techsamurai
Standard Member
It's interesting when talking about movies that surround effects and LFE seem to be the top things we envision but after owning 2 surround systems for 20 years and using them for a million hours, I'm beginning to feel that music is much more important than people realize and might be the #1 thing. After all, music makes an emotional connection with us in a way that bass or a surround effect doesn't and it's the reason that movies go out of their way to create a superb soundtrack.
For instance, let's take a show like The Crown before we head into movies. The intro by Hans Zimmer sets the tone for the whole show. In another episode, they were playing Mozart's Lacrimosa and it was just sublime (I don't even like classical music but we were just mesmerized). The same goes for Westworld and Game of Thrones. Disney's Moon Knight was a musical tour-de-force. The Mandalorian also had some amazing closing credit songs.
When it comes to movies, music is even more important because they are as important as the dialogue, sometimes even more important.
Recently, we watched the intro to No Time to Die and my teenage daughter said to me "that was amazing" and I was equally stunned listening to it.
That's when it struck me that I've never been moved by music this way at a theater as I'm at home with my musical system. Case in point - No Time To Die, if I'd heard that at a superb theater with a multi million dollar sound system like my IMAX theater, I'd be "meh! it sounds good, dynamic, loud but it's missing the musicality."
The same goes for games where nowadays the music is used to great effect to immerse the player.
I'm just curious to see if others share the same conclusion.
For instance, let's take a show like The Crown before we head into movies. The intro by Hans Zimmer sets the tone for the whole show. In another episode, they were playing Mozart's Lacrimosa and it was just sublime (I don't even like classical music but we were just mesmerized). The same goes for Westworld and Game of Thrones. Disney's Moon Knight was a musical tour-de-force. The Mandalorian also had some amazing closing credit songs.
When it comes to movies, music is even more important because they are as important as the dialogue, sometimes even more important.
Recently, we watched the intro to No Time to Die and my teenage daughter said to me "that was amazing" and I was equally stunned listening to it.
That's when it struck me that I've never been moved by music this way at a theater as I'm at home with my musical system. Case in point - No Time To Die, if I'd heard that at a superb theater with a multi million dollar sound system like my IMAX theater, I'd be "meh! it sounds good, dynamic, loud but it's missing the musicality."
The same goes for games where nowadays the music is used to great effect to immerse the player.
I'm just curious to see if others share the same conclusion.