10 Most Imaginative Shots On Film

Hollywood movies can feature as little as a few hundred shots per movie and up to several thousand on the Michael Bay side of things, but how often do you see a movie image that truly burns itself into your brain?

Further still, how often do you see a shot in a movie and become obsessed with how it was achieved? These 10 shots, pushing visual effects, cinematography and sheer directorial skill to a new dimension as they did, left film buffs fascinated with the eye-popping visual insanity they'd just witnessed.

Every single one of them is a technical marvel in its own right, be it a tricksy visual effects shot or a simpler image achieved with state-of-the-art lensing techniques.

Whether instant-classic images from movies of this decade or unforgettable shots from 75 years ago, each will be discussed as an example of timeless, peerless filmmaking and cinematography forever more.

There are great shots, and then there are images so creative and visionary they basically help rewrite the potential of the medium...