What's the most active surround track in a non-action film?

[Bluyoda]

Action films, including fantasy and sci-fi have great discrete surround activity much of the time, but dramas/comedies/romances etc. not so much.

Which non-action film has the most active discrete surround track?

Animation doesn't really count.

EDIT:

What I am looking for are films, such as Days of Heaven, Immortal Beloved, or Doctor Zhivago, where action clearly isn't of any major importance.

Titanic has too much action to qualify IMO, as it is a disaster movie, and those usually contain a fair amount of extras.

As I wrote above: Dramas/Comedies, and not action comedies. ETC.

[schan1269]

Immortal Beloved.

[Trigen]

Titanic (not the most surround channel usage, but still good)

[Kryptonic]

Se7en is up there. Such an atmospheric track.

[Batmon77]

Isnt Master and Commander highly rated here as an example of this?

[Number 6]

My Fair Lady......Dances with Wolves......Inside Man.

[Kryptonic]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Isnt Master and Commander highly rated here as an example of this?

Last I heard, that's an action/adventure movie.

[manicsounds]

Musicals or concert titles.

[tezster]

Life of Pi
All is Lost

[kuro_sawa]

Eraserhead

[toddly6666]

I really enjoy seeing how posters just dont get the thread. Seven, Titanic, Life of Pi, Dances with Wolves, Inside Man, Master and Commander - all elements of action in there. There are plenty of musicals that have awesome surround tracks but i'll leave those out for now.

Here are my choices:
- Amelie
- Rushmore
- Days of Heaven
- Heaven's Gate
- Requiem for a Dream
- Miral

[Kryptonic]

Se7en isn't an action film. It's a crime thriller with one extended foot chase. Hardly an "action" film.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

Se7en isn't an action film. It's a crime thriller with one extended foot chase. Hardly an "action" film.

That's not the point of the thread. I think what the OP is aiming for is awesome surround tracks of movies that are as far as possible from action-oriented films.

But I dont disagree with you about Se7en's audio - it's pretty awesome.

[Batmon77]

I knew this would spiral into semantics.

Non-Action means films that arent in the Action Genre. Thats how i interpreted it.

Dramas can have action but not be an Action film. Comedy can have action but not be an Action film.

****in' Life Of Pi is not in the Action Genre.

So now its films with absolutely NO ACTION scenes, that has great Surround.

Nymphomanic????

[Race Bannon]

Gosford Park

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

I knew this would spiral into semantics.

Non-Action means films that arent in the Action Genre. Thats how i interpreted it.

Dramas can have action but not be an Action film. Comedy can have action but not be an Action film.

****in' Life Of Pi is not in the Action Genre.

So now its films with absolutely NO ACTION scenes, that has great Surround.

Nymphomanic????

Action...adventure, same thing. Life of Pi would be the same as mentioning Cast Away, both adventure films with characters lost at sea. Ship wrecks, planes crashing, waves, storms....it's "action" pre-Michael Bay times. Have a starting point with My Dinner With Andre in mind. Work from that point.

[HD Goofnut]

All the President's Men
Doctor Zhivago
Papillon
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Action...adventure, same thing.

Bullshit.

The Expendables is not the same as Life of Pi.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Bullshit.

The Expendables is not the same as Life of Pi.

So any adventure movie without guns and explosions is a non-action film? Mother nature existed before Michael Bay. I guess Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Cast Away, and 2012 are not action/adventure films - they are all drama films then??? An adventure film is usually merged with the action genre - usually called "action/adventure." If a movie such as Life of Pie, The Grey, Vertical Limit, The Way Back, Cast Away, Gravity or Titanic involves some type of epic crash, challenges of Mother Nature, and many "adventures" to survive, that's not your usual dramas but these are movies that typically have awesome audio tracks. Get back to the topic rather than nitpicking the difference between The Expendables and Life of Pie: "movies with awesome audio surround tracks that aren't expected to have awesome audio surround tracks due to its genre." I wonder if it can be done? Yeah, let's all play dumb and pretend that watching trailers to Life of Pie and Se7en would make us expect dull, plain audio like in a Woody Allen movie.

"Golly gee, I just watched the trailer to Life of Pie. I wonder if that "epic ship crash and survival in the ocean with a tiger on my ass" movie is going to have awesome audio? Hmm, it's also playing in 3D and IMAX. hmmmmm"

[schan1269]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

I knew this would spiral into semantics.

Non-Action means films that arent in the Action Genre. Thats how i interpreted it.

Dramas can have action but not be an Action film. Comedy can have action but not be an Action film.

****in' Life Of Pi is not in the Action Genre.

So now its films with absolutely NO ACTION scenes, that has great Surround.

Nymphomanic????

Well...if went can't include "action" films...

We can't include Caligula.