10 Movie Openings That Totally Trolled Audiences

These tricksy openings got EVERYBODY.
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[@StephenLeGresley]

The Living Daylights - The scene opens with 3 spies who look like Sean Connery, Roger Moore and George Lazenby all get killed off in a mission before revealing Timothy Dalton as a the new real Bond.

[@SighManP]

The beginning of Swordfish is the best

[@billyjo316]

We totally forgot, who framed Roger rabbit as a kid when I saw it I was freaked out when the real actors came in

[@MaxModded]

It' unbelievable that Who Framed Roger Rabbit isn't on this list. Maybe it's on the first list, since the "more" in this title suggests this is an additional list? I hope so.

[@augiegirl1]

I went back & found the first video (it was 2 years ago) & Roger Rabbit isn't on there.

[@corywofford9976]

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has one of the best troll openings ever. It starts with a short film no one was expecting which doesn't feature a single member of the MP cast until the last minute, making everyone think they're watching the wrong movie.

[@Sunprism]

I suppose it's more of a mid-opening.....But I Loved how Deadpool 2, pre-release, was marketed completely around his new team, With some big celebrity and comic book names, some mystery, and hyping up X-Force.....And then they immediately all die, Perfect. I should of known when they added Zeitgeist to the team

[@htogr26]

Loved Cabin in the Woods, but I knew the movie's premise in advance. Great ending, though!

[@cellscribe]

I wonder if the opening of Citizen Kane would act as trolling? The suggestion of Rosebud, the searching for the meaning throughout the movie, the reveal at the end and the actual meaning of the term as it related to William Randolph Hearst.

[@benmcfee]

I agree but I'm not sure if it counts because it was _only_ trolling Hearst... and possibly his mistress.

[@weasle5022]

Reno 911 movie intro, the "you know you're driving" part always has me chuckle

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

MI3 is such a damn good film!

[@bazzer124]

EVERY original Star Trek series fan knows about the Kobayashi Maru scenario. And all the films were geared to Trekkies, so this came as a surprise to no one in the theaters. It's like saying fans were surprised Spock was Vulcan. It's hardcore canon. Cheers....

[@augiegirl1]

The openings of Star Trek Generations & First Contact likely also fit this definition (in Generations, Kirk appears to die saving the Enterprise B, & in First Contact, Picard has a dream within a dream of being re-assimilated before really waking up).

[@MaxModded]

"Leave the screen and get a refund..." Who gets refunds for movie tickets? Is that even a thing? Buying a movie ticket is like buying fruit or going on a blind date -- it's a gamble.

[@jamespope7669]

People got refunds for brokeback mountain.

[@MaxModded]

@@jamespope7669 I'm just going to say this once. That's gross.

[@MollyStar1979]

The beginning of “Team America: World Police” had my friend and I in absolute stitches. Seeing those goofy puppets when we saw the quality puppets a la the old “THUNDERBIRDS” series, we just couldn’t help but start laughing. We simultaneously did and did not know what to expect from those blokes, and we were immediately hooked, happy, laughing, and could not wait for the rest of the hilarity to unfold. What an absolute treasure. I was only disappointed by a couple of harsh jabs, but, with them, no one is sacred or safe from their scrutiny. Still so quotable, too! 😂

[@paulweston8408]

I honestly thought that was Margot Robbie at the beginning of Scream 6! Her and Weaving look like twins imho.

[@camaronshoultz6137]

While I love MI 3 opening it actually doesn’t make sense. Why would this cold hearted arms dealer fake kill Ethan’s wife?! Why would he keep her alive at all?

[@brentcrewse4218]

Simple. The translator failed him earlier in the movie. The real Julia was inconsequential and more of a chore to track down and kidnap than just use his translator whom he was going to kill anyway.

[@michaelrue1400]

The "Anything Goes" number at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had me wondering if I was watching the wrong movie for a minute.

[@MollyStar1979]

“The Cabin in the Woods” *did* get me. I had missed it in theaters when it released because the trailer made it seem like a really meh “EVIL DEAD” rip off. I moved away for college, but kept a tradition of going home for Halloween to trick or treat with my niece, and, when we were all done, I’d head over to my best friends house to hand out/eat candy and watch a horror film before I’d drive back to school. He suggested the movie and I told him it looked stupid. He assured me it wasn’t, and when we sat through that opening, I turned to him and said, “Did you accidentally select the wrong movie from the menu,” he shhhhhhhed me and then I turned back for that loud scream jump scare of the title card, and it was all so amazing. One of my very favorite Halloweens in my memory.

[@free2trvl]

I one hundred percent thought I was in the wrong movie for cabin in tne woods, but the dialog was so joss whedon and then Amy Acker came on screen and I knew I just had to wait lol

[@daviddejong3894]

The Sixth Sense.

[@robvegas9354]

Mission Impossible 3, far out my friends and i walked out of the theatre after the movie in silence to the car drove for about 5 minutes still in silence until one guy said 'that was absolute sh!t' ..... every else said 'yes'. one of the guys wanted me to turn the car around so we could get our money back. terrible film.

