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Explosives Engineer and SFX Expert Review Explosions from ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Breaking Bad’

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Explosives Engineer and Professor Paul Worsey, and Special Effects Supervisor Tassilo Baur, fact check explosion scenes in ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Desperado,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Batman Returns’ and ‘Rush Hour’ and analyze each film from both an engineering and a filmmaking perspective.

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Explosives Engineer and SFX Expert Review Explosions from ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Breaking Bad’

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33 Comments

  1. Leafleap

    February 20, 2020 at 12:57 am

    I wish they would have taken a look at the tripwire minefield scene in “Behind enemy lines”, it’s spectacular albeit quite unrealistic.

  2. Claudine Art

    February 20, 2020 at 1:24 am

    It’s so interesting to hear two different experts’ explanations. Movies are movies, battlefields are battlefields, so I think their explanations are equally great.

  3. Financial Shinanigan

    February 20, 2020 at 1:33 am

    What a kickass job title! So what do you do?
    I’m a Professor of Explosives Engineering lol

    • octopu5ie

      February 20, 2020 at 11:21 am

      I know! I saw on Wikipedia that Dr Worsey received a “President’s award from the International Society of Explosives Engineers” and did a double-take…

    • Cauthon1041

      February 20, 2020 at 3:40 pm

      The worlds first and for a time ONLY accredited explosives engineering program. Good times.

  4. Jack Vande Polder

    February 20, 2020 at 2:32 am

    Hey, I go to the college that guy teaches at

    • Ryan Losensky

      February 20, 2020 at 4:17 am

      Hey me too

    • inFAMOUS63080 _

      February 20, 2020 at 7:01 am

      @Ryan Losensky Hey me 3

    • Nathan Kostelecky

      February 20, 2020 at 6:54 pm

      Take Min307. It’s a… blast.

  5. saphriaeragon

    February 20, 2020 at 3:33 am

    Dr. Worsey was one of my professors. He is a great guy.

  6. Manospondylus Gigas

    February 20, 2020 at 3:38 am

    Michelle Pfeiffer will always be my favorite and sexiest Catwoman. 🥰

  7. Ant beejacka

    February 20, 2020 at 3:43 am

    Can you do terrorist reviews terrorist scenes in movies and shows

  8. Benito Jr

    February 20, 2020 at 4:00 am

    11:40 you hear “Howard dean” yeah… In back ground very faint

  9. Brian Sandhaus

    February 20, 2020 at 4:21 am

    Way to go Paul!! Makes me miss classes with you! This makes me want to get back out to the mine and blow something up now. 😆

    • Cauthon1041

      February 20, 2020 at 3:40 pm

      2 component? Water spouts? Ether walls? I’m in 😀

    • Brian Sandhaus

      February 20, 2020 at 4:00 pm

      @Cauthon1041 yes, yes, yes, and more!

  10. dfgsynznzj321

    February 20, 2020 at 4:37 am

    I wish they brought up the fact that in The Dark Knight, when Ledger is walking outside of the hospital and presses the button to explode the building and he keeps pressing it and its not working, that wasn’t apart of the scene and he kept in character and made it absolutely perfect because as they said this was a real demolition and they only had one take to get it perfect. Also the over head shots of the building I believe wen’t real, they made a doll like size replica of the building and filmed that to get the huge clouds of fire/debris, don’t count me on it but I remember seeing or hearing that at one point.

    • RobertGoulet298

      February 20, 2020 at 1:25 pm

      dfgsynznzj321 neither of those things are true. Heath wasn’t improvising there. They rehearsed it many many times and I believe the part where the detonator “fails” was a clever way for them to have a pause before the real demolition so they could stop if they needed to for any reason before blowing the full building. And The Aerial shots are definitely real, just shot from a helicopter. If they blew up the building for real, why would they want to cut away from that to a miniature? All that smoke was from the SFX explosions.

    • Cauthon1041

      February 20, 2020 at 3:39 pm

      It’s an urban legend that the shot didn’t go off as planned.

  11. Josiah Ronin

    February 20, 2020 at 5:05 am

    5:52

  12. Ho Lee Fok

    February 20, 2020 at 6:02 am

    9:04 like how they make in 9/11 with the WTC

  13. Ho Lee Fok

    February 20, 2020 at 6:04 am

    No explotion scene on the Cyberdyne building in Terminator 2? Come on guys.

  14. Adam Ant

    February 20, 2020 at 6:38 am

    Wow!
    Can we get these two again?
    They’re fantastic.
    Great video!

  15. Aryan

    February 20, 2020 at 7:34 am

    7:44 what you came for

  16. Ace Hardy

    February 20, 2020 at 7:40 am

    📝

  17. some crazy fan

    February 20, 2020 at 11:42 am

    The hospital in the dark knight didn’t have windows they were added in later

  18. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER GAMING

    February 20, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    7:42 The Dark Knight ….you’re welcome.

  19. defenestrated23

    February 20, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Downvoters are wannabe thump junkies.

  20. Cauthon1041

    February 20, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    You can tell where they had to cut off Paul from rambling for times’ sake, haha!

  21. Steve Rivera

    February 20, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    a car sitting stationary and exploding and a car driving at a high rate of speed and exploding would react 2 different ways…

  22. India J. Vincent

    February 20, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    You had me at “Explosives Camp”. Sign me up! lol

  23. Nathan Kostelecky

    February 20, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Dr Worsey! I did explosives research for 3 years with him and took all the explosives classes available at MS&T. I have a playlist on my channel of some of the stuff we worked on together. We got to play with C-4, dynamite, etc etc. His lessons have impacted my every day life more than any other professor. A good dude! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGQTjtkEmEYwjXgZksyFfVnmvS7_LICQ6

  24. Greg Gallacci

    February 20, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    As they are discussing k-rails for safety, watch as the front suspension of the car separates from the chassis…I don’t think the film-makers intended that.

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