Best Pre-Credit Scene

[TrekSucksHard]

What movie has the best pre-credit scene and why!

I liked Goldeneye- it had plenty of action in it (and it was actually the best part of the entire movie IMO).

[PhuYuck]

I always liked the crazy funhouse scene of TMWTGG....either that or the long-awaited demise of who we believe to be Blofeld in FYEO.

[Kara Milovy]

Goldfinger is the classic precredits. It's absolutely perfect as a self-contained mini-movie. #2 has to be The Spy Who Loves Me, for the purity and perfection of the stunt.

[BeauButabi]

TMWTGG. Love that funhouse. Runner-ups: FRWL, OP, AVTAK, LTK, GE, TWINE.

[Cooper]

Wow... Golden Gun gets TWO votes! ... I never liked it. Bond's not even in it. (although the wax Roger Moore emoted as much as the real thing)

Goldfinger set the standard... I like it when the pre-credit sequence has nothing to do with the main story. It doesn't happen as much as I once thought it did. But with that in mind (and since it was my first Bond film in a movie theater) I'll vote for Octopussy.

Agreed that Spy Who Loved Me is a classic. Let's not forget Living Daylights. Skydiving, great chase and fight and great GREAT first shot of Dalton as Bond.

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

I always had a strange affection for the TND sequence.

[LeiterCIA]

Put me down for Goldfinger, FYEO, Octopussy, TLD, and TWINE, for my all time favorites.

TSWLM gets a knod for that classic stunt. And Thunderball also gets a knod, just for the classic scene of Bond slugging the grieving widow.

[Kara Milovy]

I love TLD, GE.

I really can't stand FYEO. Starts great, ends dumb. "Stainless steel delicatessen." Actually, an awful lot of teasers would be FABULOUS if they were cut in half: First half of DAF, FYEO, TWINE are great, GE would be better without the plane catch, TND would be better if it ended when he escaped with the plane (cut the cockpit fight).

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

Mine is "Octopussy," but part of my opinion is prejudiced. I saw the movie for the first time on a plane to Acapulco, and it set the tone for my whole trip down there.

[LeiterCIA]

...TND would be better if it ended when he escaped with the plane (cut the cockpit fight).

Yeah, that's one of those moments that just doesn't hold up against scrutiny. If you are the passenger of a plane which is being fired upon, would YOU strangle the pilot?

[Kara Milovy]

Yeah, that's one of those moments that just doesn't hold up against scrutiny. If you are the passenger of a plane which is being fired upon, would YOU strangle the pilot?
If you are the passenger of a plane which is not being fired upon, would YOU strangle the pilot?

[pjpaul007]

Im sorry but it has just got to be TND. The best thing about it is the conversation between M and the general! so cheesy but cool to see M get one over on him thanks to Bond. (oh and bond in a fighter jet shooting at everything in sight is also pretty dam cool!!!)

[conman]

The Best: I love the simplicity of LALD- great lead in to the credits/ song too.
FRWL was fantastic and is often overshadowed by GFs. TSWLM is classic.

[neglet]

As I pondered this question, I found it hard to choose between all the cool stunts ... but then when I considered which sequences were really effective in setting up the story, I decided that DAD is my favorite, just for sheer emotional resonance--plus it's completely different from everything else, so it also scores points for originality.

[Kara Milovy]

As I pondered this question, I found it hard to choose between all the cool stunts ... but then when I considered which sequences were really effective in setting up the story, I decided that DAD is my favorite, just for sheer emotional resonance--plus it's completely different from everything else, so it also scores points for originality.

Actually, I think the emotional pay-off is in the titles themselves, and DAD has the best titles of any Bond movie.

[conman]

I half agree with Kara because while they sometimes set up the story to come they are there as a lead in to the credits. And DAD does have the best ones it's just too bad we didn't get a song that was worthy of them. Madonna was a great choice for a performer they just caught her in the wrong era of her career. Had she done GE (around the time of her "Bedtime Stories" album) she would've delivered a song that may have been better than my all time fave (TWINE). Plus she didn't have her head up her a** at that point and probably wouldn't have tried to write it herself. I really wish we could hear Arnold's rejected song "I will return" you definitely hear traces of it in DAD's score.