9 Lame Opening Scenes In Otherwise Great Movies

During the classic original Superman film, Kal-El lives his entire life. Like, his ENTIRE life: the film literally starts with him as a small child.

Let's jump ahead a little bit. Throughout the film, Clark realizes he has powers, deals with the responsibility of them, creates the Fortress of Solititude, and then flies to Metropolis to start his life. That happens about halfway through the film. The rest is him macking on Lois Lane and punching Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor. It's a great flick.

But the first half hour of the film is about Krypton. You know that home planet no one really cares about because the whole point of it is that it explodes? Yeah, well, the first half hour of this movie is Marlon Brando wandering around a leftover set from Flash Gordon while mumbling about the planet exploding. That takes up a good quarter of the entire film.

You know how origin stories are boring and passe? Imagine a film that begins with a half hour origin story that takes place while the main character is a two month old. Eventually we get to Earth where there's flying, the cutest date in cinema history, and Gene Hackman gorging himself on the scenery. But before that we need to sit through a Kryptonian history lesson. Yay.