Can anybody recommend an action movie w/awesome sound effects for my THX Klipschs?

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 9:24 pm

Just got the Klipsch's awhile ago, tried out a few DVDs', none of which seems to be doing the Klipsch's justice

Other than Romeo Must Die which has pretty decent sound

Preferable, no medieval stuff please. Jet Li and Jackie flicks are ok, although I've prolly seen most of them in real Chinese flicks already

Here's what I've seen already...

Just finished the movie Pitch Black, it was pretty decent, although not too spectacular. Not really my kinda movie.

Fight Club was pretty good as well, especially the air plane crash scene.

Gone in 60 Seconds, must say, sorry car lovers, but this was the worst purchase of 'em all. I usually like the Cage films, but not this one.

X-Men, its one of those movies where you watch once and off to the corner it goes eating dust.

World is Not Enough, not as good as Tomorrow Never Dies.

Wild Things was alright for a one-timer.

So I'm kinda itching for another DVD action flick, any recommendations? Something that's THX certified would be nice too.

LMK thanks,
Pluckster

blade · Post by **blade** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 10:51 pm

With great sounds I can think of The Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Heat, The Hunted, Blade and T2. Not sure if they all are THX certified though offhand. For a great sounding Cage film try Face/Off.

Rayzor · Post by **Rayzor** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 11:40 pm

Any LucasFilm

anyone know if StarWars is out on DVD yet, I know you can get'em on VCD's but dvd's?????

[Edited by Rayzor on 02-11-2001 at 11:42 PM]

VonJames · Post by **VonJames** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 11:43 pm

How about Alien or Aliens ?

THX
I'd watch the latter.

Solstice · Post by **Solstice** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 3:48 am

Play scene 32 in Heat. It's by far one of the best gun battles ever created for the big screen. With tall buildings on both sides of the street you hear everything echo in surround. Damnit now I have to watch this scene again. Thanks.

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 11:07 pm

Heat sounds like fun

What's it about fellas, without giving the whole movie away

Talking about VCDs, I have quite a few myself. Most of 'em are a mix bag when it comes to quality. The ones that are good are VERY good, definitely comparable to a DVD if you watch from a distance

Sounds aren't as great though, sometimes they can get out of synch.

BTW, for those who might not know. VCD uses Mpeg-1. It has became very popular in Asia, even more so that DVD, and a new SVCD standard has already been set. I believe they're using that standard so as we speak

My low budget Raite DVD player can do VCDs too, so that's quite sweet

Pluckster

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 11:51 pm

Heat is about the lives of professional bank robbers and the cops who try to catch them. Some of it is drama mixed in but then there are those immortal shootouts that really kick ass. And 2 acting legends, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro plus a fine supporting cast too.

Solstice · Post by **Solstice** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 11:51 pm

Heat stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, and Ashley Judd. It's basically your standard cops and robbers movie with a lot of great twists.

edit: nice blade, you beat me to the punch by seconds. lol

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 5:30 pm

What about Twister?
That had some earth shattering kabooms not to mention the thunder in the background!!

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 6:14 pm

abyss, armagedon, space balls, T2 is a good one but mentioned already.

Greg

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:08 pm

Didn't find Heat, but got Dinosaurs today. The computerized animation was truly quite amazing, everythings seems to come alive. No mip-mapping errors

Played quite nicely on the lappy, even better so on the big screen 32" TV w/the klipschs. The sound was equally impressive..., the music blended very well with the movie.

Wonder when will PC games look as amazing as they do in this movie eh? *drooling*

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:10 pm

i was gonna say heat

try apocalypse now if you can find - i'm sure the attack on the village would be awesome as well as the final scene

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 11:13 pm

yea to bad Dinosaurs was a sleeper. fricken Gay ass plot. all it was was I candy. Disney suks. they need to go back to there Old school cartoons like fox and the hound and peterpan and that sort of stuff. Rerelease them with ALL there Original footage liek the crock son in peterpan and other sorts of things. there new movies are just Gay! and I mean that ing the GAYEST sence of the word!

Greg

Reg Kmet · Post by **Reg Kmet** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 7:08 am

just a reminder, THX is a sound certification, not a format, correct?

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Wed Feb 21, 2001 8:12 am

I have to imagine that Saving Private Ryan would do justice to the Klipsch's. One of the finest war films ever created IMHO, and with full surround sound happening, the battle scenes would be incredibly intense.

[Edited by The Wraithlord on 02-21-2001 at 08:15 AM]