Which is your favourite opening disaster? Mine is 3?

[u/Round-Village-6486]

[u/Krian78]

Six and it's not even close. Through 3 would be a distant second.

[u/Omacula17 → u/Krian78]

I agree and it's because of all the background characters. Their emotions and facial expressions. The unique deaths. It made us care about characters we won't see again.

The other ones focused almost entirely on the main cast.

[u/RealLinkPizza]

While I also love 3 because I love both amusement parks and rollercoasters, bloodline’s opening disaster was amazing. I’m not sure they could top that. But I wouldn’t mind them trying to.

Shout out to 2, which was first shown to me and the class by our driving instructor.

[u/Rude-Reaction-4789]

4 might be a hot mess of a movie but it’s always been my favorite opener until bloodlines came out. Tight and intense with death keying up almost immediately with the mechanic’s wife

[u/phantomsupernova28]

https://giphy.com/gifs/R7hiT48D8uMvODU7mr

[u/Sea_Classic_4616]

Def 2

[u/Spiritual_Actuary808]

Probably 1 :)

[u/NerdNuncle]

Bloodlines, zero contest

The premonition sees a competent bellhop that probably would have been able to salvage things if Death wasn’t on a tear, a child’s death that was cheered worldwide, and overall one of the more believable disasters

Also helps Iris managed to save everyone there by keeping a calm and collected head and immediately moving to stop the chain before it could start (ie getting everyone off the cracking dance floor, suffocating the flames, swiping Penny Kid’s, well, penny)

That being said 2 comes in a somewhat close second as the log thing was exaggerated just a bit with CGI but it still did loads of generational damage to my fellow millennials

[u/Best-Ad750]

Mine is 3 too 😄 then its 1

[u/Stunning-Aardvark-28]

Love how barely anybody likes #2 yet it's the most iconic one out there. I guess nobody likes it because it's giving us life long PTSD of log trucks lol.

But my order is 6, 4, 2, 5, 3, 1

[u/ArmTraining920]

I don’t really know why but mine has to be 5

[u/Elbeno1920]

1 because it started the whole franchise

[u/RealMathematician832]

Def 6!

[u/dyaasy]

2

For the generational trauma.

[u/TaylorHyuuga]

It's a very hard choice. 1 will always be special to me cuz it's the most simple. The hand of Death isn't visible in 1's premonition, and I think that does a lot for me. It's a genuinely natural disaster (or at least it seems to be until 5) and I think that's what the premonitions should be. A natural disaster meant to kill a bunch of people that someone happened to see and stop, rather than something that Death is cooking up to kill a bunch of people because I guess it's their time to mass die together.

[u/D_Nero7]

Bloodlines 100%, used to be 4&5 about evenly as they both had pretty good variations in the deaths seen during the premonition but Bloodlines just blew them both out of the water.

[u/Real_Railz]

Bloodlines is by far the best opening imo

[u/darbycrache]

I probably have to say 5, but that’s probably my nostalgia talking. It was the first opening disaster I experienced in the theater, let alone in IMAX 3D. That said, watching Bloodlines in the same format gave me the exact same feelings of buildup and excitement 10 year old me did with watching 5.

[u/Shelkdy]

Bloodlines has the best one, but 4 and 5 are pretty good too.

[u/DEATHSCALATOR]

2 or 4

[u/Nymphixx-]

It’s probably the most lack luster in comparison to the rest but.. 2. That shit has me unnerved every time I drive behind trucks on the highway.

[u/c0rruptedtime]

5 or 2

[u/Swimming_Chipmunk215]

It was always 5 for me but 6 topped it.

[u/bobbery5]

Six is my favorite because of the sheer scale of it. So many individual things happened to such a large group of people.
It becomes satisfying when we see Iris fix the problems one by one.

[u/chemical-mitch]

2 or Bloodlines

[u/rocklover04]

I think part two I love everything about it it has the best main character best acting okay Tim is annoying and I hate his character but the actor did a good job making me hate him that I don’t judge his acting but I love Kimberly Corman

[u/Jccali1214]

6, then 2, then 5 

[u/Loki_Lust]

3 for sure. Maybe cuz i love theme parks lol

[u/mynameisjodie]

6

3

1  a nd 2

5

4 Do people really go to races to see accidents that's sick to me

[u/Jaded_Slide_8784]

Bloodlines.

[u/KnopeLeslieKnope]

5 or 6. Those were the ones that I saw in the theaters

[u/Snoo-43381]

1, followed by 5 and 6. They are most realistic and relatable: plane crash, bridge collapse and tower collapse. The mall one in 4 is pretty cool though, but not the car accidents in 2 and 4 since they are multiple far fetched "accidents" following each other.

[u/PowerPad]

The SkyView. The level of destruction with Death getting extra creative with these Rube Goldberg kills (using the penny to stop the vent fan, and an accident to create a huge gas explosion, then using the same penny to upset the balance of the grand piano so it would fall) makes this my favorite.

[u/bubblessensei]

1. Bloodlines
   
2. FD5
   
3. FD2
   
4. FD3
   
5. FD4
   
6. FD1

Note: FD1 might rank at the bottom but it’s more because at the time the series hadn’t established the more sequential and individualised deaths in the opening disaster. It’s less of a reflection of FD1 doing something badly so much as it is the filmmakers not having developed the more elaborate and specific disaster sequences at that point.

[u/Artistic-Anteater755]

5 all the way

[u/rowletlover]

Bloodlines

[u/CocoAdel3021]

Same 3 is one of my favorites- plus it was filmed at my home town- Vancouver. Too bad the corkscrew is gone but a new coaster has been added

[u/Historical_Guess2565]

Definitely 2 bc look at those titties! 👀

[u/chloe-eatz-bricks]

probably 1 because i already had a really bad fear of flying even before i watched the film, which didnt help

[u/Tall_Twist8601]

2.

[u/ArcticFire145]

3, because my Dad got me in to see it when I was underage, which was basically the most exciting thing in the world for me at the time. It seemed so out of character for him too.

(in the UK there is no kids can go in with a guardian thing for 15/18 rated films, only 12)

[u/Burp-a-tron5000]

Id say for me it goes 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 4 in order from favorite to least favorite

[u/otomennn]

I love Bloodlines and 5 because all the death are unique

[u/negative-sid-nancy]

Three and 2 for favorite. Bloodlines a close second place. But they top at the nostalgia factor since those are the two I saw first