And what do you think of blowing up the bridge in the Good, Bad and Ugly?
How about "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Guns of Navarone"? Those are two pretty impressive explosions as well.
This sequence was included in full on the origional British release prints, so for me to see the film now, without this psychedelic destruction, always felt odd. Coppola would rather we see it without, I always want to see it intact.It was one of the few movies I ever saw at the cinema where most of the audience would sit and watch the explosive credits*, with its Greatful Dead percussion section music. Great stuff.
The music in that scene is great, but look again your dvd and continue hearing the melody 3 or 4 more minutes, when Sean and Juan arrive at the caves and Juan finds all his sons dead.... That Morricone track is called "Dead sons". I have now more than 150 Morricone cds, and from all those cds "Dead Sons" is my favourite Morricone track.
DYS bridge and train explosions are absolutely perfect. And, , the final explosion too. Perhaps he did it with the "holy water", not? Very big boom.