Your top 10 dvd's!!!
mantis
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What are you top ten dvd's.Why?Sound?Movie?Picture quality?
Dan
Dan
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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What are yours? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
MC -
Please don't crit me tastes:
1. Apocalypse Now: Redux
2. Fifth Element DTS
3. U2: Live From Boston
4. Star Wars: Episode I
5. 12 Monkeys
6. Brazil Criterion
7. X-Men
8. Braveheart
9. Godfather Trilogy
10. Fantasia 2000
Yeah I know they are nearly all recent DVD releases... I've had a player for four years... it just worked out that way. -
1. American History X
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Braveheart
5. K-Pax
6. Patton
7. A Few Good Men
8. The Matrix
9. Lethal Weapon 4
10. Gladiator"I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed."
Thom Yorke of Radiohead
SOPA. Bow down before me, ****. Want a cookie?
Polk Audio LSi15
Polk Audio LSiC
Polk Audio FXi30
Samsung LN-T4061F 40" 1080P LCD HDTV
Sony Playstation 3
Outlaw Model 990 Pre/Pro
Rotel 985 MK II
Rotel 1072 CDP
Soundstage Vacuum II tube pre -
1. Akira(THX ver) - great audio and video. Anime makes a great video test.
2. Matrix - everybody knows about the lobby scene.
3. Fantasia 2000 - Sounds and looks great. The daughter likes it.
4. Jimi Hendrix-Live at the Isle of Wight. - It's Hendrix. It's actually a stereo CDV, but Red House will blow your socks off.
5. Sound of Music - This is what WS was designed for.
6. Terminator 2 - Everybody knows why.
7. Dune (Frank Herberts mini-series version) - Could you imagine all the rewinding and fast-forwarding of VHS.
8. The Patriot - The deleted scenes would've given this movie an NC-17.
9. The Phantom Menace - Great bass and surround. The added material in the pod race should've been in the theater. "Yousa people gonna die?" compared to finding out what happenned to the 10 (or-so) other racers?
10. Rental **** - It's all good in surround.
I'm at a handicap. I only own about 25 DVDs.Make it Funky! -
1) Heat
2) Godfather Trilogy
3) Platoon
4) T2
5) Matrix
6) Gladiator
7) Pulp Fiction
8) Unforgiven
9) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
10) Braveheart -
OK Micah you better hold up your end!!!!
10)Last Action hero-just out of control scenes!
9)The Fifth Element-Superbit-Bruce Willis'Milla Jovovich-thats why!
8)Fight Club-you can't be that **** up.
7)Men In Black-In DTS-They make a great team
6)The fast and the furious-Eye candy,fast cards,Eye candy.
5)Gone in 60 seconds-Elenore-enough said
4)Pearl Harbor-good story and great test DvD
3)Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon-Michelle Yeoh,Zhang Ziyi-babes
2)Star wars ep1-a must for fans-another great test disc.
1)Jay and Silent BOB strikes Back-Just to funny,I love all of them.
Now Micah- let me see your's..............That doesn't sound right!!
DanDan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time. -
This is based on PQ and SQ, not quality of film, like acting or directing.
1.Fifth Element-Superbit: Superior Video and Audio
2.Fast and the Furious- Universal's masterpiece
3.Training Day: Great Video and Audio (though only DD 348kb/s)
4.Fight Club: What a great movie!
5.Matrix- Great Audio, not so great video(green filter, I know it was meant that way)
6.Heat- Great Audio and Picture
7.Desparado-Superbit: Absolutely stunning black levels
8.Blade- REFERENCE QUALITY! VIDEO + AUDIO!
9.SW I: The Phantom Menance: What a horrible movie but what great surround effects! ALOT OF DISTURBING EE!
10. Pearl Harbor- Great Audio, not so great storyline -
In no particular order:
1) Atlantis - One of Disney's best IMO and very good sound.
2) Star Wars Episode I - Because it is Star Wars and the others aren't on DVD (yet).
3) Eagles Hell Freezes Over - The best live music DVD I've seen and the Eagles are one of my favorites.
4) Jurassic Park - Because it is the first JP and I like them all.
5) Toy Story - Disney's Best.
6) The Princess Bride - One of my all time favorite comedys.
7) Animal House - I could watch this movie anytime.
8) The World Is Not Enough - Bond...James Bond.
9) The Planet of the Apes (the original) - It was ahead of its time and still a great movie.
10) The Mummy - A fun flick to watch."Just because youre offended doesnt mean youre right." - Ricky Gervais
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson -
Moulin Rouge- great audio and video
Top Gun - old but good
Shrek - very cool
the haunting - great audio and vid a scary moveie that gave me the creaps
sphere - good plot
Atlantis - have to put that sence beauty and the beast is not on dvd yet
x - good plot but different
matrex - watchet that movei to many times
Titan A.E. a good all around movie
Lost In Space very cool plus i lived the tv series
my movies are in no piticular order i had troubble with the top ten i could have gone to 20 -
1. Fight Club - THX Tyler Durden Goodness, my favorite film
2. Akira - THX Kaneda Goodness, my second favorite film
3. Saving Private Ryan DTS version - sound and video that grips you and won't let go, my favorite sounding DVD
4. Jurassic Park DTS version - Spielburg + DTS = amazing, pretty much tied with SPR for favorite sound.
5. Moulin Rouge - Smoltering Temptress
6. Desperado - Stunning use of audio, Superbit even better
7. Princess Mononoke - Beautiful animation and great sound, even better movie
8. Dances with Wolves DTS - Beautiful movie, great sound
9. Office Space - I watch it so much it hurts
10. Gladiator - great DTS sound and good picture, watch the fight scenes, skip the rest -
Tough choices from among my paltrey 120 or so DVDs, but here are my two lists:
Top 10 for quality DVD film experience (best film rendering on DVD), DVDs that really make me a fan of the medium because they look and sound so damn good after years of horrible P&S VHS versions:
AMADEUS -- and a SE is on the way, hoo-doggies!
ALIEN -- nothing, and I mean nothing, equals chapters 11-12 for flat out big-bug terror.
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI -- a spectacularly beautiful widescreen image, finally!
CAPE FEAR (1961) -- stunning widescreen B&W is perfectly rendered.
DEAD CALM -- a great little scary flick, and looks and sounds great even tho it's non-anamorphic and only stereo.
THE EXORCIST (25th Anniv Ed) -- the best possible version looks and sounds amazing.
LA CONFIDENTIAL -- a DVD rendering so detailed that you can see the electronic edits and bad hairpieces!
LEAVING LAS VEGAS -- a beautiful image and great sound.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA -- the best looks the best on this DVD set.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST -- glorious digital restoration, a great DVD.
Top 10 for effects (DVD experience) quality, the DVDs I use to show off:
AMADEUS -- opening scene, with the absolute best version of the 25th symphony, first movement, ever; always chilling and a great show-off moment for a good sound system.
12 MONKEYS -- cool, enveloping surround environment.
BLADE -- pounding, cannon-like gunfire and music.
CONTACT -- chapters 11 & 12 are a great demo (and so is the opening sequence).
PINK FLOYD: THE WALL -- awesome multichannel restoration of great music.
DAS BOOT -- claustrophobic, enveloping, totally "immersive" DVD experience
THE FUGITIVE: SE -- chapters 5 & 6, when the train barrels into your lap!
TWISTER: SE -- opening sequence
DIE HARD: SE -- chapter 37 (I think), the "Chair Bomb," big exposion makes subwoofer go boom in impressive ways.
RONIN -- loads of car chases, thunderous gunfire and nice image rendering make a cool demo disc.