HT Owners: What are your favorite movies or clips to show off your Home Theater

[dfergie]

What are your favorite movies or TV Shows to show off your equipment whether either of the HD-DVD formats or Regular DVD or even from an HD Dvr.
HD Dvr:
Star Wars Episode III
Csi's from CBSHD
Soundstage Heart
Soundstage Sugarland

Dvd:
Pixar movies
Saving Pvt Ryan (Dts)
STNG movies (Dts when ava)
Jurassic Park movies (Dts versions if ava)
Eagles Hell Freeze's Over (Dts)
Eagles Farewell Tour (Dts)
Top Gun (SE Dts)
Gladiator (Dts)
more to come...

 

[rad]

I like to use Gladiator, wish it would hit HD-DVD soon.

 

[charper1]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day DTS
X Men 1.5 Extreme DTS
Apocalypse Now Dolby Digital 5.1
Jurassic Park(s) DTS
Eagles Hell Freeze's Over DTS
Monsters, Inc. Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Hero DTS (Jet Li)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

 

[TommyTDFVC]

I recently heard Pirates of the Carribbean Dead Mans Chest. Watch when they first see the black pearl. There is a musical climax that ends with some of the lowest frequency I've experienced. It also made one of the subs hit maximum excursion! Running at 0db is not recommended for this!!!

 

[angiodan]

Pod Race from Ep. 1
The first few minutes of Duel of the Fates (people can't believe how much of a bottom end sound the sabers have)
"Crank it up" scene from Daytona on my DVR

Call of Duty 2 D-day beach level on the 360 if they have a few more minutes of time to spare, as well as Dfergies suggestion of Saving Private Ryan.

 

[dfergie]

Actually some of my favorites are the Demo tree disc's with some of the best parts of movies from a thread at Avs...

 

[BlackHitachi]

DVD 1. Any Pixar movies
2.Jurassic Park DTS
3.Gladiator DTS
4.Blade DTS
5.Hero DTS
6.Open Range (mostly for the sound!)
7. Heat (De Niro and Pacino) and the gun FIGHT!!

HD- DVR 1. Good the Bad the Ugly
2. Scareface
3. Smart gardening (pbs) Pic quality great
4. CBS Football
5. Lost

 

[dfergie]

I kept Open Range for 3 months on my 921, the opening with the Thunderstorm and the gunfight at the end are awesome for LFE and surround effects...

 

[dishnet520]

Days of Thunder -- Old movie, but the sound is like you are at the race.

 

[BlackHitachi]

I kept Open Range for 3 months on my 921, the opening with the Thunderstorm and the gunfight at the end are awesome for LFE and surround effects...

Oh yea i did too!! I also like Unforgiven thunderstorm part!!

 

[vurbano]

Kong in HD DVD DD+ 5.1 when it comes out in November. I suspect it will be reference quality.

 

[long_time_DNC]

HD DVR:

1) Star Wars: Episode III. The first 20-minutes shows off things quite well.
2) Open Range. I've had it on my 622 since before HDNet Movies got downrezzed.

DVD:

1) Blade Runner - Director's Cut, Remastered
2) The Fifth Element (Superbit) - DTS
3) Swordfish - DTS
4) Steely Dan: 2 Against Nature - DTS
5) The Eagles: Farewell Tour - DTS
6) Jurassic Park - DTS

I'm not touching High Def DVD until there's a clear winner in the format war.

 

[mikew]

Tombstone - Another great thunderstorm sequence
Die Hard 3

 

[long_time_DNC]

Tombstone is a terrific movie too. That'll be great to see in HD someday.

 

[Kevinw]

No one mentioned this one
Das Boot Best audio ever

 

[long_time_DNC]

The Superbit version of Das Boot is terrific, I agree!

Another very good "shake the floors" movie is U-571. The DTS track during the depth-charge scenes is astounding!

 

[BlackHitachi]

Tombstone is a terrific movie too. That'll be great to see in HD someday.

Another very good "shake the floors" movie is U-571. The DTS track during the depth-charge scenes is astounding!

YES!! and YES!! Time to get out some DVD'S!!

 

[dfergie]

ID4 early on when they show the Apollo 11 tranquility base site and the ship flys over...

 

[long_time_DNC]

Oh yeah! That scene can ruin a really good sub...

 

[SpenceJT]

Off the top of my head here are a few of my favorite demo scenes.

• The opening scene from the movie Contact
• The bi-plane fly-over in The Mummy
• The door pounding scene in The Haunted
• The arrival of the Polar Express
• The beach scene of Saving Private Ryan
• The ice field scene from Titan A.E.
• The scene from LotR-tFotR where Gandalf defeats the Balrog
• The "God" creature speaking in Star Trek V
• The pod race scene from Star Wars Episode One

...just to name a few