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I always like spectacular, for either negative or positive events that warrant the description.

My mom once wouldn't talk to me for a week because we saw a plane crash at an airshow on TV where the plane went nose first into the ground right on camera, and I sai "Wow, that was spectacular" meaning that it was a remarkable event and shockingly dramatic. She thought I was being offensive, but I refused to apologize for using the term. Eventually I got her to look it up in the dictionary and she calmed down a bit.