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| The best movies for home theater surround sound I am looking for the best movies for surround sound and visual effects. After reaching 100 I will take a vote for the top 10 to 20. What are some of your favorite movies for surround sound and visual effects? For those of you reading this for the first time these are the suggested titles. I will add when new titles are suggested. 1. The Incredibles 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Gladiator 4. Transformers 5. Band of Brothers 6. The Grudge movies (scary) 7. Flyboys "Dogfights scene" 8. Heat 9. Titan AE 10. War of the Worlds 11. Star Wars 4,5,6 12. Moulan Rouge 13. Apollo 13 14. Transformers 15. Twister 16. Titan AE 17. We Were Soldiers 18. U-571 19. Superman: The Movie 20. Master and Commander 21. Saving Private Ryan 22. remastered version of Top Gun 23. Four Brothers 24. Forest Gump, jungle war scene 25. Master and Commander Star Wars Episode I "Pod Race" 26. Open Range 27. Matrix 28. Spiderman 3 29. Silent Hill (scary) 30. Ratatouille "old lady with shotgun" 31. Gladiator 32. Matrix trilogy 33. Monsters Inc. 34. Lord of the Rings trilogy 35. Pearl Harbor 36. Titanic 37. The Rock 38. Independence Day 39. Outbreak 40. Deep Blue Sea 41. V for Vendetta 42. 300 43. Gladiator 44. Casino Royale 45. Terminator 2 46. Fellowship of the Rings 47. House of Flying Daggers 48. Fifth Element 49. Apocalypto 50. Event Horizon 51. Live Free Die Hard 52. X-Men 3 53. Day after Tomorrow 54. Ice Age Last edited by Scuba Diver; 02-13-08 at 12:58 PM.. Reason: Updated list | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound For me it would be the pod race in Star Wars Episode I. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound That's not easy to find the best movies for surround sound because there are so many !!! Here are some of those I use to test my surround system: - The Incredibles - Master and Commander, - Star Wars Pod Race - Saving Private Ryan - Open Range - Gladiator - Matrix Klipsch (THX2) | Crown | SVS | SlimDevices | Sony | Pioneer | Yamaha | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound For new movies Transformers and Spiderman 3 are both awesome. For older action movies Matrix and Star Wars 4-6 are hard to beat, and my favorite type of surround, horror movies, Silent Hill and the Grudge movies have a more subtle,creepy type of surround. ![]() | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I forgot about a couple of those. Keep them coming. I like all kinds of action and scary movies so if you have a title of a movie with great bass or sound effects that make your skin crawl then by all means post it. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound Check out Ratatouille ![]() The old lady with the shotgun ![]() | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound There is a very good old movie that I've used for many years for testing changes made to the audio side.. It has excellent surround sound and covers just about every square metre of the room.. It's one of the few movies that projects sound right up to your face..Infact you can almost believe that you're going to drown!! Good thunder and lightning and roaring sounds with some pretty dramatic explosions thrown in as well.. The movie is Deep Blue Sea...but don't watch it if "Jaws" turned your stomach!! | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound Too many to list! Gladiator Heat Matrix trilogy Titan AE Anything Pixar War of the Worlds Lord of the Rings trilogy Star Wars 4,5,6 Pearl Harbor Moulan Rouge Titanic Apollo 13 The Rock Transformers Independence Day Twister Outbreak would be among my favorites... | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound In terms of bringing it all together - constant surround activity, plenty of low and powerful bass, and excellent picture quality - Titan AE and The Incredibles are still head and shoulders above the rest in my book. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound add: We Were Soldiers V for Vendetta | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound "Superman: The Movie". A very lively surround track and the opening credits are among the best of all time. I saw it in 70mm at the Loews Astor Plaza and the audience applauded the credits zooming from the front speakers to the back. The story goes that they had a different credits sequence until they hired a company to do the trailer with the zooming titles which were so effective, they had them redo the title sequence in the same technique. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I can't believe it ... ![]() Nobody mentioned U-571 ... deep charge explosions ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I've always like Gladiator and Master and Commander for cherry picking certain scenes. My newest fav is the new James Bond movie Casino Royale on Blu-ray using its uncompressed PCM 5.1 track, the opening scene is really alive with detail. The subtleties when he's sitting in the office ready to make kill #2, then raging gunfire that turns into the theme music. It's really a treat to behold. Wayde | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound The Depth Charges scene is probably the most explosions per second you'll get in any movie. The second scene (Omaha Beach) in Saving Private Ryan is still one of the best to date, although not for the weak of stomach. The Matrix also has some good show off scenes and the techno trance music plays though nice. The scene where Neo fights Morpheus in the Dojo, where Morpheus explains the Matrix and the Lobby shootout up to the Helicopter crash is great. Terminator 2 has some nice explosions with deep bass when Arnie is firing the mini gun then launching grenades at the squad cars from the Cyberdyne building. The remastered Top Gun "Special Collector's Edition" or the HDDVD has some impressive soundtrack and sound effects. The tomcat flybys are pretty neat and the movies intro is a nice demo to impress your friends. LOTR the Fellowship of the Rings The Bridge of Kazha Doom scene is one of my stand bys. There is plenty of low bass, great surround and visuals. There are many others like that in all three of the Trilogy, but that one stands out to me. I could go on and on. There are hundreds of good titles out there. ![]() | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I haven't even seen the whole movie, but the gunfight scene in the house in "Four Brothers" in a demo disc of mine shakes my house--talk about an intense demo. It will make your friends excuse themselves to change their pants.:raped: | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I agree. I actually have not seen that movie, but was at a B&M store demoing some stuff and that was the scene they used. Awesome stuff! | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound I can't believe The Fifth Element hasn't been mentioned. Back in DVD days the Superbit was great and now the remastered BD is a great option. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound Ya, Wow! The clipping lights on my EP2500 came on during the shotgun scene. That's never happened before, lol! Definitely a must add to this list. | ||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound Quote:
The difference being that Jaws was a great movie and was scary. | |||||
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| Re: The best movies for home theater surround sound White noise was pretty scary sound wise, but sucked otherwise. There are a lot and I can't remember all of them, but 300 rocks some pretty good sound. I only have an IMAX theater to compare to, but it makes my system work pretty hard, especially with the epic soundtrack. Sweet movie. If I hit the powerball, Im gonna build an IMAX theater and watch 300 everyday after work. | ||||
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