Apart from Demo's and Samplers

[leonsound]

This reminds me of a relatively old movie "The wild Side", in which Christopher Walken plays his usual cool character.
There are some shooting scenes where the gun shots sound exactly like they really sound when you fire e.g. an R4 rifle while wearing earplugs - you distinctly hear the mechanical motion in the rifle over the muffled "bang" sound of the powder., which in the case of a rifle happens almost next to your ear and is much louder than the bang.

Then a friend of mine swears by "True Lies" (Arnie) for it's awesome sound, some helicopters I think (never saw it)

There was an ancient movie featuring John Travolta "Blow Out" where he was a movie sound man or something, and he accidentally records some underhanded wheelings & dealings. The sound play is quite important to the movie and even though this was probably a stereo movie (like possibly "Wild Side") it can be fun to watch (and listen) to attentively.

[Andrew]

This reminds me of a relatively old movie "The wild Side", in which Christopher Walken plays his usual cool character.
There are some shooting scenes where the gun shots sound exactly like they really sound when you fire e.g. an R4 rifle while wearing earplugs - you distinctly hear the mechanical motion in the rifle over the muffled "bang" sound of the powder., which in the case of a rifle happens almost next to your ear and is much louder than the bang.

Then a friend of mine swears by "True Lies" (Arnie) for it's awesome sound, some helicopters I think (never saw it)

There was an ancient movie featuring John Travolta "Blow Out" where he was a movie sound man or something, and he accidentally records some underhanded wheelings & dealings. The sound play is quite important to the movie and even though this was probably a stereo movie (like possibly "Wild Side") it can be fun to watch (and listen) to attentively.

+1 on the rifle comment. The R5 had a softer mechanical clack, but you heard it well.

Was thinking, we're all, I think, talking about loud examples, but sometimes a quiet scene can also test the DVD/Blu-ray/AV theatre's abilities for realism: echoes in a tunnel, water dripping, etc.

[KlyvQ]

+1 on the rifle comment. The R5 had a softer mechanical clack, but you heard it well.

Was thinking, we're all, I think, talking about loud examples, but sometimes a quiet scene can also test the DVD/Blu-ray/AV theatre's abilities for realism: echoes in a tunnel, water dripping, etc.

If memory serves, I watched Hollow Man and there's a scene where he is walking in the bedroom - on the carpet. The foot steps sound pretty much like they would, if u were right there (it think, it was my Dad's Marantz system and i was quite young) 

[Stereophreak]

This probably needs a different thread, but I found Bioshock impossible to play at night because of the soft ambient echoes and footsteps, and I'm not afraid of many things, almost immune in fact.
So yes, it's very often the softer, more delicate sounds that set the stage.

There is a scene in Rango, where the bad guys shave a poor bald chicken's cheek with a bowie knife, and the sound of the feathers being shaved off with the knife is perfect. If you've got the dvd or bd, please watch that part, it's in the beginning as the bad guys enter the saloon. It's sounds like this that make a movie really real.