best sound effects

tecmo04

ok, lets go on a little journy. its late in the evening, pitch black outside. you come home after a long hard day of work to find your self exausted. using previous knoledge from my poll earlier i have discovered that me most of you strive to be the biggest lazy bum that you can possibly be with out getting in trouble with anyone. knowing this you go to sit down in the sweet spot/ captons chair/ area in the room that has your **** impinted on it becuase you never leave it! the reciever is turned up to refernce level and theres a huge bowl of popcorn in your hands with a soda sitting right next to you comforting you with the gentle soothing sounds of carbonation.

now to the important part... which dvd should you pop in the player? you want things wizzing over year head, stuff sprinting from left to right and then, maybe back again?!?! you want the most mind blowing special effects/sound effects that your heart can take just before the point where it wants to stop beating becuase your so content with your system/tv/movie!

now some of you may be thinking, why is this kid rambiling sooo much. he could have asked this question in one sentence but 2 paragraphs? this kid must be on crack or something. well im sitting at work bored and i enjoy reading posts like this so i figure id try to write a few!

now as for my movie id think off the top of my head id have to say matrix 2 freeway car chase scence but i feel as if thats a little cleshay (spelling??) and want to try something a little different.

so speak your mind and have fun because i just might rename this thread to the "im using to many big words to say somehing really simple" lol

p.s. im really really reallly really bored at work and its only 930 here

Spawndn72

I-Robot. The "you are having a car wreck" scene.

Pablo

I agree with I-robot, also;
Star Wars II (the sound effects when they are chasing that probe thingy through the city are awsome, but there are a bunch of other good sounds as well)
Saving Private Ryan (That opening scene at high volumn and a good picture makes you feel like you are there [gets your heart going])

Schris22

Talking about use of surrounds?

Haunting for me or The daredevil scene where he just wakes up after becoming blind (semi short though) but full of all freq ranges

Chris

Ricardo

Master & Comander; first battle scene; if you have a good subwoofer you'll think they are actually shooting at you...then there is a lot of running steps that go all around the room....

McLoki

The Patriot - aim small, miss small.

Edit - house of flying daggers - echo dance and fight in the bamboo forest.

Michael

PolkThug

Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie trailer. Sounds like Leatherface is stomping right behind you.

aaharvel

Bram Stokers Dracula for me.

Ron-P

Signs, when the aliens are running around the outside of the house trying to find a way in.

thehaens@cox.net

Master and Commander - Great use of all channels in the battle scenes

Stir Of Echoes - Eerily passages during the movie....

And one other that I forgot the name to. Watched it one night on HBO or Showtime HD.....the story line goes that there is a guy that inherits a glass house that turns out to be some puzzle that releases ghosts.....remember now 13 Ghosts (?)

MacLeod

Star Wars Episode 1. The Lightsabre dual between Obi Wan and Darth Maul.

I love the sound of those sabres whirling around, especially when Maul would flip around. Plus, that 45 second bit is my alltime favorite fight scene.

kberg

I'll vote for Saving Private Ryan

F1nut

The best sound effects? A good long/loud **** in a large public bathroom, can't beat the reverb effect.

Frank Z

Tears of the Sun
Vertical Limit (Superbit/DTS)
Air Force One (Superbit/DTS)
U-571 (Depth Charge Scene)

tecmo04

i love u-571. first time i saw that scene i was sitting in a bose shop (give me a break i was a rookie). man i though it sounded fantastic. then when i heard it on some real speakers, wow breathtaking. i was scared for my life

gmorris

I also agree Master & Commander is the way to go. The cannon shots in the opening battle scene are simply awesome.

Another goody is Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Band of Brothers also has some good stuff.

Another oddball movie that you'd not expect to have alot of surround usage is Requiem for a Dream. The surrounds are very active in this.

movieguy

fifth element , ultimate edition in dts

michael_w

I don't think I've ever seen U-571... I'll have to pick that up sometime and check it out.

Saving Private Ryan is pretty decent. The intro to Ice Age isn't too bad either.

nellis8166

Hero...

gregure

I'll put through another vote for the first cannon batte in Master and Commander.

I also love the LOTR films for sound effects sequences.
My two favorites are the Dwarf tomb all the way to Gandalf's fall from Fellowship and the first appearance of the Witch King as the great signal comes up from the dead city in Return of the King. A lot of great sound effects. Maybe not as busy as some of the others suggested, but very effective.

michael_w

Just finished watching the battle in Master and Commander and was quite impressed. Very good if you have a decent sub.

Holydoc

Three of the best surround around movies I have seen so far was:

1) The Incredibles ~ Even comes with a THX optimizer
2) Finding Nemo ~ Really nice THX intro in the standard screen version
3) Pirates of the Carribean ~ Had me dodging bullets on Chapter 11

Whadyasay

The two (or three) best sound design sequences af all time, in my book, are the opening and ending of Saving Private Ryan, and the pod race in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. But really, the original Star Wars trilogy created sound design as we know it today, and some of the better ones that come to mind, a la Jurassic Park et al, ar just an outgrowth of what Star Wars and Skywalker Sound established, including all of the Pixar pictures.

millerman 3732

the first battle in master and comm. felt like some one kicked the back of the couch.
cool

ward91

Star wars episode 2
The huge battle in the arena plus The dogfights in pearl harbor both of these use DolbyEX (i think, starwars does im sure).