Subwoofer movies that DON'T suck? - Page 9

No!

Over 40% of the INDb voters have given it an 8 or better (60% 7 or more), so it has fans as well as detractors.

I enjoyed WotW. But i'll readily admit that it wasn't a Great Movie though.

I liked it. But then I liked Twister, The Hulk, Spiderman 1.... I enjoy many movies that the Foreign Language Film crowd find painful. About the only foreign language films I have liked starred Jackie Chan or Jet Li. I don't have to critique every movie I watch. I watch it, enjoy it or not, and put it away.

My DTS copy of the Haunting arrived yesterday from Amazon.

The scene where it gets cold in the room (when the banging on the door starts) came on . . . and I forgot that I had left the gain on my PB10 around 80% for the Room EQ Wizard stuff; plus, the receiver was at -18. And I'm in a room slightly bigger than 100 square feet. I almost had a heart attack during that scene.

Nope! I also enjoyed it.

I liked it a little bit, although the acting was kinda corny... like 2 fast 2 furious acting, that was corny too.

Avoid King Kong at all costs! what a King Kong-sized load of CGI crap that was! And watching Kong fight the dinos- when did headlocks and judo moves become something APES know?? sheesh, sometimes these programmers need to actually get out and experience the world a little, you know? But the bass is pretty cool, especially the scene where all the dinos are stampeding for 3 minutes. Worth watching just for the sound effects.

And where exactly should those programmers get out and experience fighting techniques of a 25' tall gorilla against three T-Rex's? Just kidding, I was thinking the same thing, but I have a pretty solid ability to suspend all disbelief and movies for what they are. Kong certainly wasn't one of the best movies this year, but certainly worth a watch.

Just curious, but what in this movie seemed real, so that a fighting ape seemed out of place?

Well thats a bit over the top, but I'd agree that King Kong was overrated as a film.

Is "The Haunting" still a bass reference disk today, or is it overshadowed by more capable films ? Because I was thinking of buying a new disk or two and I've seen WOTW and thought it was great, but I need something different with a lot of wow moments.

I've watched Flight of the Phoenix but I don't think that I should buy the film for two bassy scenes though. Any other contenders that are reference disks for bass as well as being quite good ?

--Sincerely,

>And where exactly should those programmers get out and experience fighting techniques of a 25' tall gorilla against three T-Rex's?

OK, good point. maybe Skull Island? My pet peeve is when the writers create a fantasy world, but then do stupid things within that fantasy world, like the ape kung fu stuff I referred to.

OK, I really don't want to become a major part of this conversation but aren't the martial arts for the most parts created from the movements of animals. So the animals must have had the kung fu first.

The dts version, at least, continues to be one of the best bass demo discs. It may be equaled occasionally, and some others may have spectacular individual scenes, but I doubt it will ever be totally overshadowed.

Watched Jumanji the other night with the kids. I had forgotten how much bass this movie has!

Watched "We Were Soldiers". Not sure the movie didn't suck, but the bass was pretty impressive. Lots of action from artillery, helicopters and the soundtrack itself had a LOT of very low stuff especially in the early part of the film where they were getting ready to leave for 'Nam.

Watched Behind Enemy Lines DTS with my new sub. Amazing what bass can add to the movie experience.

Munich. Comes only in spurts, but the bass was good. Oh yeah, and the movie doesn't suck.

Indeed, I was just about to mention this one, saw this a few days ago and there are some sort of tension-building bass parts that are pretty slick. And while I wasn't a big fan of the movie, it certainly doesn't 'suck' by any stretch.

For a kid movie `Over the Hedge' had a nice bottom end. THe BEar was very `Entish (talking trees from LOTR). The propane tank scene sounded sub 30HZ.

I don't quite get it. If you spend any time at all calibrating your system, why would you ever adjust it? Comments like "well, I forgot I had turned down/up my sub..." just don't make any sense to me.

Eric Clapton Live DVD. Excellent low end, Tears in Heaven excellent for demo-ing.

The other tried-and-true LFE movies have been mentioned countless times in the thread. Some bad movies ARE made better by having a sound engineer spend some time working on some good LFE. I've had people over who leave comments like "that was a whole lot better than I was expecting." Movies that fall into this category were Hellboy, Doom, and War of the Worlds. I think the LFE stuff had a big role to play. If we instead watched with tv speakers, some people might just opt to leave early or talk with one another.

Not sure where that was stated, but I agree. Calibrated flat is the goal.

The Incredibles

I just watched The Gladiator a little (DTS version) and the sound is awesome. I just watched the opening scene (fight scene) and the arrow scene is just awesome. The arrows whizzing by from the surround made it seem so real. I can't wait to finish the movie. Any good scene I just be aware of? Any good low bass scene you guys recall? I'll keep my eyes (ears) open.

Battle of Carthage is 1st one that comes to mind

The new version of Crimson Tide has some impressive bass.

While it is true that I haven't gone through all my movies (not even close) since I got my new sub, I believe I just watched the new Queen of LFE flicks. Underworld Evolution. Beginning to end, almost nonstop really low, shake-the-walls powerful stuff. I was actually sweating by the end. And Kate Beckinsale ain't hard to watch either.

I believe it is soon to be released on BluRay, so if you got the player, wait for it.

Wierd - I just watched this movie tonight - and I wasn't blown away by the bass at all? Granted there was plenty of bass but nothing like U-571 - War of the Worlds, or Master and Commander. Maybe I need to take a look at my settings.

Kate Beckinsale on the otherhand ... mmmmmmmmm ... good night now!

Because so many people refer to these as reference LFE movies, and because I don't watch movies over and over, I have held these in reserve until I finish my upgrades.

I found the LFE in UE was deep, powerful, and relentless. During the movie, I paused it and changed my subs tuning from 20Hz to 16Hz and things got even better.

What kind of sub do you have, and how big is your room?

I recently got a VTF-3 Mk2 for my 14.5x22.5 room, and started in 20Hz tuning mode (flat to about 16-17Hz). Calibrated to 1-2dB hot (reading same on SPL meter with Avia tones), I found the bass lacking with WoTW and other material at near-ref level. Running the sub hotter, I heard a lot of turbulence in the single port. Switching to the 25Hz tune (flat to about 19-20Hz), the calibration level was the same, but this change (amp's eq different, two ports open) gave me an extra 4dB of headroom. At the same calibrated level, much more bass and impact, no port noise from the air. If my room was smaller, the 20Hz tune might work. But I have opted for more impact rather than a few extra Hz I of inaudible bass. Or if I had a second VTF-3 (I wish...).

Anyway, I'm just wondering about your experience.

My next upgrade is a some panels from GIK acoustics for front corners and first reflection points. I already get pretty flat response, but the panels should clean up the bass and give me more bass (by minimizing reflection and cancellation), and get rid of a lot of reflected mids/highs so I get more of a "headphone stereo" effect from the mains.