The 11 Biggest Box-Office Bombs

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In the most iconic scene of the charmingly (and intentionally!)

So why isntOppenheimerhigher here?

Gadget fits 25,000 tons of TNT explosive force into a small package.

Given that Nolan supposedlydidnt use CGIforOppenheimers big explosion, theactualbombfromOppenheimerprobably also deserves a spot on this ranking.

And Nolan loves a big blast.

The fire rises indeed.

But inArmageddon, a group of oil drillers (?)

train to become astronauts (?)

3.The Day the Earth Caught Fire(1961)

ArmageddonandThe Cores big bombs are outliers.

To … blow up a good chunk of Earths entire nuclear arsenal in Siberia to set the planetbackon course.

And, well, theres a reason all theApesmovies after this were time-traveling prequels.

So unfortunately forOppenheimer, the atomic bomb is far,farfrom the biggest bomb Cillian Murphy has created.