![]() Chief Brody’s “Smile, you son of a bitch!” followed with the rifle shot that explodes the compressed air tank in the shark’s mouth may be short on actual flames, but it’s long on cathartic satisfaction. ![]() If I get to pick a third, then I’ll go with ‘ Jaws‘. Not just that it had been done before, but think of all those poor innocent contractors working on the construction of the new station. I’m not as big a fan of the second death star explosion in ‘Return of the Jedi’. But alas, the Mangalores have an override on the trigger which resumes the countdown, leading to the destruction of the entire hotel in a fiery explosion that almost – but not quite! – engulfs our escaping heroes.Īlso, the Death Star being destroyed in ‘ Star Wars‘ is pretty satisfying, before and after the revisionist enhanced visual effects were added. However, he discovers that the stone case is empty, returns to the space-borne hotel to recover them and stops the bomb with just a few seconds to spare. Zorg plants a bomb on the Flotsam Paradise, expecting it to explode after he escapes with the stones. My favorite explosion occurs in ‘ The Fifth Element‘. I’d hammer out a paragraph explaining why ‘ Tropic Thunder‘ boasts one of my all-time favorite cinematic explosions, but I’m too busy cackling like an idiot and replaying this clip over and over and over: That scene made for some good summer fun. Forgetting all the stuff I just mentioned, and the oddity of a cat in a downtown Los Angeles parking garage – and Homicide showing up at a bomb scene – the bickering, mixed with the series’ signature musical rips, culminates with what I at the time thought was the biggest explosion I had ever seen in a movie. ![]() But the first thing that comes to my mind is the opening of ‘ Lethal Weapon 3‘. And I know one of the stars is none too popular these days. I know the movie wasn’t the best in the series. Phil Lord and Chris Miller edited it for perfect comic impact. I’ve gotta go with the car chase explosion in ‘ 21 Jump Street‘. Sadly, the rest of ‘Lethal Weapon 3’ didn’t quite live up to that great opening, but what a way to begin a film. The producer of the movie, Joel Silver, paid the city $165,000 for the privilege of blowing it up. In reality, the building was the old Orlando City Hall in Florida, which was scheduled for demolition anyway. Yes, I’m old-school when it comes to movie stunts, which is why my choice is the building explosion at the beginning of ‘ Lethal Weapon 3‘. I’m not sure what my fellow Bonus View contributors will pick in this week’s Roundtable, but hopefully it won’t be anything either created or enhanced with CGI. ![]() What are some of your favorite explosions featured in movies? In honor of the Fourth of July, our topic this week is all about things that go boom. We’ll leave you today with an early Roundtable. Since tomorrow is a holiday in the United States, the blog will be closed for a long weekend. ![]()
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