What are the most impressive explosions in film & TV?

>>212129670 (OP)
the sky station in Stealth is a good one, that and Biel in a blue bikini

>>212129670 (OP)
Blowing up the hospital in The Dark Knight, since they just found an actual building scheduled for demolition building they could get permission to explode it on camera

>>212129670 (OP)
The bridge in Florida that they used for True Lies was a pretty good one

>>212129670 (OP)
Nuke detonating over Kansas City im The Day After was infinitely better than Oppenheimer's wet fart of a nuke

Word

>>212131761
Also the nightmare of a nuke going off in LA in Terminator 2

>>212129670 (OP)
I like the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where they use way too much dynamite and end up blowing up the vault they were trying to gain access to

>>212129670 (OP)
Helm's Deep

The airstrike in Transformers 2 when they have to run from the blast zone is pretty good

Still one of the coolest effects shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_IPiVDdLc

>>212131793
Anything besides Oppenheimer. What a fucking disappointment

Not terribly impressive effectives, but I support the idea.

This is 16 KT bomb
The Trinity detonation was 21 KT
Consider how awful Oppenheimer's """"explosion"""" looks compared to even this smaller bomb. The movie was bad and Nolan should feel bad.

>>212132811
Oppy's bomb genuinely looked like something I'd see in a C-list action movie from the 80s or like lame CGI in Star Trek:TNG

>>212132588
>>212132811
The actual buildup to and reaction to the nuke was good, but I think they should have only shown people's reactions plus the massive glow of light from off-screen and the earth shaking and dust clouds falling, actually showing the explosion itself just didn't work because they were determined to get as much practical effects as possible and you can't really do that magnitude of an explosion practically, so it looked far too small and normal.

>>212133030
>The actual buildup to and reaction to the nuke was good,
That's what made the explosion way worse. Again The Day After did some pretty creative stuff with the film itself to make their nuke explosions look really menacing. For all the memeing about him, Nolan is a competent filmmaker, can't believe he saw that wet noodle and thought *good enough*

>>212133152
And hell, he's no stranger to explosions. His own previous film got cited in the thread >>212131603, they blew the fuck out of that whole building and it was really impressive in that film. It's just a nuke is a different magnitude of destruction altogether and he either had to hide the actual explosion, or accept that he would need to rely mainly on digital effects to create it. Cameron understood it, a long time ago now >>212132588, it's a nearly unfathomable level of destruction from a human perspective.

>>212133030
>they were determined to get as much practical effects as possible
This is an admirable goal...but only if it works, which it clearly didn't in this movie. If they couldn't achieve the climactic moment of the movie satisfactorily with practical effects then they should have realized it, cut there losses and found a different solution.

>>212133388
Even just a few cuts would probably improve it, they showed a couple of distance shots and it makes it the explosion look very small and not at all otherworldly, if you removed those it might come off better. If you're solidly against the idea of doing a digital shot of the entire blast radius and shockwave, anyway.

I think they probably only had the budget for one explosion, and where stuck reacting to this underwhelming nothingburger as a result. That's why most of the shots are of people reacting, or anything other than the actual explosion. It looks pathetic compared to even the archive footage of the real trinity test.
>Oppenheimers fart
https://youtu.be/tK0IDmSYYGk?si=l-BffAVmNJpjqerq&t=55

>actual trinity test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMeI-pyKPM

>>212133030
There's an edit someone did a while back where they cut the score and everything but the reaction shots and it was definitely way more effective. Just a haunting silence and all these different faces trying to reconcile what they're witnessing.

>>212133755
even here just a few trims would improve it so much. This is powerful looking.

>>212133942
This isn't

mythbusters had a couple of bangers

>>212129670 (OP)
The Trinity explosion in season 3 of Twin Peaks is the best CGI explosion ever filmed. The Oppenheimer explosion might be the most disappointing explosion of all time since the entire 3 hour long movie revolves around it. Even the Dark Knight hospital explosion had more impact to it, and that was just a single building.

>>212133957
>the moment the cement truck just sort of... stops existing

>>212129670 (OP)

The Road Warrior. No CGI, no gimmicks, just a shit load of dynamite and gasoline getting blown up.

https://youtu.be/ACnod6hEQrc?t=168

>>212133955
I look at this and instantly know it's just deceptive filming, like how they shot the hobbits to look like midgets in LOTR.
>>212133942
him glimpsing something like that through a veiwer that was basically some shots from the old nuclear tests would have been preferable. Or just give in and use CGI for this one bit, maybe CGI to "fluff up" their practical effects explosion into a more proper mushroom cloud

>>212133955
In fact it doesn't even match the intense lighting of the scene, it doesn't look like it should cause that level of light so far away (because it quite literally did not, lighting rigs did). So it's illusion breaking at a pivotal moment.

This is a great scene, movie was kind of meh aside from the slutty terminatrix. But the nukes where kino.

>>212133955
It's the lake of a shockwave more than anything, it just doesn't look like an explosion that would that amount of light.

>>212134451
lack*

>>212134451
>it just doesn't look like an explosion that would that amount of light.
This is upshot Grable, from the same series as upshot Annie >>212132811
and SMALLER than the trinity test.
But more importantly it's tested at night, see how bright it is and literally turns the world to daylight.
https://youtu.be/dflLFFZcZ0w?si=wzVSUbr3ySO3xuJ-&t=8
You're right that shockwave is completely missing and light from the explosion non-existent.

>>212129670 (OP)

KWAB!

>>212129670 (OP)
Don't have the webm, but the explosion in one of the TFATF movies that chases Vin Diesel down a dam.

>>212134714
They have the light on the actors and they look LIKE they're looking at an otherworldly event, but then they show what they're looking at and it doesn't seem to add up. Big disconnect.

Nukes are neat

Just a lil baby 1.25 kiloton warhead, but they put it on a simple unguided rocket for shooting at Soviet bomber formations.

A number of movies ended with climactic explosions. Bridge over the river kwai , Apocalypse Now, JAWS and Star Wars to name a few.

https://youtu.be/tRHVMi3LxZE

>>212134423
Fun Fact!: and would have been 2 min. longer had 9/11 not happened showing a whole shitload of cities around the world blown to rat shit.