Short List 2/21/12

Here are my opening scenes for the week:

Jaws - There aren't many movies that can top the thrill and suspense of Jaws. It is one of the greatest and well-known movies of all time and that is why it is on my list.

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Hunting for treasure, Arrows flying everywhere, Booby traps about ready to blow, and then there is the classic boulder ready to demolish anything in his path especially an agile little man named Indiana Jones.

Mission Impossible 3: Some of Tom Cruise’s best acting comes in these first five minutes, in which Ethan Hunt, chained to a chair, attempts to convince an eerily calm Philip Seymour Hoffman not to kill his fiancee. Maybe not the best opening scene but I love this movie.