[@mgfan81]

Jack Napier being the man who murdered the Waynes...THAT was a troll. Everyone knows it was Joe Chill (BTW: rumoured to be in the new "The Batman" sequel as the next villain...guess who it is just by Chill's name alone, wink wink.)

[@tenzingnorgay93]

I don’t know if the opening of Nocturnal Animals can be described as trolling, but it definitely was off-putting, to say the least.

[@jamespope7669]

I never once thought the beginning of Batman was his origin being told. Always knew from the start it was clearly leading up to Batman taking down a couple of small time punks. Did you notice the prostitute wanted business with the little boy.

[@williamdavis3776]

Turned off Jurassic World Dominion within the first couple minutes after seeing dinosaurs running through snow.

[@steevobarker581]

Opening to Cannonball Run! 👍👍

[@JonnyOpinionated]

Come on my dude! Team America was made with marionettes not puppets.

[@grahamduke7377]

Come on, my douche! Marionettes are a type of puppet.

[@n-rage531]

Arrival is overrated

[@jrocsexy]

Don't get the "genius" people say Arrival is, but maybe I need another re-watch. (And yes, I got it the first time around, lol)

[@SpamEggSausage]

Nothing about the elephant in the room, which is that they made the Simpsons movie long after the show stopped being good.🐘

[@kevinmurry8803]

That Batman (1989) opening was a total fakeout. But a good one though.

[@JPIbanez84]

No, it wasn't. Their outfits make it pretty obvious they're not rich folks like the Waynes.

[@kevinmurry8803]

@@JPIbanez84 Everyone's not a fashion or fabric expert.

[@djmasey420]

Lemony Snicket opening scene about a happy little elf.

[@Giambijuice]

Lemony Snicket is actually on the first list that was done 2 years ago

[@BarnabyJones07]

I wasnt trolled, more so emotionally traumatized, by the opening of Up

[@dylanogg347]

Another amusing fact for #5. Soon after the start of the movie, there's a hilariously bad Puppet Fight which misleads those watching for the first time that this is how all the fights in the film will look. But all the other fights in the film are great, so this was just a great prank on the part of Parker and Stone.

[@MollyStar1979]

My sister and I used to fight like that to crack up our friends and our parents after that movie had come out. 😂

[@phillipscheid4505]

I literally watched Batman (1989) a few nights ago to get prepared for The Flash, and that scene did catch me off guard... Until I realised the names of that family were different. Then it all came back to me.

[@JPIbanez84]

Didn't notice how the couple and the kid were dressed as common folks and not Gotham royalty, huh?

[@robinpendrigh2608]

Scream VI started off in a seemingly by the book, paint by numbers manner. Then it actually looked like it was going to do something interesting for a minute before descending into mediocrity. A missed opportunity.

[@markzuckergecko621]

Team America is both laughably poor quality, and insanely detailed and well put together, simultaneously. And it's amazing. They clearly did certain things "bad" on purpose, just to make it dumber and funnier, like the way the puppets violently jerk around when they walk🤣🤣🤣 Stone and Parker are not right in the head, in the best way.

[@SpamEggSausage]

the best jokes in that movie were at the expense of how goofy looking the puppets were, for example, the shot of an obvious real guy riding a motorcycle cutting to a shot of a puppet on a toy motorcycle

[@alm2187]

The two newest excuses for Scream movies are trolling the audience start to finish.

[@kevinmurry8803]

Coincidentally, there is a Star Trek movie marathon coming on a local channel today.

[@ItsCliffGaming]

Mission Impossible 3 has one of the best opening scenes of all times.

[@raja.m.wajahat]

Hope you're doing good Josh.

[@rome8180]

I wouldn't say playing with audience expectations is the same thing as "trolling" the audience.

[@PanteraRossa]

Scream 6 opening was foreshadowing how insanely stupid the movie would end up being. I know this misdirection is basically a trope in this franchise but the reality of how this "plan" is supposed to work in the story world is absolutely idiotic. Don't even get me started how a detective can plant the corpse of his own daughter in a crime scene without anyone realizing it's not her. Like no autopsy was ordered?? I know the NYPD is slacking but bro, how stupid do you think your audience is??

[@medafan53]

Huh, I didn't remember the Batman one. In hindsight I suppose that the final scene of Gotham's 3rd season was a homage to that.

[@dumymariposa6795]

Whaaaaaat?!Bruce Wayne's parents were killed?!I wish we would have gotten to see that, at least once!

[@GoddessGirl2121]

Since this is ten more openings, where can I find the first list? Does it have a different name?

[@zwordsman]

Evil dead scalps then blades

[@causeimdeep]

What's the movie this video opens with? with the girl falling, looks so familiar

[@Mickfly718]

Mulholland Drive, the scene where the two main characters are in an auditorium watching a singer on stage before one of them “wakes up.”

[@jesseszymcik3026]

Wow. Haven’t watched a Batman movie in so very long. I totally forgot how hurt and personally attacked i felt with the bait and switch beginning. I felt it was unnecessarily manipulative.

[@jenx5870]

I can honestly say that the only movie I saw was MI:3. I haven't seen any of the others, nor heard of some of these. It certainly made for a very confusing watch for me, lol.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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[@marcjameswhelan]

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