To call Early Man wildly anachronistic would be an understatement:
the opening flashback sequence that depicts humans and dinosaurs living side by side is but the first of its obvious and unclever bizarrities.
Not exact matches
(It's worth noting, too, that the movie's
opening stretch boasts an unexpectedly heartbreaking
flashback sequence involving Peter's deceased father.)
This may seem like the start of a great time at the movies, but unfortunately, the next forty or so minutes is filled with
flashback that give new information to the
opening sequence of the original, following kidnappers (not the one I first mentioned, but a second), and many attempts to explain the reason for why the movie exists.
A terrific
opening sequence finds Molly narrating a painful
flashback to her days as a world - class skier, specifically the painful accident that dashed her Olympic dreams.
From the
opening sequence's fast - motion shots, rapid editing, and hallucinogenic
flashbacks of a child, we quickly realise one of the main objectives of Mad Max: Fury Road is to create a visual experience.
Though it
opens with a series of fairly needless
flashbacks, Friday the 13th: Part 2 quickly segues into a surprisingly suspenseful pre-credits
sequence detailing the doomed exploits of Friday the 13th survivor Alice (Adrienne King).
The film
opens with a bang as Janet points her gun directly at the camera to an unseen figure, only to
flashback to show us how the
sequence of events came to conclude so shockingly.
Flashback sequence to
open the movie before a reanimated Busta Rhymes takes over as the modern - day hero?
The plot takes place via
flashback after the
opening sequence.