The most annoying way to start a script is… The Average Morning. Whether it’s the mom getting those scampy kids off to school and Dad off to the office or the schlubby person waking up in their messy room and slobbing their way to work to get inevitably fired or the Single White Successful but Neurotic Girl Exec jumping onto her Peloton bike, then rattling off a complicated no-fat soy breakfast beverage order. Even writing about these openings is boring.
The Average Morning is the worst because nothing happens, it’s just bland and promises a very bland script with a super soft second act because a writer who would open with these tropes is almost certainly not sure what their story is about.
Somewhere down the line, it may be decided that The Average Morning is a good opening for the film, but it is never a good choice to open a script because The Average Morning is a red flag of doom to readers.
BONUS HORROR/ACTION WORST OPENING: Someone you don’t know is torture-murdered in detail by someone else you don’t know. Indicates the writer is a sex pest and the script will be about sex-pestishness on every level.
Best opening? Conveys a great deal of interesting information with visuals, introducing a situation and/or character as something out of the ordinary. Bottom line – if you’ve seen it before, especially if you’ve seen it many times before, don’t use it as an opening.