10 Movies That Should've Scrapped Their Opening Scene

The opening scene of any movie is so incredibly important, because filmmakers only get one opportunity to make a first impression with audiences. And as we all know, first impressions are everything.

If the first scene is exciting, mysterious, intense, or intentionally hilarious, then viewers will be instantly drawn in and ready for the remainder, while on the flip-side, a dud opening can leave a film on the back foot from the jump.

Sometimes an opening scene is iffy enough that you have to wonder what the filmmakers were thinking at all, and that it probably should've just been cut out entirely.

Given the enormous creative oversight which most huge movies are subjected to, it's impressive that these clunky scenes all survived various rounds of script drafting, shooting, and editing, to kick each film off.

From deathly dull openings to supposedly "exciting" superhero epics, to needlessly vulgar establishing scenes in prestige dramas, and everything else in between, these 10 opening scenes should've absolutely been left on the cutting room floor.

It might've required some serious creative re-jigging behind the scenes, but scrapping these openings would've hugely benefitted each of these films...

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).