I've always loved the openings of the films because they're always unique. The most recent two did a fantastic job with setting the tone of the films, which are progressively heading in darker territory every minute of their run time.
The Half Blood Prince had a fantastic opening in just the first 30 seconds where it briefly shows the after math of the battle with Voldemort in the ministry. It's effective with it's haunting score, Daniel Radcliffe's vacant expression after his traumatic ordeal and combined with the flashing of camera's riddled with Voldemort's intense battle cry, the whole sequence is quite unsettling and re rigs the franchise into the homestretch of dark things to come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHh_ldUF2U
The Deathly Hallows Part One had an equally unsettling and quite scary opening with the decaying Warner Brothers Logo floating out of the black clouds before fading to black. This is followed by a rising clockwork clicking (presumably of the locket), screeching and wilderness which becomes increasingly louder before cutting to the first scenes of the film. It's intense and signifies hostility the world has fallen into and how dark things have become. I find it remarkable that all of this is conveyed in just 30 seconds of screen time yet again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtms4B1pO8
And finally, to get to the point for which this post was made, a screen cap of the opening sequence of the final film has surfaced and it looks like we're yet again to impress with the most foreboding and violent title sequence yet. To put my thoughts into words, the wait for this movie is killing me inside. Feast your eyes:
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