"How could I not at least give a little bit of love to a movie that opens with a gigantic Godzilla-scale action sequence about a giant dragon, and then goes, 'That was pretty cool, huh? Okay, here's the movie.'"
"Big deal is that action movies always start off with the same thing, like something big blows up!"
—Donald Holt lampshading this very trope, in the 2002 Direct to Video action-comedy movie Shattered Lies.
