Need a Movie Recommendation

[x97lyons]

So I now have my KG based surround sound running and I just love it. When I got the subwoofer I followed everyones recommendations and went out and rented U571 and it was amazing. I actually blew out my surround, they were about 15 years old, but I have replaced that now. I am ready for some more recommendations. I am looking for something that will both give the surround sound a workout along with the subwoofer. I have Enemy at the Gate on its way now with Netflix but would love to fill up my Queue with great sounding movies. I have not made the jump to blu-ray yet!! In Feb my wife was convinced our old 27"TV was good enough and I finally convinced her to just let me look at TV's. Seven months later I had a new TV and added surround receiver, 3 more speakers and a subwoofer. The Blu-ray should be added by Christmas.

[Amy]

My favorite continues to be Saving Private Ryan.

The engineers like to demo Transformers.

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Hallo. If you are looking for movies with a good sound?

The Incredibles (oscar for sound!)

Star Wars, Attack of the clones.

Pearl Habour.

Terminator 3.

Dark Night (Batman).

King Kong.

Wim

[dgoreck]

AVS Threads:

Movies for Picture Quality

Movies with BASS

Movies for Audio Quality

Just watched 'Kung Fu Panda' on Blu-Ray this weekend, and the sound and PQ was awesome. Good amount of bass, and surrounds.

Transfomers and Dark Knight(Batman) have lots of bass as well. Definately give your sub a workout, as well and Cloverfield, and 'Master & Commander'

I've had my mom over to watch some Blu-Ray's and well she can't believe how the movies look....said the 52" tv could be larger ...after being told I was nutz getting a tv that size for sitting 6' away.

[x97lyons]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have to admit right now I am having allot of fun with the subwoofer. I probably need to turn it down a bit more but I am loving the rummble.

[twistedcrankcammer]

x97lyons,

Open Range, love the many close up gun shots and shotgun blasts.

Roger

[Islander]

House of Flying Daggers has lots of good surround effects, plus sounds of arrows and spears flying right by your head. The lovely Zhang Ziyi looks as cute as always, too.

[Colin]

Movies that show off your home theater must have incredible
pictures and sound tracks. Therefore, modern musicals are the first to
come to mind:

1 - My first nominee: Chicago. Bob Fosse’s Broadway titillating hit
about love, betrayal and exploitation (theirs and ours) is brought to 2002
celluloid with surprisingly good song and dance performances by Catherine
Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, John C. Reilly, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere.
Stylish set with interesting plot and delightful sound keep this moving and
entertaining. Bound to be an enduring classic. His All That Jazz is wonderful also.

2 - Then Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGrehor in Moulin Rouge. A cacophony of sound and sight.

3 - John Cameron built a special limitless horizon studio
and combined Robert Ballard’s actual deep sea submersible footage for Titanic. Then it won the Academy Award
for sound in 1997.

4 – Jamie Foxx in Ray
(Charles, 2004). Great acting. Great music.

5 - Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:
A Space Oddessy. Now we all know Antonio Lucio Vivaldi.

6 – And of course, George Lucas’ Star Wars. “John Williams' scores for the double trilogy count
among the most widely-known and popular contributions to modern film music.”

7 – Then of course, movies with some of the deepest, baddest
bass: depth charges dropped on the otherwise horrible Matthew McConaughey and
the always great Harvey Keitel in U-571.

8 - Steven Speilberg’s Saving
Private Ryan, puts you in each scene as the first major motion picture
using hand held video with bullets whipping from front to side.

9 – The use of spot color in Speilberg’s powerful Schindler’s List, with Liam Neesom.

10 – I personally like Master
and Commander: The Far Side of the World and

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, both of which were nominated in 2003. And
Russell Crowe again, in Gladiator. Yet,
I end this list with the amazingly 5-Hz footsteps and close-up dinosaur breath
of Jurassic Park.

Does Spielberg know how to combine tales of peril with music
or what? These are all awesome movies, worth of watching again and again. The
music makes them classics. The screens are alive with the sound of music!

6/17/2009

[Bill H.]

Any of the National Geographic Series on the National Parks ! Beautiful Scenery and great background Music..............

For sound effects a cute one is Nemo or CARS...................

[Rivernuggets]

A truly great movie you must see and hear is Serenity. Came out in 2005. Right away in the beginning after the 'Universal' letters encircle the earth, your sub will rumble. It's a great Sci-Fi movie with.....a plot! This movie came from a tv series on Fox called Firefly around 2001.

[seti]

Fifth Element

[Chris A]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Sound_Mixing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Sound_Editing

Some good ones here...

[DU73]

IRONMAN

[Mr. RF62]

G.I. Joe

[Groomlakearea51]

If you have not seen it, "Das Boot" is a really good (and very accurate) rendition of subs getting clobbered by depth charges...... I recommend the director's cut with the original German soundtrack.

[neo33]

Star Trek.

[DizRotus]

You've already been provided with a list of the usual suspects for road testing a new HT.

As to excellent films you might have overlooked, I recommend the following:

1. David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner, starring Steve Martin (not a comedy), Campbell Scott, Ben Gazarra, Ricky Jay, Rebecca Pidgeon and Ed O'Neill. and
2. The World's Fastet Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins.

I've never known of anyone who didn't enjoy them. They must be out there, but they're too busy watching "stuff get blowed up real good" to express an opinion.