12 Movies You Can Stop Watching After The Opening Scene

7. Vanilla Sky

Do you ever wonder whether Almost Famous director Cameron Crowe regrets dropping a huge chunk of this pseudo-philosophical Tom Cruise vehicle’s sizeable budget on clearing out the real Times Square for the film’s unforgettable opening sequence—you know, given the fact that Brit helmer Danny Boyle achieved the same effect in the opening of his horror thriller 28 Days Later by just filming London at 5am before anyone was awake and around?

Folly as it may have been (maybe New Yorkers are early risers), there’s no denying that the first scenes of this trippy psycho-drama are its most memorable images as a distraught Cruise wanders through the abandoned city, disoriented and in awe.

Of course this is all eventually in aid of a sub-Jacob’s Ladder style twist revealed approximately five hours of tepid romance subplots later, but still—it's an undeniably killer opening.