Geez Louise, I don’t think it’s my imagination, but these days I’ve noticed that during any random action-type TV show, whenever anyone turns on the car ignition or opens a door, there’s a pretty good chance there will be a gigantibus explosion. And it’s not just cars… it can be any vehicle-- airplane, school bus, small boat. I mean, c’mon. It’s getting old. It’s a cheap thrill and I say, let’s cut it out.
Carry on.
'plosions are what made hollywood what it is today. Hippie.
…of course, I think movies suck today.
I haven’t seen too many bicycle explosions at the flicks, so there’s that.
These gentlemen would be inclined to agree.
Like most things wrong with movies these days, blame CGI. Explosions are easy (read cheap) to do with computers now, certainly much cheaper than real ones, so they make ample use of them.
Don’t give them ideas.
Horse drawn carriages, on the other hand…
Most of those cars didn’t even have good insurance.
However, they have a good description of the bombers - green, lizard looking creature with an Australian accent who sneaks under the car and plants the bomb while his partner, a rather perky woman who goes by the name of “Flo”, distracts onlookers.
Blame the studios, blame the Director, blame the audience. Don’t blame CGI.
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Yeah, the explosions were annoying until we realized it was just personnel at the air force base testing how Albuquerque would react to terrorists, which was generally by running out of the house and looking for one…
Oh, never mind.
Actually, I was thinking more of TV shows, as I watch almost no action movies. It happened on NCIS last night: one explosion when a guy opened a door, and another one when a small plane blew up in mid-air. Happened in The Mentalist- guy turns on the car…boom. There have been so many on TV recently, I can’t remember them all.
Imagine “Elliott and ET on their iconic bike ride. Just as they reach the apex… blammo!!!” Entire movies have been built around worse scenes. 
To be fair, that’s a common problem with Pintos.
As someone trained to make things go boom, I can tell you that Hollywood has made people unimpressed with the real thing. Giant fireballs don’t normally happen unless there is gasoline present. A few pounds of C4 doesn’t look too exciting when it blows. A hand grenade is boring to look at. No fireballs.
I find a visible shockwave much cooler than a fireball, personally, but Hollywood doesn’t go for such relative subtlety in explosions.