You've got company coming over and want to make a lasting impression on them with your expensive new home theater system. Quick - what DVD can you play that will instantly blow their minds? Now if you're anything like me, you can sit there staring at hundreds of DVD titles and yet draw a blank when it comes to showcase pieces. Well, no more! Just use one of these fantastic demonstration scenes as submitted by our members.

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Submitted by mark on 06/19/00.

12 Monkeys (69 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: various Features: excellent movement Description: anytime that voice talks to bruce willis, it moves from speaker to speaker

Submitted by asaf on 04/05/04.

2 Fast 2 Furious (13 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: opening scene of the movie Features: DD 5.1 Description: just hear the engines!!!

Submitted by Chris on 08/16/04.

2 Fast 2 Furious (20 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: 20 Features: 5.1 surround Description: In one of the last scenes when the Charger and rice burner are going at it towards the train, the enveloping sound is unbelievable!

Submitted by Steve Averett on 05/22/00.

A Bug's Life: CE (29 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: Chapters 1, 15, 32-34 Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Description: I can't believe no one has posted this one yet. Visually and aurally, this is just about one of the best DVDs you're going to find. Ch. 1 is a good example of the great ambient effects heard throughout the disc (wind, birds, rustling grass, insects moving about). Ch. 15 has some great bass and fly-bys as the bugs battle the attacking bird (personal favorite here is where Princess Atta's group of ants are making their way to the dry riverbed to see what's going on and you hear one of the female bugs screaming in the distance to the back-left). Ch. 32-34 is awesome first because of the sound of raindrops hitting all around you (especially impressive as they're flying over the water and you hear the "bloop, kerplunk" sounds surrounding you). Later, as the bugs fly away in triumph, note the awesome sound of the seed fireworks as they collide and explode in midair!

Submitted by Vic Taylor on 08/26/04.

AMBRA - Child of the Universe (7 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: ALL Features: Dolby 5.1 and DTS concept album Description: Follows on from AMBRA - Honour & Glory. A journey through the birth of the universe. Awesome sound and film that truely demonstrates digital surround sound. Includes excerpt of the Salvador Dali opera poema "Etre Dieu". This demonstrates his work in surreal pictures and sound. Totally mind blowing. Another must from www.amazon.de

Submitted by Vic Taylor on 08/26/04.

AMBRA - Honour & Glory (3 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: ALL Features: Dolby 5.1 & DTS Concept Album Description: AMBRA issue 1. Fascination of sound and nature. Awesome production of nature film with music and lyrics which involves you in the myths of the middle ages. Truely out of this world. A must for surround sound fans. I could only find it available at www.amazon.de. See also issue 2 - Child of the universe.

Submitted by Sean Eldridge on 06/19/00.

Air Force One (20 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: Dogfight scenes Features: 5.1 brillance Description: Whenever the jet fighters are fighting or just moving around, you hear them coming from just everywhere. Outstanding sound throughout the disc.

Submitted by Gary Walker on 06/22/04.

Almost Famous (3 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: Airplane during the thunderstorm Features: Great Surprise Description: This is the scene where they are flying along discussing the night before and go straight into a thunderstorm. The first time you show this, everyone (and I mean everyone) will jump!

Submitted by Rudolf Pitzler on 04/16/02.

Amelie from Montmartre (5 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: whole movie Features: exceptional rich soundfield Description: I can only decribe the German audio track as my video rental did not offer a multilingual version, but: I've never seen or heard a movie where the rear channels are _that_ busy ! The dialogues are quieter than usual (in synch'd soundtracks) and this is definitly _not_ an action movie , but there are tons of ambient noises (rain, wind in the trees, fountains in the parks, mopeds and voices all around in the streets and markets of Paris; particularly impressive are the railway station scenes - steel buildings produce a lot of subsonic rumble when a train rolls by :-)). This movie really "pulls" you into the screen action ! The picture quality is more than OK, too, though not exceptional.

Submitted by jason bhola on 03/09/01.

American Beauty (5 votes) - Rate This Scene - Voting Breakdown Location: Rootbeer Features: Accurate projection, crisp clean sound Description: This Scene in american beauty is so powerfull. your sub doesn't get much of a work out but if you have your other channels hooked up properly and have quality speakers you will understand