Comments on: The Best Home Theater Demo Scenes

By: Puneet Singh

Puneet Singh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:36:37 +0000

Two of my favourites:

1. The opening narration and Sauron's death from LOTR: FOTR. The "shockwave" at Sauron's death is sub-sonic and will test your Sub quite nicely. You will feel the sound before you hear it!

2. For working out the surround speakers, one of the initial fight scenes where beans are thrown on drums and the woman is pretending to be blind from House of Flying Daggers

By: myangeldust

myangeldust — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:56:10 +0000

HULK: Scene where big guy escapes bunker and is first attacked by tanks, takes a nap, then gets chased by helicopters. Ends with him taking a nap. (From what I can remember.)

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:45:15 +0000

It determines signal clarity, and loudness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_by_five

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:03:33 +0000

I haven't watched that movie in a while. I have it on DVD and haven't make the upgrade to Blu-ray. I need to check it out again.

Tangent: As I remember it, Jodie Foster's character keeps saying "Everything is 5 by 5" in that scene. I've heard that in other movies as well (Apollo 13?), and I know it means "all is well", but I've never figured out the derivation of the term why it's used. It must be somehow related to an aviation checklist.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:34 +0000

The launch scene from Contact with Jodie Foster has always been one of my favorites.

By: Depechie

Depechie — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:24:52 +0000

A very good action list, but to get everyone's attention from the start, I would add the deep see explosions of the movie U-571