's film, which recounts the history of Wakanda, and the Vibranium meteorite that crashed there.
Dwayne Johnson is protagonist Ray, a hotshot helicopter pilot with the L.A. fire department who demos his bona
fides in the opening sequence, involving the rescue of a blonde in a low - cut top whose car is jammed into the rock wall on one side of a deep chasm.
The terminal scene change is
signposted in an opening sequence in which Harry and Hermione, preparing for war, finally put away childish things: Harry abandons Privet Drive (by flying motorbike, driven by Robbie Coltrane's Hagrid, pictured above), while Hermione wipes herself from her parents» memories.
Bone Tomahawk finally picks up at around the 110 minute mark (the runtime is 132 minutes) where the audience gets a dose of that genre goodness that was
promised in the opening sequence.
Rough Iraqi
deserts in the opening sequence could become an effective backdrop, and collapsed buildings might have allowed Cruise to get gritty, but Kurtzman never stressed on this potentiality.
Two key Peeping Tom locations were outside the door of my workplace: the passageway where a doomed prostitute picks up Mark
Lewis in the opening sequence, and the newsagent above which he takes adult photographs.
This particular scare was made
famous in the opening sequence of Friday the 13th Part 2 (which is ironic since the first movie features one of the best jump scares) when a cat jumps through Adrienne King's open window.
• The city of Fargo itself appears
only in the opening sequence of the movie, in which Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) enlists the services of two seamy hoods (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife.
Going back and forth between Bloom's rise, as she arranged secretive multi-million dollar poker games for the rich and famous at luxurious hotels, and her eventual fall that we
witness in the opening sequence when FBI agents storm Bloom's apartment arresting her for fraud, the film is an ambitious attempt by Sorkin to fully flesh out a fascinatingly complex woman.
Whether he is throwing us off guard with a haunting image that zooms out to reveal it is little more than a portrait, acting as a red herring, or simply greeting the audience with a disturbingly visual parade of naked
flesh in the opening sequence, you leave this movie thinking about the imagery.
That tendency is
apparent in the opening sequence, in which the notorious Allentown brothers (imagine darker, longer - haired, more offensive versions of the Salamanca cousins from «Breaking Bad») stage a bloody attack on a church where drugs are being secretly manufactured.
Though the actor is only in the movie for about 30 minutes, showing up
in the opening sequence before disappearing until the final act, his delightfully hammy performance (which includes a shaky British accent and top - knot hairstyle) is the only remotely entertaining thing about the film.
Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous
murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are actually a pair of highland blood suckers, a 200 year old mother and daughter pair of vampires.
As the camera glides through a rain - drenched, rubbish - strewn back
alley in the opening sequence of The Long Day Closes, aural snippets from a variety of sources (the triumphant horns of 2...
Its provenance is
explained in the opening sequence when, after dark on the island in 1941, a tipsy, bucolic crew of Guernsey residents are apprehended for breaking the Wehrmacht's curfew.
San Andreas shoots itself in the
foot in the opening sequence, not only with some of the worst special effects in the film (as a car plummets off a cliff), but an unnecessarily chaotic chopper rescue.
Skyfall is better directed than Quantum of Solace, but it declares its disinterest in maintaining the series» edgier
potential in the opening sequences that are over-the-top and unbelievable, although not in a way that is outrageous enough to be truly exciting.
She first really earned notice thanks to her performance in Gerardo Naranjo's 2011 film Miss Bala, but she has since been in a Bond movie (
featured in the opening sequence of Spectre) and more recently has been playing Valeria Velez on the Netflix series Narcos.
The feeling of bizarreness is amplified when you start to wonder whether the use of the point - of - view - shot device in Akkad's subsequent production — Michael Myers's first
killing in the opening sequence of John Carpenter's Halloween (78)-- was somehow inspired by this experiment.
From the moment we perceive Fontaine's
intent in the opening sequence, we are gripped by all that he does, forced to become as attuned to his environment as he is, sensitive to every offscreen sound and unseen threat.
This is sometimes used to great effect, as
in the opening sequence where we follow James at the tail end of another night of heavy drinking right into his awkward appearance at his father's wake.