Recommendations on movie scenes for subwoofers

Still one of the best continous huge bass lines is in the movie Blade II. There is a scene shot in a vampire dance club that pounds the subwoofer for several minutes with huge bass. As already mentioned, War of the Worlds, when the aliens first emerge has quite a long scene to work out your subwoofer to help dial it in.

U-571 or the drum/bean sequence in House of Flying Daggers. That will also give you a great surround demo.

Here's my vote for testing sheer bass impact in a movie- After you've dialed in your system with the recommendations above, invite some friends over to watch "The Whale Rider".

It's a very good movie and a slightly sad story about a little girl who is sad and there's hardly any LFE at all... You may start feeling a little embarassed that your system isn't being "put to the test" but you will be lulled into this sweet and sad story so you won't really mind and then you will forget all about subwoofers and that sort of thing... and then out of nowhere late in the film there is an underwater scene where a very large beached whale starts to wake up and gets pissed-off and when it tries to swim away slams it's tail on the ocean floor... KA-BOOM! It practically lifts your house off the foundation. You can almost see the walls flex in your theater room when this hits. They absolutely nailed this scene in the sound mixing and the bass is so clean and overwhelming you actually feel it more than hear it.. Awesome. -jz