Best movie for subwoofer test ?


What is the best movie or movies to test subwoofer.
thank you.
laptopdoc
There is a massive list of sub heavy movies on the avs.com site. They even cite the chapters etc.

Go to the forums section called Subwoofers/Transducers and you're off to the races.
I find War of the Worlds with the scene of the spaceships when they first appear to be the lowest note I have ever heard through my sub. Lots of movies have explosions but this is more like a pipe organ the size of a large building.
Master & Commander/Far Side of The World.
U571
War Of The Worlds

The complex soundscape of M&C will give an entire surround system a real work-out, especially the sub - the LFs plumb the depths on all sorts of things, including, of course, cannon shots and explosions. If the sub doesn't spit the bit on M&C then it's passed the test.

If the sub sounds like undiferrentiated low rumblings on these different movies, forget it, it ain't good enough. You should be able to tell the depth charges from the cannon shots from the rumbling spaceships.

Alos like
1) the opening chapeter to The Fellowship of the Ring, and "Battle of Helms Deep" from The Two Towers

2)Chapeter 11 (T-Rex Attack) from Jurassic Park

3)King Kong, the battle with the T Rexs', is about the best I can think of from any movie as far as a sub workout.