Pair up the greatest "Film Beginning - Film Ending" you can think of...

[Popcorn_Bliss]

There surely are countless ones.

The films don't need to have anything in common other than one has arguably the best beginning and the other has the greatest ending.

My all-time ending came to me right away, but I was stuck on two all-time intros, so I offer two pairs. Feel free to choose for me...

Intro:Apocalypse Now 1979 (Willard superimposed over napalm)
Ending: La Dolce Vita 1960 (Marcello and the "girl of innocence" meet again and wave across the shore but he can't "connect" with her)

Intro:The Exorcist 1973 (Father Merrin gets a premonition of an adversary he knows all too well in dusty Iraq and knows what he must do as the red sun sets into current day Georgetown)
Ending: La Dolce Vita 1960

[AaronJ]

INTRO: Scream (1996): The whole beginning sequence with Casey alone in her house.

FINALE: Fight Club (1999): Narrator and Marla watching on as ... well, you know.

[Coenskubrick]

Inside Llewyn Davis's opening and closing are pretty WTF together.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

Inside Llewyn Davis's opening and closing are pretty WTF together.

Well, choosing from the same film, I would have to go with Irreversible.

[Rayjaymay]

Intro: Saving Private Ryan, the entire beach storming scene
Finale: Citizen Kane

[Magicman38]

Intro-Star Wars-Episode IV-A New Hope-Empire attacks and boards rebel shuttle.
Ending-The Sixth Sense. Never been shocked more by an ending than this one.

[Coenskubrick]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Well, choosing from the same film, I would have to go with Irreversible.

I don't get it, you're implying that the 2 films are very alike? Haven't seen Irreversible.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

I don't get it, you're implying that the 2 films are very alike? Haven't seen Irreversible.

I think it's just the fact it's the same film.

They're certainly nothing alike, although Inside Llewyn Davis would certainly be I far more insane experience had it ended like Irreversible.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

I don't get it, you're implying that the 2 films are very alike? Haven't seen Irreversible.

Originally Posted by Foggy

I think it's just the fact it's the same film.

They're certainly nothing alike, although Inside Llewyn Davis would certainly be I far more insane experience had it ended like Irreversible.

Yes, I was saying that if we are choosing a great beginning and ending from the same film, Irreversible would be my choice. If you had seen it, you would understand why.

[Mister B Gone]

The Dark Knight

- Joker heist on the mob bank w/ Heath Ledger introduction
- Gordon's narration with Batman being chased into the night

same movie, but oh well, there's a reason its my favorite movie ever

[MJD64]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark opening with the ending of The Wild Bunch; 2 terrific sequences of sustained action.

[Pedderrs]

Opening: A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946
Ending: Shane (George Stevens, 1953)

[surfdude12]

Triangle

Ending = Beginning



Note my location "Club Loop" = we in "Club Loop" take this movie seriously

[Batmon77]

The Spy Who Loved Me
The Planet of The Apes

[Coenskubrick]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Yes, I was saying that if we are choosing a great beginning and ending from the same film, Irreversible would be my choice. If you had seen it, you would understand why.

Oh okay, I misunderstood the topic, I thought we were just choosing a film with the best paired beginning and ending.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

Oh okay, I misunderstood the topic, I thought we were just choosing a film with the best paired beginning and ending.

Gotcha.

[grape_jelly]