this has to be relevant to this forum, i wouldent trust some fags in Moving pictures to know what a good explosion looks like. I would love a realistic explosion with no gas fireball, but not many movies manage that.

For realistic explosions a movie I really liked was tremors, as his huge pipe bombs just made a nice dirt cloud instead of a huge fireballs.

Hmm good question I suppose. I really have no clue but id have to sayy when they blow the house in Cuba up in Bad Boys 2. It's the only thing that comes to mind. Oh and Swordfish has a good scene where the hostage escapes or something.

also, that bombing scene 1984 dune (when the base was being attacked)was pretty leet, it had fireballs, but it gave me the sense that someones shit is SERIOUSLY being ruined by that airstrike. maybe thats just me though.

The Wages Of Fear (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/): The scene where the 2 nitro filled trucks come across a gigantic boulder in the mountain road, and the only way to proceed is blowing it up with some of their cargo. Not too flashy, but unrivaled suspence, and the procedure of setting up the nitro in the rock. Also has the aftermath where right after rocks are landing near the trucks, and this one rock is just about to hit one of the jerry cans.

Amazing film.

Sorcerer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/):
Remake of wages of fear, but instead of a rock in the path they encounter a gigantic tree. Seeing this tree explode, shattering into a million splinters is more epic than any fireball.

The movie is overall not as good as the original but is nice just for that scene.

Tremors 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114720/):
The big explosion at the end was one of the best ones I have seen in hollywood. Nice massive scale.

KOYAANISQATSI (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/): Nothing beats the Pruit Igoe scene with all the buildings being imploded to epic music by Philip Glass. Also props for real footage.

Raising Arizona (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/):
;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/

I like the explosions caused by the artillery shells in Saving private Ryan, and the explosions in Fight club.

Beat me to it, the explosions in Saving Private Ryan are excellent.

I think the sound techies for that film made the gun 'splat' sounds by hanging huge lumps of raw meat, and then recording the sounds made when they shot them with various different guns. :)

while I thoroughly enjoy(ed) Fight Club, I have to say that scene at the end contained some of the worst movie explosions ever.

Or so I thought.

grr im still out of commision. anyway yeah, the way fightclub did it pissed me off, they tried to make it like it was a controlled detonation of a commerical structure (but not really), but then they said it was a van of NG in the basement.. the first time i saw it I expected a oklahoma city style explosion.. i guess they did it just so it would fit in with that song they had in the very end.

the explosions on the movies stealth were aparently so big that they had to register with N.A.S.A

Police Story (starring jackie chan) Completely unrealistic but fucking SWEET explosion scene. Let me see if it's on youtube...

O rly? I didn't see anything too mentionable on thar.

The explosion of the Death Star.

lethal weapon 4, gas station.

the scene in back alley bitches 9 where that dude made a love explosion all over that chicks face!


actual answer, im going with the death star, when i was little i thought that was the best. but also another good one was in dawn of the dead in the beginning where you got that aerial view of the city and you see that car fucking smash into the gas station and explode. that was pretty neat...

O rly? I didn't see anything too mentionable on thar.
YA RLY!
just what they said on the promo behind the scenes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_LbzcqWP4

And the crash of Executor into Death Star II

and the explosion of Death Star II.

And the various shit that blew up in the Battle of Endor.

Definetly all the explosions in the thunderbirds series especially the one at the end of the title sequence! :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bpfg01nZdgI

How did they get such a realistic explosion on such a small scale?

I think I brought it up in a tread before but I just love it so much!

You can tell what I was obsessed with as a kid.:)

AvP, the one where the Predator blows up the Alien eggs.

[Tom Cruise's] War of the Worlds, much as I hated the film, had some brilliant explosions.

And of course Fight Club. Not for the effects, though. Just because of the impact of that last scene. And the TV store's display.

And the crash of Executor into Death Star II

and the explosion of Death Star II.

And the various shit that blew up in the Battle of Endor.

I totally agree.......

for special effects in 1977
The Tie fighters exploding in StarWars were Awesome.
The Nostromo exploding in Alien was awesome as well.

The molotovs in 28 Days Later. Fucking zombies.

i feel asleep watching 28 weeks later

and when i woke up people were screaming and dieing so i started screaming coz i was so freaked out

Saving private ryan. The part where the guy is carrying the sticky bomb and doesnt get to the tank in time. He fucking vaporises :D.

Children of men. The opening scene at the cafe. No fireball, no slowly propagating mushroom cloud, just a massive bang, black smoke, flying debris, and perfectly beliveable. It looked incredibly realistic, especially the moments just after it. It was actually pretty frightening.

The chopper crashing into the building in the first matrix movie

the one in lethal weapon 3 at the start. loved that 1 :D

best explosion i've ever seen was when mythbusters blew up a cement truck. anyone remember that 1?

Terminator 2 : The nuke explosion.

Also, since Im posting in BB, I would like to remind you all that I own warweed12's soul, and he named his son after me.

Terminator 2 : The nuke explosion

Beat me to it.

Also (the movie sucked) but Terminator 3 at the end with all the nukes blowing up the world. That ruled.

Tremors 2 was a good one.

Live Free or Die Hard where McClaine fucks that helicopter up by himself.

Crank when that guy dives on the grenade.

The pirate ship going boom in Cutthroat Island. Tons of wood splinters going every which way = teh goodness.

Paris going boom in Armageddon.

Comet impact in Deep Impact. Absolutely beautiful.

Seismic charges in Attack of the Clones were awesome. As was the opening scene in Revenge of the Sith.

And you guys left out every major landmark in Independence Day? What the hell is wrong with you guys?

-Dust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_LbzcqWP4

Absolute win. My heartrate went up about 10%.

Helm's Deep explosion from LOTR: The Two Towers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pgbtFKhTEwo
Skip to 3:10 for explosion.

Dr. Strangelove

Tremors 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkWKB53wwig

*hides behind shed*

"No, no! Keep going! It's gonna be BIG!"

best explosion i've ever seen was when mythbusters blew up a cement truck. anyone remember that 1?

probably my fave.

i knw its not a film, but on dead rising. Right at the beginning when the petrol station blows up and the zombies are all walking out dying, on fire. BASTARDS

Underworld: Evolution

There's a small FAE grenade that caught my attention. When activated, the hockey puck shaped device releases a cloud of compressed aerosol fuel. A short time later, two electrodes pop up and strike an electrical arc, igniting the fuel. The resulting explosion was a somewhat realistic fireball, but a little too big for a device that small.

It makes me want to build one...

it's probably been said but the end of fight club... and then the destruction of parliament in v for vendetta is my second favorite..

I love the explosion they reuse in starship troopers

Saving Private Ryan, Die hard (the one with the plane and the ejection seat), Desperado (when Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek are walking away), V for Vendetta (parliament blowing up), Resident Evil Apocalypse (the nuke).

probably my fave.

One of these day's ill make it bigger than that 1 was :P

Is it sad that the only three movies I own with explosions are Monty Python, Small Soldiers and V for Vendetta?

Does small soldiers even count?

I think they should have used the characters from small soldiers for a vietnam special forces movie.

Dr. Strangelove

Beat me to it

Meh, who "owns" movies nowadays anyway? I have a huge bank of them on my hard drive, and maybe 10 proper movie DVDs.

Meh, who "owns" movies nowadays anyway? I have a huge bank of them on my hard drive, and maybe 10 proper movie DVDs.

Counting those I have several other movies. But since I got a job I prefer buying them, and having them on DVDs. Means I can play them on my PS2 as well :)

buy a ps3 and get your divx

Dude, xbox 360 can kick PS3's ass