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Voted for Dracula. Thanks to this poll, I realized I am a sucker for shadow puppet / theater prologues, which means they tend to stick with me the most. Hence, even if the execution isn't great, I've prefered the concept of the Bakshi prologue to the Jackson prologue, for LOTR.

I also quite like explicit narration - and the contrast between Lynch's Dune opening and the music also stuck with me a lot, but that may simply be because my dad loved the movie, and it played a lot at home when I was a kid.

I love Up's opening - but I am of mixed feelings, because I think this shows Pixar is often at its best for short- or medium-length features, with little to no dialogue. I think the rest of Up is almost superfluous. Likewise, I think Wall-E becomes a lesser movie once the humans are involved.

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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Jacob - November 15, 2025, 05:24:39 PM

Denmark at home plays 2-2 against Belarus. Embarrassing.

With Greece beating Scotland, we could've locked it in.

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Off the Record / Re: Best movie prologue

Last post by Sophie Scholl - November 15, 2025, 05:11:36 PM

I voted for Up and Fellowship. Random ones that come to mind that aren't listed are the opening of Goldeneye (Bond and Trevelyan), The Dark Knight (Joker robs a bank), Once Upon a Time in the West (Two too many...), and Inglourious Basterds (Interrogation).

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Savonarola - November 15, 2025, 02:42:05 PM

Red River (1948)

The greatest John Ford movie that Howard Hawks ever directed.

Not only does it have John Wayne and Walter Brennan, it also has a number of Ford's usual stock company. It is a really good movie, but I think his less Ford-like western "Rio Bravo" is a better picture. The biggest problem with the narrative is that the rivalry between Montgomery Clift and John Ireland is set up and then simply dropped. This was because Ireland was frequently drunk/stoned on set. Clift and Wayne (despite despising one another's politics) work well together and the movie works without a Clift/Ireland rivalry subplot.

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Off the Record / Re: Best movie prologue

Last post by Savonarola - November 15, 2025, 02:28:05 PM

It isn't quite what you had in mine, but I would pick Patton's Speech to the Third Army from Patton. It doesn't really summarize the preceding events, but it summarizes the character in just over six minutes.

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Off the Record / Re: Best movie prologue

Last post by Tonitrus - November 15, 2025, 02:06:32 PM

I suppose it is sometimes hard to distinguish an opening "prologue" with what would be more said to be just the start of the film.

Would something like Wargames up until "Turn your key sir!" count?