Best Movies/Scenes to show off ?

[Adrian Wallace]

OK -SO we've al spent $1000's on awesome gear and love our home theatre...
but when someone comes round and says "ok - looks great - but show me
something that sounds good?" - What do you play?

Whats the best clip for showing off your humoungous subwoofer?
Jurassic Park - TRex approach?
Finding Nemo - The tap on the aquarium glass?

What shows off the wonders of your direction effects best?
Saving Private Ryan - Omaha landings with overhead bullets?
DareDevil (DTS) - wakes in hospital with newly acquired 'super-hearing' ?
Pearl Harbour - Japanese planes flying overhead?

What do you think - which scenes really get the most from your equipment?

[El Bastardo]

G'day,

Adrian Wallace wrote:
> Whats the best clip for showing off your humoungous subwoofer?

U-571 - depth charges
Master and Commander - Chapter 4

> What shows off the wonders of your direction effects best?

Gladiator - opening battle
Master & Commander - wind and storm noises, creaky ship effects

-- Geoff

[Steve Batt]

"El Bastardo" <ewww@dogwater.org> wrote in message
news:C7n3e.20737$C7.543@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> G'day,
>
> Adrian Wallace wrote:
>> Whats the best clip for showing off your humoungous subwoofer?
>
> U-571 - depth charges
> Master and Commander - Chapter 4
*** agreed
>
>> What shows off the wonders of your direction effects best?
>
> Gladiator - opening battle
> Master & Commander - wind and storm noises, creaky ship effects

*** sounds amasing, kept looking over my shoulder


> -- Geoff
>

[Simon Howson]

Adrian Wallace wrote:
> OK -SO we've al spent $1000's on awesome gear and love our home theatre...
> but when someone comes round and says "ok - looks great - but show me
> something that sounds good?" - What do you play?

I think the sound mix on Citizen Kane is excellent.

Simon Howson

[Andrew Reilly]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:25:01 +1000, Samual wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:07:23 GMT, "Adrian Wallace"
> <adrianwallace_gap@REMOVETHISBIThotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>OK -SO we've al spent $1000's on awesome gear and love our home theatre...
>>but when someone comes round and says "ok - looks great - but show me
>>something that sounds good?" - What do you play?
>>
>>Whats the best clip for showing off your humoungous subwoofer?
>>Jurassic Park - TRex approach?
>>Finding Nemo - The tap on the aquarium glass?
>>
>>What shows off the wonders of your direction effects best?
>>Saving Private Ryan - Omaha landings with overhead bullets?
>>DareDevil (DTS) - wakes in hospital with newly acquired 'super-hearing' ?
>>Pearl Harbour - Japanese planes flying overhead?
>>
>>What do you think - which scenes really get the most from your equipment?
>
> The scene in The Matrix inside the building where they shoot it up and
> do they run upside down stuff.

The Matrix foyer scene is a pretty standard show-off piece, as is Saving
Private Ryan.

There's a lot of great stuff in The Fifth Element, particularly the taxi
ride. The opening credits of Spider Man are pretty heavily surround-mixed.

More recently, I was really impressed with the rain in the chess-shop
scene in Hero. That's also a very pretty movie for showing off your
screen.

--
Andrew

[thornton melon]

The posts have covered most of my favorites,here's some more.

opening killing scenes in THE PROFESSIONAL ,and more inside (fantastic
movie)
Weapon demo in FIFTH ELEMENT
Boomerang killing scene in BLADE
Shootups in DESPERADO
Swordplay in CROUCHING TIGER
Hospital shootout in TERMINATOR 2
Most scenes in DIE HARD (DTS)


--
thornton melon