Favorite Sound Effects - Page 3

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A lot of good ones have already been said, so I'll just add the siren on the aircraft carrier in The Sum of All Fears.

Also, just about all the sound effects in Dark City, especially when someone's tuning.

This scene is the best thing in the series, and honestly exists on a different overall level of filmmaking. The direction and choreography of the duel is excellent, but it is the subtle use of sound, the subtle use of silence, that makes it drip with the implied power and force of the two wizards. It's what you hear, just as much as what you see that tells you you're watching one of the most powerfully epic wizard duels ever. The fact that the fight is fairly simple only helps.

Hail Stan Winston! And yet, also, sadly, RIP.

Probably the swarms of aliens or the Queen in the movie ALIENS. Those effects always worked right from the start. Or I guess the overall sound mix when you see the Predator hunting from his point of view in the original Predator.

"Come here. Over here, over here, over here. Turn around, turn around. HAHAHAHAHAHA."

It's always fun when the Predator tries to talk. RIP Kevin Peter Hall as well.

*As a side note, why didn't they explore more of the Predator's attempts to vocalize after the first film? Is it because any attempts to continue any threads of continuity were abandoned after Predator 2 didn't make enough money, or was it just because the AVP movies were written by retards?

Oh yeah!

And I have to say that I think Independence Day has a really great overall sound design. Saw it seven times in the theater at age 13 in '96. Helped massage out that pyromania it did. And that need to become Jeff Goldblum or Will Smith, because they're awesome.

It was too damned short is what it was! I wanted more. But I was satisfied. The only thing I wasn't fond of was the fact that it just kinda ends to move onto Voldemort going for a mental battle within Harry.

I swear, as visual fx budgets have gone up, all big sci-fi fantasy duels are creeping towards Dragonball levels of insanity (not necessarily saying that they're copying that series). Now, I'm a fan of Dragonball, but I don't think that this trend is a good thing. If it's not done well, it's utterly boring. Good thing the D vs V duel in OotP wasn't. It didn't overstay its welcome.

Another fantastic moment of sound design... the sucked-in moment of silence before Voldemort bellows and blows Dumbledore away. I love that kinda shit. Happened all the time in anime I used to watch when I was a kid.

EDIT: Gonna try to list the duels of sci-fi fantasy movies in the past several years that have made me think of Dragonball:

Neo vs. Smith (Matrix Revolutions)
Ice Man vs. Pyro (X-men 3)
Yoda vs. Dooku (AotC)
Yoda vs. Palpatine (RotS)

I feel like there's more, but I can't think too well right now. Ironically, a movie that didn't make me think of Dragonball... was Dragonball: Evolution. I'm tired of typing Dragonball.

The Ring Wraiths screech from the LotR trilogy makes my skin stand on edge.

The Powerloader from Aliens, like Robocop's sounds, have a distinctive tone and rhythm to them that really stand out to my ears.

The various Enterprise sounds, from the Bridge noises, torpedoes, phasers, transporter and communicator squeek are some of the most memorable non-Starwars sfx.

From Battlestar Galactica (70's version): the sound of the Centurion's eye moving back and forth

From Spielberg's War of the Worlds: second to the sound the Martians make, but also the sound the first Tripod makes as it leaves it's pit and stalks through the city

From LTOR: Second the Ring Wraiths cry/scream....just a vicious sound.

Most of the monster roars from the Godzilla series....

Two from Return of the King: the signal of Minas Morgul (love that moment of silence before the green flare shoots into the sky), and the screech of the fell beast at MM. I don't know if it was the speakers at the theater, but when it roar-shrieked I actually felt ill.

Now we're on this Lord of the Rings kick . . . I was coming in to add a sequence that I love not just for its use of sound effects, but its use of silence as sound, and that is the Gandalf vs. Saruman fight. It uses these very visceral sounds of the staffs hitting the floor punctuating the silence. Mixing those sounds with the sounds of Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee beating each other near to death makes the entire sequence stand out immensely in my mind.

The door to the Holodeck in Star Trek. I know everyone loves the swish noise the other doors make but this one actually sounds like its a heavy door on a motor.

You can't whack a good Federation phaser (The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine/Voyager.) It also gets points for ease of replication; taking a deep breath while sticking one's tongue out never sounded so good.

May I submit the clay pots breaking sound effect so perfectly used as a direct three=peat in Wet Hot American Summer? While not an original sound effect, its use does make for a perfect gag.

I bet it was recycled, but growing up I loved the wook-wook-wooka gun sound from Looker.

one more LOTR: the chik-chik-chik of the Witch-King's fingers on his gauntlets as he armors up

I really like the creepy haunting sound of the Icarus I distress beacon from the modern day classic film "Sunshine" from the director of slumdog

Another Star Trek one I've always dug from IV... the sounds the probe makes. The main sound may very well be distorted whalesong, but there's also what sounds like a touch of didgeridoo in there, and then that low throbbing hum under that.

Here is one that is awesome but overlooked:

The sound Kevin Costners pistols make when he shoots the guy holding annette benning hostage in 'open range'. almost cooler than indiana jones's gun.

-The Predator's sound when in heat vision
-Power Loader from "Aliens"
-The "horn" from the Tripods in the modern "War of the Worlds"
-Spider-man's web shooting sound.
-the insane, giddy last giggle of Scorpio in "Dirty Harry" as he reaches for that gun.