Best movie explosions ever.
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The opening sequence of Apocalypse Now. A treeline is lit up overlayed by The Doors "The End". So powerful and haunting.
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3 come to mind immediately:
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, either version, the destruction of the earth.
Dr. Strangelove, the ending shot.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, the explosion of the safe and Baggage car. " Think ya used enought dynamite there, Butch. " a truly Mal Reynolds moment.
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When Terminatrix Kristiana Loken blew up her chest a tad to impress the cop who pulled her over.
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Originally posted by Riverlove:
When Terminatrix Kristiana Loken blew up her chest a tad to impress the cop who pulled her over.
Perv,:kidding:
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The shield generator explosion from Return of the Jedi.
I'll see you that, and raise you the Death Star II, explosion and fade into fireworks on Endor only. Not the new release with all the celebrations, the original, Sabastian Shaw WAS Anakin's ghost version.
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Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, either version, the destruction of the earth.
I'd vote for the original radio version
- although the way they "imploded" the earth in the movie was quite imaginative.The BBC TV version was the usual "planet disappears and is replaced with a firework" thing - but then they'd spent the entire effects budget on failing to give Zaphod a convincing second head.
Best "earth going foom" sequence for my money is actually in a book (the effects are always better in books): "Forge of God" by Greg Bear.
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Originally posted by PhyreLight:Quote:The tastiest explosion ever... it reminds me of camping and bonfire trips.
Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
Ghostbusters. The largest marshmallow explosion ever.]
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Is there a site which has the clips so we can peruse?
Off hand, I'm going to throw in Terminator, dream sequence nuke. That was awesome. Esp. for the day. with the playground and sarah getting shredded. That was just a brilliant scene.
Recently, I liked the day after tomorrow, visually, that was some good weather porn. Scientific nonsense, trite as hell story with plotholes you can drive a truck through, but who cares, it was awesome.
I like a lot of the kabooms mentioned here.
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Is there a site which has the clips so we can peruse?
Off hand, I'm going to throw in Terminator, dream sequence nuke. That was awesome. Esp. for the day. with the playground and sarah getting shredded. That was just a brilliant scene.
Recently, I liked the day after tomorrow, visually, that was some good weather porn. Scientific nonsense, trite as hell story with plotholes you can drive a truck through, but who cares, it was awesome.
I like a lot of the kabooms mentioned here.
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Death Star II's blow up and Parliament Hill's destruction in V FOR VENDETTA are some of my faves as well. But one of my favorites was the locomotive plunging into the ravine at the end of BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III. After that insanely tense moment of the Delorean powering up just as it's about to hit the barricade with Marty in it and it jumping through time right before the Delorean hits it, the locomotive going off the tracks and exploding is actually the breather. When the audience can finally relax after what I personally think is the best action sequence I've ever seen. And I like the little foreshadowing of it earlier in the film.
"What about the locomotive?"
"It'll be a spectacular wreck. Too bad no one will be around to see it."
One classic one not mentioned is when Butch and Sundance blow up the rail car. They're only trying to blow off the door to the safe, but they end up blowing up the entire car inadvertently. When the dust settles, Sundance then says "You use enough dynamite there, Butch?"
Two recent explosions I liked were in TROPIC THUNDER when the explosion guy mistakes the signal and sets off the very expensive set-up way too early, thus ruining the day. And then the other one where Steve Coogan inadvertently blows himself up. "The chopper is God. You are my disciples, and I am Jesus Christ. Let's go make the greatest war film EVER!!"*turns around, hears a click* Hmmm." BOOM. Explodes right in front of the actors, but Tugg's so narcississtic, he thinks it's fake. "It's just latex and corn syrup.(tastes the blood of the director's severed head) Warm, blood flavored corn syrup, but corn syrup nonetheless."
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