6. The Bomb - The Hurt Locker
An already extremely intense opening scene is made even more exciting with the use of slow-motion. A team of bomb experts attempting to defuse a bomb realise there's nothing they can do, and one of the team gets caught in the blast, causing director Kathryn Bigelow - who won a Best Director Oscar for her work here - to cut to a heart-stopping slow-motion image of the bomb detonating in the background as the soldier desperately flees in the foreground. Exceptional sound editing combines with some gorgeous imagery of dirt flying into the air and a car contorting from the shock-wave of the bomb to give the explosion an even more visceral thrust. If many films abuse this sort of effect, The Hurt Locker was rewarded with Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Best Director Oscars, as well as its Best Picture win, of course.