I thought this might be a fun ongoing thread. You get to see what others are watching and may find a new movie for your collection. New, old, color, B&W, foreign, concert or whatever...its all good.
I'll start with an excellent animated flick with rich detail and a good soundtrack: Tim Burton's Nine
The Thin Red Line (blu ray). Moving and thoughtful with plenty of action (after 40 minutes or so) and wonderful cinematography, superb video quality, audio quality and acting. Great film.
We watched "Saving Private Ryan". This is an excellent movie to help showcase your speakers. With the bullets flying around and all the D-Day activities on the beach. Just an amazing movie! Highly recommended.
Fugitive 20th year anniversary. Picture was great. Sound was very disappointing. Would have thought the bus and train crashes would have had some great bass in DTS-Ma, but next to nothing. Big disappointment. Still worth the $13 though IMHO
Last Night we watched The Whoopie Boys and Star Trek: Into Darkness. The Whoopie Boys is an all time comedy favorite of mine. Star Trek was a blind buy for me and after a couple of issues with the disk on my LG bluray players, the story is only so-so but the audio and video is fantastic.
We watched Hot Fuzz at the recommendation of a friend. It's a little slow at times, but overall a pretty decent movie with some definite lol moments. There is some notable bass in the soundtrack too.
Yeah no kidding. I watched it last night as well and thoroughly enjoyed it. And the audio was quite a spectacle - even if the movie had been mediocre it would have been worth it. I will probably have to watch this again.
Great isn't that exactly what we need - more loudness wars. That's a shame. And apparently I need different subs. I thought there were a couple of pretty deep bass moments but I know my subs' response drops off like a rock below about 28 Hz. I need another octave or so of extension.
yeah, the amount of 30hz + LFE is incredible and forceful. it just loses some low end extension which is dissapointing for all of those with low tuned LLT's and sealed sub setups (I'm still using a horn based sub with a cutoff of about 24 hz but that's about to change this month )
Oblivion. Wasn't all that impressed with it and I couldn't watch it that loud as my daughter is just starting the recovery from a sports concussion injury.
Oblivion. Wasn't all that impressed with it and I couldn't watch it that loud as my daughter is just starting the recovery from a sports concussion injury.
Since you brought up "the loudness war" comment, I was wondering just the opposite of what y'all are talking about. To me, it seems like so many movies now-a-days put more LFE in silly things, like scene changes or dramatic moments, that there are when LFE are called for (like things blowing up, or space ships coming in, etc..).
Anybody else know what I'm talking about?
There have been times the bass is almost a constant, so I end up turning off the amp for the infinite baffle sub. It's just too much needless bass.
Too keep some continuity with the thread, the wife and I watched and old school "blow stuff up" movie last night "Deep Impact".
The effects are certainly dated, but an entertaining movie regardless.
Since you brought up "the loudness war" comment, I was wondering just the opposite of what y'all are talking about. To me, it seems like so many movies now-a-days put more LFE in silly things, like scene changes or dramatic moments, that there are when LFE are called for (like things blowing up, or space ships coming in, etc..).
Anybody else know what I'm talking about?
Yep. Even things like people getting punched or handguns being fired are accompanied by an unrealistic amount of bass that takes away from my overall enjoyment of the scenes in many cases. Then like you said, something explodes and you think, "where was the rumble"?
I know what you mean. Example towards the beginning of WWZ the bass was out there when nothing was going on but Brad and his wife taking in the kitchen
Deep impact is one of my favorites and I can relate with the bloated bass. Since I've placed a Subdude under my sub the effect has been tamed and is much more tolerable now. Pretty good investment if the LFE is sometimes overwhelming.
Watched The lost medallion tonight with my two daughters. It's a limited release in theatres movie produced by Christians. It was actually not bad, the acting was decent and story (meant to be fictional) as its being told as a story to some orphans in a home who just need something to lift their spirits.
The movie is filmed in a tropical area and much of the visuals are quite stunning, loads of color and very rich.
lol I bought mine yesterday with Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. Loved the movie series and hated the fact that they made another version of it for people who cant read.:rolleyesno:
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