Just Upgraded the Home Theater. Need Movie Suggestions!!?

I just went crazy and upgraded my setup big time. I'm now in the need to put the system to the test. I'm looking for two types of movie.

1 movie with great audio/surround sound/soundtrack etc. The kind of movie that keeps you looking behind because you think someone/thing is actually there. Something quality that will piss off my neighbors and anyone else withing 50 meters.

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Another movie that is visually jaw dropping. Something that will confuse the brain with its clarity and sense of reality,

If you have one movie in mind that contains both, then even better.

Thanks!

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Definitively Top Gun is a must and will test your sound system like no other movie, but go for the special edition DTS ES 6.1, It has an spectacular original intro music with deep bass (Top Gun Anthem) followed by a loud and fast rock music (Danger Zone) and those F14's flying by. This one will help you to determine a safe distortion free volume level for your system.

Star Wars special edition DVD with Dolby Digital EX 6.1 (mandatory for all HT fans) will take you out of your seat right from the begining of the movie just with the THX intro (remember THX is a Lucasfilm technology and here they show the full potential of Dolby Digital EX and THX surround EX). The DVD presentation and menus are spectacular too and I think they are the best ever (It changes randomly between 3 different menu backgrounds each time you insert the discs).

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy take the best advantage of Dolby Digital EX 6.1 technology with a lot deep bass, surround and surround back effects along with spectacular visual effects. Play the movie Return of the king - When smeagol kills his partner at the beginig of the movie there's a increasing very deep bass heart beat. This will help you control your room resonances (If they are present then you will have to locate the source and correct them or you will have to decrease the volume level of your subwofer)

Lion King special edition (with DTS 5.1 DEHT disney enhanced home theater mix - I don't know what this people did here but the sound is flawless)

On the ?us stampede scene feel the vibration under your feets at the same time little stones shake near simba (if not then you may want to increase the volume level of your subwofer)

Check ambience recreation with echoes into the canyon.

Check dynamic range management. (soft sounds and loud sounds within the scene) Not everything about Home Theater is loudness. Soft sounds like those on this dramatic scene are very important and they get lost if there's to much ambient noise so check this.

Jet Li's Hero (DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1) will teach you to appreciate subtle effects and ambience reproduction.

Once you analize those movies and scenes then I will recomend to play movies like Jerry Maguire, Devil's Advocate, American Beauty or Romeo+Juliet, you will be amazed on how this movies manage scenes in ways your normal tv speakers cannot. Either subtle, soft or loud sound scenes, ambience and surround effects, music and bass management.

Remember to check the right connections of your system or you are going to experience nothing. Use digital coaxial or toslink cable when connecting the DVD to the A/V receiver and be sure to select the digital input (usually this is default) select the apropiate DSP mode from the Disc menu and on the receiver (Dolby Digital/EX - DTS/ES). If you have a One box surround system with DVD player incorporated then you should be covered on the connection side.

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ive got a good movie suggestion. buy "KKK: The Knights of America"
Try the Lord of the Rings trilogy, worked for us when we did this. The scene with Gandalf and "You cannot pass" was wonderful!
The Matrix

Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Sci-fi stuff is good on the HD
any of the big epic movies will do that for you.
Superman Returns is awesome both visually and sonically!
Home Theater magazine reviews movies for their picture and sound quality. The link below will take you there. Look for the place to click for more reviews. I think "Saving Private Ryan" is still pretty hard to beat for sound quality. "Cars" has great great sound and video. "U 571" has some excellent scenes that will show off the sound quality of your system. "What Dreams May Come" has some stunning video.
a great movie for sound purposes is Top Gun, for visual,i would say 1 of the new starwars movies or lord of the rings,and if your new setup is blue ray capable,go that route,it's a little better than plain dvd.
Here's a link that lists about a dozen titles with which versions to purchase, the correct audio track and recommended chapters to demo...Click right here: http://www.avtruths.com/testdiscs.html
Hi. Some of the best movies for sight and sound were actually made in the 60's and 70's even though to-days technology was not available back then. There is still plenty of rear information in them which was probably recorded unintentionally .I thoroughly recommend them particularly if you have a projection and screen.These are my favoroute 5

GRAND PRIX. (1966) A spectacular movie about the 9 Formula One races in the European Grand Prix .You are right in the middle of the action traveling nearly 200 miles an hour and the 6 channel soundtrack envelopes you in sound.Some scenes are filmed with a remote control camera which moves from behind the driver out over the front wheel turns back for a side view before back behind the driver again at 200 miles per hour on a steeply banked circuit

Filmed in 70 MM Super Cinerama the race scenes(and crashes ) are awesome.

Steve Mc Queens' La Mons movie and Days of Thunder are no match for Grand Prix.

TOMMY. 1975 A Rock Opera by The Who is a movie about a deaf dumb and blind boy who becomes a Pinball Champion The visual effects are stunning and just keep coming .The original soundtrack was recorded in 5 channel "Quintophonic"sound.It is a visual and sonic masterpiece to show off your system.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.1968. Stanley Kubrick 's visually stuning movie about space,set to the music of Strauss and filmed in Super Panavision 70 MM.This movie is a must have for its magnificent visuals

POLTERGEIST.1982.Steven Speilberg 's movie about the supernatural.with visual effects by Industrial Light and Magic.Suspenseful ,scary,witty and imaginative.Filmed in Panavision.

THE BIRDS 1963. Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece about attacking birds Before the days of digital effects there are 370 trick shots which actually look more "real"than some of todays computerised images..No music only bird sounds. Superb photography together with unnerving suspence, The Birds have stood the test of time.Thoroughly recommened if you like a horror movie about birds.