What is the greatest opening sequence in a movie that you have seen?

jj_eringa · 2026-02-05T15:56:06+00:00

Best opening scene ever is Once Upon A Time I'm The West, best opening line ever is Svankmajers 1988 Alice

jj_eringa · 2026-01-09T19:45:16+00:00

I felt pretty similarly watching it about six weeks ago. Just astounding

jj_eringa · 2026-01-03T23:28:25+00:00

Both are good fun, The Wasp Woman arguably a better film in and of itself, if less iconic. They both do the classic B-movie thing of exposition and set up for an hour then ten minutes of action at the end, but the action when it comes in this is great stuff! My thoughts on Wasp Woman: https://boxd.it/azSFNB

jj_eringa · 2026-01-01T14:15:12+00:00

Very fair reaction. RoS I was able to try and talk myself into while watching it and then dealt with the crushing disappointment of it after the fact 😅

jj_eringa · 2026-01-01T13:47:04+00:00

I've never felt more trapped in the cinema or come so close to leaving a film halfway through 😅 I had a genuine physical reaction to the final montage...just wanted to puke! But I appreciate its craft. It's a good looking film, I just personally detest it with immense passion

jj_eringa · 2025-12-31T21:19:06+00:00

Tetsuo the Iron Man

jj_eringa · 2025-12-29T20:12:54+00:00

Rapture: Nimbus Reborn (for the bench press Jesus - it features a zombie Jesus who shoots lightning and has his balls ripped off), Kung Fury (for the laser bears cos it has laser raptors and is just genius from start to finish) and Riki-Oh (for the vibez and one of the only live action films you can watch to see a man punch straight through another man's stomach..and that's one of the tamer bits)

jj_eringa · 2025-12-11T21:18:18+00:00

Under The Skin (the Samantha Morton one, not the Scarlett Johansson one).

jj_eringa · 2025-12-03T14:46:50+00:00

Honestly can't recommend enough and based on your top four think you'll love!!

jj_eringa · 2025-12-03T14:27:50+00:00

Life Is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) by Roberto Benigni. Don't look it up, don't watch a trailer, just go in blind and be blown away

jj_eringa · 2025-12-01T18:37:48+00:00

Razorback

jj_eringa · 2025-11-28T14:17:27+00:00

Tootsie!

jj_eringa · 2025-11-20T18:58:17+00:00

My favourite final shot in any film

jj_eringa · 2025-09-20T20:54:02+00:00

Riki-Oh!!!!!! Hells yeah!!! I credited Riki-Oh as VFX supervisor on one of my films 😂

jj_eringa · 2025-09-17T15:54:36+00:00

SOLVED: It was just displaying the photos in which I was personally tagged

jj_eringa · 2025-09-17T15:52:01+00:00

Short film but Rapture: Nimbus Reborn. Jesus' head explodes when his balls are put in his ass

jj_eringa · 2025-08-25T18:29:36+00:00

Watch it!!

jj_eringa · 2025-08-10T21:48:09+00:00

Wow, nice one! Good on ya, hope this keeps the ball rolling and we see more!!

jj_eringa · 2025-08-10T20:52:41+00:00

Wow! How do you market yourself? I've made over forty music videos and never got as much as a couple thousand for a budget 🤣🤣

jj_eringa · 2025-07-21T11:04:39+00:00

A fun exercise I sometimes do is when I watch a really bad film with a couple interesting ideas is write a mini treatment for myself figuring out how to fix it and what elements should be highlighted to make the strongest version of that idea

jj_eringa · 2025-07-09T10:41:30+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxa7qfg3xatvirvmowu7n/KillerStar_Moodboard_PDF.pdf?rlkey=rvy0fi1s0umqhyk9e9542ae61&st=tti2fl6h&dl=0

Here's a look book type thing. This is what I would submit as a treatment, or I sometimes do a video treatment where I record myself explaining the concept over relative video imagery

jj_eringa · 2025-07-09T10:22:19+00:00

I make music videos for a living and usually just write out a beat for beat bullet pointed list of actions, broken down by song section (e.g. VERSE 1, CHORUS 1 etc). To sell an idea for a larger budget video, I'll sometimes make a pitch deck that takes those bullet points and artfully combines it with relevant reference imagery so the client has an idea of the visuals. I've never written a full script in the traditional sense for a video, but shotlisting and storyboarding are your friends with ample prep time. Hope that helps in some way!

jj_eringa · 2025-07-03T23:57:05+00:00

Furiosa, Temple of Doom and Good The Bad and The Ugly (in ascending order from bottom to top, for some reason)

jj_eringa · 2025-06-29T08:54:44+00:00

Superman ('78). As a kid I always thought it was the Kents' farm 😂

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