10 Movies That Should've Scrapped Their Opening Scene
6. Dune (1984)
David Lynch's Dune is one of the most disappointing films of all time, and it doesn't waste much time making that fact clear.
The film opens with an almost hilariously awkward narration from Princess Irulan (Virginia Madsen), who makes intense eye contact with the audience as she reels off two minutes of clunky exposition about the world of Frank Herbert's sci-fi opus.
While Virginia Madsen's staggering beauty makes it a little more tolerable than most of the scenes on this list, it's still a painfully dull way to open such a lavish epic of a movie, doing the inverse of "show, don't tell."
As such it won't surprise many to learn that David Lynch was forced to add the sequence in reshoots to clarify the plot.
The scene itself even seems vaguely embarrassed of how verbose it is, as Irulan briefly fades out halfway through the monologue, only to return and mention that she forgot tell us all this other stuff.
Cutting this and just kicking off with those gorgeous shots of the Arrakis' desert would've definitely been the right way to go.