Steven Spielberg s 10 Best Opening Shots Ranked

Arachnophobes scared of films featuring spiders and insects must have freaked out watching the opening of Raiders, when both Indy and Satipo discover tarantulas crawling all over them. It's a nerve-wracking scene, especially considering that the spiders are, in fact, real. However, they aren't native to South America, where the opening scene takes pl


Then, a wider shot reveals the thing that was ripping through the trees: a large truck, carrying a heavy-duty cage. It slowly becomes apparent that there’s a dinosaur in the cage, and these guys aren’t equipped to handle


The Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies opens with Rudolf Abel, technically the film’s antagonist, looking at himself in the mirror in his cramped New York apartment. As the camera pans out, we realize he’s trying to capture all of his own features in a self-portrait he’s painting. In a matter of seconds, Spielberg establishes that this is a mild-mannered man with a solitary existe


The Gunlancer is what most MMORPGs might refer to as the basic tank character, and the class is a bit of a damage sponge. That doesn't mean it's not a formidable character when it decides to go on the attack, though: The Gunlancer's attacks centered around gun-type attacks like "Hook Chain" and "Fire Bull

From the minds of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and brought to life on the big screen by Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones is undoubtedly one of the best cinematic heroes of all time. Though he is a professor of archaeology in his day job, Jones spends his spare time traveling the globe and facing danger while recovering long lost artifa


There's a bizarre goof near the end of the second act when Indy and Marion manage to escape the Well of Souls and make their way over to the Nazi airplane. After they emerge from the tomb, a seemingly unconscious man can be seen in one of the wide shots slumped against the rocks to the l


Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best example of Indy as a cinematic hero. From the very first scene, as he goes through the temple filled with boobytraps to his iconic "fight" with the swordsman, he is a hero that explodes off the scr


An action movie is perfectly passable if it has a couple of fistfights and explosions and a wisecracking hero, but the very best movies that the genre has to offer go above and beyond with visceral camerawork, breathtaking stunts, and sharp storytelling driven by action. Directors like John Woo and James Cameron have brought an artfulness to action cinema that legitimized the ge


Legend has it that Steven Spielberg was considering directing a James Bond movie before George Lucas convinced him to take on an original hero instead. And Indiana Jones was certainly set apart from other big-screen heroes. He was smarter than the average good guy, and while he got beat-up often, he could handle himself in a fi


It’s appropriate that the movie begins with a pan down from the night sky, filled with stars, that settles on a familiar forest landscape. It symbolizes E.T.’s arrival on Earth from up there. It also straps us in for a movie that brings science-fiction concepts to our doors


The totally black frame could be read to represent the bleak reality of living in Nazi-occupied Poland, while the match could be seen to represent the beacon of hope that emerges in the form of Oskar Schindler, when he comes to his senses, renounces the Nazi Party, and uses his resources to save 1,200 Jews from concentration camps. The majority of this three-hour epic is shot in black-and-white , but it opens in color. It only turns to black-and-white when that candle burns


He is later revealed to be a Soviet spy. The American press vilifies him as his appointed lawyer, James Donovan, agrees to fairly argue his case in court. This opening shot captures the nuances of Mark Rylance’s performance as A


According to the Bible, the shattered tablets were not placed in the Ark of the Covenant. A second set of tablets were forged and placed within the Ark. The writers might have gotten confused by the events of Deuteronomy 10, where God supposedly instructed Moses to create a different Ark made out of wood to place the broken tabl


Though both movies have action sequences that rank among the best of all-time, The Last Crusade edges out the original. From the opening train fight to the boat chase through Venice to the wild tank battle, these action scenes come one after another and are all extremely impress


This series has always known the importance of throwing some comedy in with all the action and adventure elements. Each movie has its share of genuinely funny moments, but The Last Crusade has the biggest lau


Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ work on Raiders of the Lost Ark updates Ark , harking back to the pulpy adventure serials of the 1930s, resulted in one of the most timeless, unique, and entertaining entries in the entire ge

The last of the Jurassic Park movies with middling reviews was from Spielberg himself and centered on Jeff Goldblum's side character from the original movie, Dr. Ian Malcolm , as he travels to the previously-unexplored second island of the Park's prehistoric wo