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i really do enjoy the ht experience. and i'm very impressed with the hollywood movies. the action, the special effects, the sound.what are the best movies for the a/v experience? i have the matrix, and i enjoyed the fast and the furious.
right now, i like collateral damage: tons of action and explosions. i particularly like the scene where arnold falls into the fast-moving river, and tumbles down the waterfall. just an incredible bit of action filmmaking.
what other movies, if any, have this type of pure cinematic action experience and wonder?
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I thought the audio in LOTR was absolutely fantastic. Lots of surround effects that were seemless from front to back and back to front. May not be as "action packed" as the other suggestions, but the action scenes it does have sound great.
The sound editors did a fantastic job creating a 360 degree "soundscape" for LOTR. A real workout for the LF channel.However, the surround sound isn't just boom and bang for action scenes - the myriad effects are well integrated with the musical score, ambient sounds and creative sound designs, such as the effects for the One Ring, which thunks, sighs, whispers, cajoles, humms etc. (My favorite effect is in the prologue, the subterranean, subsonic "whhooooosh!" when Sauron is struck down during the Last Alliance sequence . There are subtle and/or bold effects going on all the time in all channels. This soundtrack will give your surround system quite a work-out and it's not kind to wimpy or boomy one-note subs. Word of warning: LOTR/FOTR is recorded at +4db so you might even want to turn the volume *down* a bit - unless of course you want to annoy your neighbors.
The movie's great too.
yes, i have that one but i haven't had a chance to see it yet. i got it because my son raved about it.the weekend is almost here and i now have that and monsters ball. so perhaps i can get to them.
my stereo/audiophile stuff is my solo/weekday trip, and the home theater is the group/weekend stuff.
i have to say that the ht experience is at least as good as the enjoyment of the stereo, if not better.
can be found on the opening sequence of "Saving Private Ryan".IMHO, of course. ;-)
on a good system, the sound of the opening scene is so realistic,
it actualy made me ill.
For color & picture quality: Fantasia 2000, Fifth Element
Explosions & surround sound effects: U-571
Cinematography & music: Monster's Ball
thanks, i believe saving private ryan, and monster's ball dvds are currently available at the video store for 10 bucks used.of what i've seen so far, i would say the best scene i've ever seen is the first race in the fast and the furious, right from the beginning of a simulation of the gas going through the engine to the finish. i think it's a technically brilliant marvel.
i've seen some negative reviews of fast and the furious, but i think it's a great movie and if i ever taught a college course on cinema, i would use that film, if only for the way it creates it's own world.
and as i mentioned my favorite scene presently is arnold's plunge into the whitewater river in collateral damage. i love the way the sub rumbles when he goes under the water. and the scenery as he goes down the waterfall.
i was always a foreign film and avante garde film buff, but now i just marvel at what hollywood is doing.
I would agree that U-571 is great. It is like Run Silent, Run Deep but more gritty and real. Lots of cool "blowing up" as well. Das Boot also fits in here (newest verision, where the director got the actors to say all their lines in English). Here is my "fave" list, Gladiator, Titan A.E., Atlantis:the Lost Continent, The Mummy, Galaxy Quest and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. Let us know what you think.
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