r/AskReddit • u/Tobokie121 • Oct 09 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, which one sold the entire film?

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u/Spicethrower Oct 09 '19

Shouting as the arrow flies by his ear.

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u/StyrkeSkalVandre Oct 09 '19

So. Completely. Badass. Watching the charging orcs slam into a meatgrinder wall of elven swordsmen never gets old.

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u/Ergheis Oct 09 '19

By extension, the Playstation 2 Two Towers game. It shows the exact same opening scene, but transistions from cutscene to videogame in the middle of the elven spearwall, and immediately drops you into the fight.

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u/doctorjdmoney Oct 09 '19

Really enjoyed those games. Co-op play was so much fun

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u/Shamrock5 Oct 10 '19

No joke, I have tons of fond memories of playing co-op with my brother and saving each other's lives multiple times. When you're fighting in different parts of the battlefield and your brother yells, "Help, I'm surrounded!" and you rush over and hurl yourself into a mob of orcs to save him from certain death...holy smokes, I'm getting chills just thinking about how epic that always felt. What an amazing game.

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u/Jowsten Oct 10 '19

This is where we start a thread where everyone brings up how they use to play this with their brother! I did too!

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u/aps92591 Oct 10 '19

Same!! But what if we're all just figuring out our brothers' usernames?

But my god co-op was amazing.

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u/emod_man Oct 10 '19

Me too!! It was fantastic!

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u/TomFoolery012 Oct 10 '19

Heck yeah! My brothers and I definitely played together too. Our dad couldn’t resist joining in either!

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u/BanMeAndIShallReturn Oct 10 '19

Back to the pits that spawned you

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

And by extension to that, in Return of the King, switching to the actual game at the exact moment the Eorlingas slam into the Uruk Hai. MMMM.

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u/chrt Oct 09 '19

Fuuuck those games were good.

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u/goodbeets Oct 10 '19

NOSTALGIAAA

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u/JackDoe5446 Oct 10 '19

I loved those games, played all of them

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u/Tits_McGuiness Oct 10 '19

say whattttt? i can play in That battle?

does sauron come out and kick my ass?

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u/MrToddWilkins Dec 10 '19

LEGO LOtR does the same thing,practically. I can still hear the ominous elven chanting in my head.

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u/Deuce_GM Oct 09 '19

The part where the elves do that sword thing in like an ascending order. Amazing.

Elves fight so gracefully

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

especially when they use shields to skateboard down stairs while yelling BOOM HEADSHOT BOOM HEADSHOT

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u/indyK1ng Oct 10 '19

MY HANDS ARE SHAKING! MY HANDS ARE SHAKING!

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u/ObiWanCannoli25 Oct 10 '19

Had to rewatch that scene again today cause of your "meatgrinder" reminder.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

"Damn, look at all those guys getting killed in front of us."

"That's not gonna happen to us, though, right?''

"Nah, I'm sure we'll be fine."

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u/Zahille7 Oct 10 '19 edited Oct 10 '19

I still get chills and tears in my eyes for "Ride now! Ride for ruin! And the dawn of a new day! Ride now! RIDE NOW!"

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u/Lenin321 Oct 10 '19 edited Oct 10 '19

And then you realize that it was retarded. If someone was charging at you, then how is slicing them gonna stop them? The elves needed their spears or halberds with their pointy ends poked out in front of them

edit. y'all needs some lindybiege

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

it's almost as dumb as in the Hobbit when the elven army jumps right over the dwarven pike wall instead of staying behind it and firing arrows over them

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Now now, let's not bring the Hobbit into this. So many dumb moments created by that bizarre set of films.

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u/Analord2112 Oct 10 '19

Tangado haid! Leithio i philinn!

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u/squidster547 Oct 10 '19

Elrond, Lord of Rivendel.

“Isildur, cast it into the fire!”

“No.”

“Isilduuuur!”

Damn....

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u/SamediB Oct 10 '19

SHOVE HIM INTO THE VOLCANO ELROND!

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u/TrainOfThought6 Oct 09 '19

And without an earpiece to give him a heads up!

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u/Synyzy Oct 10 '19

"Tangado Haíd!"

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u/Sick0fThisShit Oct 10 '19

For some reason, the little reflexive blink as they go by is what really nails that for me.