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This might have been asked before, but I couldn't find it in a search...

What movies do you recommend to demonstrate surround sound? Any of the Matrix or Lord of the Rings movies are great. I just watched I Robot and it was so-so sound-wise. What do you pull out when you want to show off your system?

-Brian

Great sound effects in War of the Worlds.

The Incredibles; Master and Commander; Batman Begins; Spider-man; The Phantom of the Opera.

I am also looking forward to next weeks release of Chronicles of Narnia which will have both Dolby Digital and dts.

Try the remake of "Flight of the Phoenix". Spectacular crash sequence fairly early in the movie, with great deep bass effects. Also "House of Flying Daggers" and a relative oldie, "The Bourne Identity."

Regards,

I've always liked showing Star Wars Ep 123, LOTR Trilogy are always good. There's a great part in the Return of the King when the Oliphants start to charge and the Riders of Rohan charge right into them. Thats probably the best I know of acctually. They also have great musical sequences as well. I Bet King Kong will be great too. I'll find out about that later in the week.

I see these kind of threads all the time on other forums too. One movie I never see anyone mention is The Hulk. IMHO, not only were the special effects above par but the soundtrack had some great moments, oh and Jennifer Connelly

Movies I like to demo for surround as well as low end are:
The Hulk (tank scene)
U-571 (depth charges)
Finding Nemo (mines, ship sliding and Darla tap scenes)
The Matrix (lobby scene)
The Mummy Returns (surprisingly good soundtrack for most of the movie)
Ice Age (scat and the glaciers)
WoTW (street breaking and the death rays or whatever they're called)

Pearl Harbor (the whole movie shows off effects and dialog well) to me this is one of the best effects/soundtrack movies out there. It covers all the bases as well as being a great movie to watch! As much as I hate Ben Affleck (not as much as I hate Tom Cruise, lol), his acting is probably the best he's ever done in this movie and I actually enjoy him in it, never thought I'd say that

I really appreciate all the suggestions. I picked up Sound & Vision Magazine's HT tune-up DVD which was very helpful. Pretty simplistic in the beginning with the equipment advice but the tutorials on the calibrations was very good.

Anyway, this DVD includes several Dolby trailers and DVD-A samples. Very cool.

-Brian

Figured I might add my .02c's worth.

Desperado -- bar scene
Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon -- awesome fight scenes
Equilibrium -- awesome fight scenes towards the end

But hey, that's just me. I really enjoyed watching all three movies...though out of the three, I have watched desperado multiple times.

See ya.

Gladiator and Black Hawk Down are two that come to mind for me. For a subwoofer show War of the Worlds is pretty much the reference these days.

Have mentioned it before:

Open Range - Thunderstorm at beginning (great surrounds)
Saloon scene (great LFE)
Gun fight near end (some of everything)

Hey, it's a western...

Plus it's a good movie...great for both sides of the family (male and female).

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