Best opening line of a movie?

[UncleRemus]

How bout...

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."

(I think I agree with everyone who said Trainspotting is number one, but A Clockwork Orange has still gotta be up there...)

[supercomputer]

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If we're being serious, I think the third one is from Kids, which is seriously an awesome flick, if you dont mind feeling a little like a pedophile.

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Yes, it's from Kids. What I love about that movie is it takes the plotline from a thriller (detective tries to catch killer before he can kill again) and transposes it to a teen party movie (girl finds out she has aids and tries to catch the guy who gave it to her before he can infect someone else.)

*and also, if you liked Kids, you should also see Bully which is by the same director and just as awesome.

[posnera]

This one is a little obscure. I highly recommend that you see this.

"I was born on April 20, 1925 in Peine...
Germany, Europe...
the fourth child of Azriel Perel...a shoe store owner, and his wife Rebecca.

You won't believe it...
but I remember my circumcision."

- Europa, Europa

[supercomputer]

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of York."

Richard III

[irvman21]

"Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the medical school? I'm supposed to be giving a lecture in twenty minutes and my driver's a bit lost."

[theben]

Part of the opener:

"Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here. "

[posnera]

Huh? I am not a bum, I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things. My friends and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? O.k. It was never for easy for me. I was born a poor black child.

[coolhandkuhn]

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Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball player, the toughest boxer. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Now, an Army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.

We have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. You know, by God I actually pity those poor bastards we’re going up against. By God, I do. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.

Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

Now there’s another thing I want you to remember. I don’t want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We’re not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose.

There’s one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what did you do in the great World War II, you won’t have to say, "Well, I shoveled [censored] in Louisiana."

Alright now, you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh, and I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle – anytime, anywhere.

That’s all.

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Seconded.

Trainspotting gets the nod for the silver medal.

[_TKO_]

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"listen, here's the thing"

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I only opened this thread to see how far up this line would be.

[Borst]

When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.