-=> Quoting Roger Fingas to Lee Jackson <=-
 RF> But is there one film or game in particular?
 LJ> No. I don't limit myself this way.  I draw upon anything that I think is
 LJ> good.
        A good policy, but frustrating to inquisitive fans.  ;)
        Some of my favourite sound came from LucasArts' Full Throttle.  In 
general, every sound was quality work, but the vehicles were something else.  
They recorded engine sounds from real Harleys and trucks, and for the more 
unusual vehicles they did some interesting tweaks and combinations (the 
Cavefish's superbikes, for instance, were a mix of standard bike sounds and 
high-pitched bee buzzing).
 RF> BTW, on a side note - do you ever listen to the THX start-up
 RF> noise with the volume cranked up?  I do.  
 LJ> I had a remarkable experience along these lines many years ago, at a
 LJ> theatre.  When Star Trek 4 came out, my wife and a friend of ours got
 LJ> together to see it.  We lived in Austin at the time, 
 LJ> and went to one of the
 LJ> first few THX theatres in the State.  It was actually the second THX 
house
 LJ> in Austin, still quite new, and the theatre company was quite proud of 
t
 LJ> and all of its improvements over the first one.  The movie itself was so
 LJ> popular that the theatre decided to pretty much show it all day long,
 LJ> starting at around 5:00am.  We didn't make the first showing, but we did
 LJ> make the second.
        My most intense movie experience would have had to be Jurassic Park.  
I arrived at the theatre a half-hour early to find the seats nearly full.  I 
was so excited to be there that it took most of the movie to come to grips 
with the fact that I was actually watching it.  
        But principally, it was the first film I'd seen with DTS sound, and 
it was unlike anything I'd ever heard.  Full surround, and crystal clarity - 
which made it all the more suspenseful.
 LJ> Anyway, we went into the theatre, got seats in a good position to hear 
the
 LJ> sound, and sat down.  A few minutes later, the previews started showing.
 LJ> We sat through them, bleary-eyed and waiting for the coffee to kick in,
 LJ> when the screen went dark.  The three of us had been in a THX theatre
        The previews are always one of my favourtie parts of a movie.  It's 
usually because they often show more promise than the movies themselves.  
   
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