10 Movies That Should've Scrapped Their Opening Scene

10. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

It should've been clear from its very first scene that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was in trouble, given that it kicks off with a dreadfully boring and overlong flashback to the day that Peter Parker's (Andrew Garfield) parents died.

The sequence, in which Peter's parents are onboard a private jet which is hijacked and crashes, vastly overestimates how much the audience cares about the mystery of the Parkers' deaths. 

Considering this mystery subplot is the most uninteresting part of the entire movie, director Marc Webb would've been smart to cut this opening entirely. 

It drags on for seven tedious minutes, and if Webb wanted to start his movie in actually exciting fashion, he should've skipped straight to the decidedly more entertaining second scene, where Spidey swings through the streets of New York City and takes on Rhino (played by a deliciously hammy Paul Giamatti).