Pajiba

I don't mind when things blow up. I do mind when things that wouldn't actually blow up blow up. Like when there are car crashes and half the cars blow up. Rarely actually happens, except in the movies.

I also mind when we see someone putting a single, relatively small explosive in a large building, then we see the entire building blow up, with multiple explosions. Again, I find this unlikely.

I'm no demo expert, but a lot of the explosions in movies seem so fake and unlikely, it distracts me. Instead of watching the movie, I'm thinking, "Oh, for fuck's sake, just because a car goes off the road doesn't mean it's going to explode in a giant fireball." Also, when half the running time in a movie is explosions, they pretty much lose their impact. It's like boldfacing every other word in a book.

The only people I see questioning this shit are the Mythbusters dudes.

Explosions=action now?

See I think Johnie To is probably the best action director going right now. I mean sure he lacks in explosions, but where he lacks in explosions he makes up for it with fighting scenes, chase scenes, shooting scenes....

you know...

ACTION.

Hell Shoot Em Up and Versus were both rather mindless and way more action packed then anything Michael Bay is associated with.

What about Christopher Nolan. I seem to remember lots of splosions in the two batman movies.

I can't help it, The Rock just holds a special place in my heart...

Raiders of the Lost Ark has some of the greatest explosions in moviedom. They aren't there simply for eye candy, but are visceral and plot changing events that push the story along. When the truck dentonates as Indy is walking toward it to get Marion (he thinks) out the audience is just as shocked as Indy. And that glorious long shot of the flying wing exploding as most of the airfield goes up? There are few comparisons.

But there really aren't that many explosions in the other movies. The plane crashes into a mountain and explodes but it's in the background as Indy and company land on the mountain in their boat. That's it for Temple of Doom. And in Crusade, I think a couple of planes (and maybe the tank?) explode but that's it. So I really think you are stretching by including Spielberg here. He showed remarkable restraint. Bay would have blown up the bar, the Well of Souls, the Zeppelin, the Kali temple, the palace, etc.

Other than the nuke explosion I don't remember any other explosions in Crystal Skull. I guess when Indy shoots the tree clearing machine with a rocket launcher. I think about that movie as little as possible though so I may be wrong.