BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
There’s no denying it, every film is automatically improved with the inclusion of a top-quality, fire-in-your-face, boomtastic explosion; action flicks, sci-fi space operas and even Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan-starring RomComs are much better off with a fanatastic fireball or two.
What do you mean you can’t remember the excellent explosion at the end of Sleepless In Seattle!? Your loss.
Here at JOE HQ we’re so goddamn suave that we’re obviously the kind of effortlessly cool guy who would walk away from any crackin’-looking combustion, exactly like these guys…
In fact, some say that we can recognise a great cinematic explosion by the mere sound of it alone.
While others would say that we just made that fact up.
Either way, you can’t prove anything and the most important thing to know is that we are most certainly the masters of movie mass destruction. So much so, that we’ve compiled this list of five of JOE’s favourite fiery film explosions. Without further ado, let’s light ’em up…
The Dark Knight (2008)
What a film from Christopher Nolan. What a performance from Heath Ledger. And what an explosion from The Joker – the evil b*stard blows up Gotham General Hospital for God’s sake.
Incredibly, Ledger actually improvised the scene as the real explosion unexpectedly failed to work first time around, causing the Joker to react as the prop detonator “appeared” faulty.
Brilliant, blowy-up stuff…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB0kiU7JRrg
Spaceballs (1987)
We’re a big bunch of Star Wars-loving super geeks here at JOE HQ and we won’t hear a bad word said against the (original) series of films. For all of the love JOE has for Star Wars, however, we really didn’t mind Mel Brooks’ perfect parody of Geroge Lucas’ genre-defining masterpiece, mainly because it was really, really funny.
For all of their joking around though, they sure knew how to execute a serious explosion, and one that gets bonus points for its class countdown…
The Rock (1996)
Michael ‘needs more explosions’ Bay was an absolute given when it came to compiling some of JOE’s favourite film fireballs – sure wasn’t the man born in an explosion; all while the stars and stripes of the American flag billowed in slow-motion, as a lone bugle player performed solemnly in the background.
The Rock is one of JOE’s favourite Saturday afternoon films… that we also like to watch on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays too and, with a triumphant Nic Cage plus THAT iconic soundtrack, you’ve got yourself some Absolute Bayhem…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdukhSNrW8
Independence Day (1996)
There is no way you can put together a list of top explosions and not include the wonderful walloping that the White House unfortunately gets, courtesy of some very special guests from out of town.
Aliens. The “very special guests from out of town” that we’re talking about are aliens.
You want to see the excellent Empire State Building go bang bang too? Oh go on then…
Apocalypse Now (1979)
“Smell that? You smell that? Napalm son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Cut to 1.10 for the moment of magic but trust us, every single second of this film is a sight to behold…
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