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Although I'm a film buff at heart and will, for most viewing moods, place cinematic content over a movie's sonic qualities, it is fun to check out discs with great sound. A lot of the great sounding discs tend to be 'popcorn' movies (action flicks, sci-fi, and the like) which I enjoy watching when in the mood for sweet-n-simple entertaiment. Listings/ratings of these candidates would be fine, although it would be interesting to hear some insights on 'non-popcorn' films that make the grade sonically as well.AA inmates...please feel free to pipe in with your own lists as well!
Bryan K.,
Music Lover & President-elect of C.C.A.C. (Concerned Citizens Against Cilantro)
Follow Ups:
check avsforum.com, where people who somehow manage to watch, catalogue and rank by PQ and audio (yet find time to work a job that affords) their 5,000 dvd collections somehow love DVDs more for the technology than the art.Guilty! :-)
But more seriously, I am having a hard time trying to give a recommendation. Being an audiophile, it is one thing to compare a cello recording against what you hear at Carnegie Hall, but "good sound" in movies often means hearing explosions in oxygen-free outer space and other made-up sounds. But that's exactly the kind of film you want to get away from with this question.
Maybe you mean something like a movie with an ensemble cast that has good separation of the actors speaking? Or is a good example of how to restore a mono soundtrack right? Cuz that's the only kind of film with good sound that Victor would call a good film. :O)
I can recommend one popcorn movie that I did enjoy which happened to have crazy good sound -- The Butterfly Effect. People on avsforum were warning others not to set their subwoofer too high with this disc because it would explode. Yeah, I know it's Ashton, but it's more thoughtful, smarter, adult and scarier than I expected, like reading a fun Ray Bradbury pulp. Otherwise rent the new Goodfellas and you'll hear some great music thrown in. THX 1138 is well done but I recall people pointing out that it's not done in Lucas's THX, and it's a pretty quiet soundtrack (originally mono). Minority Report or AI or Saving Private Ryan are good sounding too, except everyone on this board thinks Spielberg isn't worthy. That's all I can think of at this hour.
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Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it's almost impossible to come up with anything totally original. So we haven't. However, this disc was made with the accent on heavy music.
Thanks for the input. I will check out the avsforum...surprised I hadn't thought about that already.I did see The Butterfly Effect and was pleasantly surprised by the film and quite enjoyed it (although I did prefer it's kindred spirit 'Donnie Darko'). I watched it prior to having a full surround sound setup and should perhaps check it out again. I was already aware of the Saving Private Ryan soundtrack and probably should revisit that one as well. It's interesting that you mention THX 1138 as that did have one VERY interesting special audio feature. It is possible to view the movie with only the "Theatre of Noise" sound effects track. I flicked this on just for kicks and was amazed at how compelling (and perhaps more interesting) the film was when viewed in this context. This audio track is rather full and provides for a nearly continuous sound-bed. It was still very easy to follow the theme of the film and setting aside the somewhat stilted dialogue allowed the viewer to more openly interpret the film. At the very least, it highlighted Lucas' skill with visual narrative and his shortcomings with regards to dialogue and character development.
It would also be interesting to determine some of the better restorations of old mono soundtracks as well (perhaps Criterion should be commended?) but will continue my search on that note.
Bryan K.,
Music Lover & President-elect of C.C.A.C. (Concerned Citizens Against Cilantro)
The audio on the two disc DVD of "Casablanca"is outstanding.
Unfortunately not even letterboxed, "The Bridges of Madison County" DVD has an outstanding (and quiet) DolbyDigital 5.1 sound mix.
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