20 Flawless Scenes From 2021 Movies

20. Black Widow: The Opening Titles

It would difficult for anyone to credibly argue that Black Widow is a particularly good movie. For the most part, this is a clumsy, hollow and poorly-written sort-of prequel that came out at least five years too late and suggests a worryingly mediocre future for the MCU but nonetheless, greatness can come from anywhere.

The movie does boast one of the finest pre-title sequences in recent memory. A hard-hitting, chilling montage of the Black Widow program with a fantastic and atmospheric cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit playing in the background, this entire sequence is brilliantly haunting and feels like nothing else you can find in the MCU.

More than anything else, it suggested something far more powerful and subversive than the film we ultimately got.