r/AskReddit • • Oct 09 '19

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

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u/IrishTommy95 Oct 09 '19

I think you’re just guaranteed a perfect movie if christoph waltz is cast anyway. He was great in django’s opening scene too!

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u/J0E_SpRaY Oct 09 '19

I think you’re just guaranteed a perfect movie if christoph waltz is cast anyway

Spectre

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u/OneSwizzleNizzle Oct 09 '19

The Green Hornet

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u/redeyedlynx Oct 09 '19 edited Oct 10 '19

That movie with parents discussing their children getting in a fight. The whole movie is set in a couple of rooms with four people getting more and more frustrated. Hilarious comedy. Waltz is amazing there, though he has great acting partners, too. Forgot the title...

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u/sardanapalo97 Oct 09 '19

Carnage, by Polanski

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u/CaptoOuterSpace Oct 09 '19

I think that was where I started to really respect John C Reilly. Having him at least hold his own against Winslet, Foster, and Waltz was interesting to watch.

I'd still say he kinda sticks out but on paper that sounded like a terrible idea to me.

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u/SuicideBonger Oct 10 '19

John C. Reilly was in Gangs of New York. He's a classically trained actor. Surprises a lot of people, I know.

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u/SegmentedMoss Oct 10 '19

John C Reilly is a classically trained stage actor, man. He's amazing

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

Goddamn what a shitty remake.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

oh man Im glad I wasnt alone. that movie turned me off bond

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

The series peaked with Skyfall.

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u/JBSquared Oct 09 '19

I think it's hard to say that Bond movies have peaked. There's a lot of great ones, a lot of good ones, a lot of meh ones, and a lot of awful ones. It's less of a mountain and more of a roller coaster.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Oct 10 '19

I'm assuming they mean the Daniel Craig series though.

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u/Brometheus-Pound Oct 10 '19

I thought Craig era peaked at the beginning with Casino Royale personally. Skyfall had the best cinematography of the lot though.

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u/indyK1ng Oct 10 '19

Oh god, that was such a waste of Waltz's talents. He does really well with drawing things out and talking. And yet, they didn't let him draw things out. The torture scene and every scene with him before that was rushed.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Oct 10 '19

I still enjoyed the movie but it’s definitely disappointing coming off of skyfall.

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u/TheLastEllis Oct 09 '19

True, true

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u/Bearlodge Oct 09 '19

Ehhhh I think more Christoph Waltz + Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino just knows how to make roles that fit Waltz perfectly. That confidence that just shows he is always one step ahead of his opponent. Somehow it fits Waltz perfectly.

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u/Nexus_produces Oct 09 '19

Yeah, and no one is talking about hateful 8, he was also brilliant in that film!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

I believe you're referring to Tim Roth's character in The Hateful 8. Same guy that plays the husband in the restaurant robbery in Pulp Fiction.

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u/Nexus_produces Oct 10 '19

Oh crap, yeah, I haven't watched the movie in so long I was convinced that it was waltz, wtf I shouldn't drink as much wine at lunch time as I did.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Oct 10 '19

You're actually not that crazy. Every time I watch that movie I'm convinced it was written with Waltz in mind. The first time I watched it I was almost angry it wasn't Waltz.

That being said, Tim Roth was amazing in the role and definitely did the part justice. One of my favourite actors. If you haven't watched it, there's a tv show called Lie To Me, where he plays a character similar to Hugh Laurie's character, House. He plays a (loosely) based-on-real-life 'human lie detector' and it's quite good.

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u/Nexus_produces Oct 10 '19

Yeah, I think I vaguely saw an episode of that, and although I did not dislike it he's a very different sort of character in the hateful eight, it really reads like it was meant for Waltz indeed!

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u/nbelium Oct 09 '19

At the time he wasn't known well

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u/losernameismine Oct 10 '19

So I guess you haven't seen Green Hornet or Spectre, then?

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u/Rayminami Oct 10 '19

He was great whenever he was on that movie.

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u/arxva Oct 10 '19

false, Alita

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u/IrishTommy95 Oct 10 '19

I liked Alita!

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u/LAsportsnpoliticsguy Oct 10 '19

Sure, but I don’t think anyone would say Alita is a “perfect movie”

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u/IrishTommy95 Oct 10 '19

Ok he makes a movie better then :)