What is too much bass?

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I know with the size of a movie theater it’s difficult to really fill a room with good bass; or do we have too much bass at home in our much smaller area with two or more subs!

Reason for this thread, I have often read that people want their set-up to reproduce the sound as the director intended. Are we over doing it with multiple subs? I don’t mean the kind of bass where your windows shake and knick-knacks are falling off of the shelf or your unable to understand the dialog because the level of bass is just to overwhelming.

Once we get use to something and then you get less, a person will feel shorthanded and want it all.

I went to see X-Men yesterday and while watching this movie I was listening for the bass and I wanted to go tell the projections to plug in the subwoofers. Yet listening to the sound nothing was overwhelming, Yes the bass seem not to be there, but was that because I am so use to hard hitting bass at home and I’m not hearing it as intended by the director at home?

Believe me I love my subs and the level I have them, but are we over doing it with multiple subs? Or was I cheated out of the sound from the movie theater?