What is a good movie for home theatre system?

Angels In the Outfield has some really good sound effects hope this helps? wait what?

Well, if it's to test your surround sound system, i would try a new movie, one like the Dark Knight. It has many different sound effects. To test your system, you really want to test something with a little bit of everything. The Dark Knight has explosions, gunshots, crowd scenes, music, and much more! If the Dark Knight isn't your kind of movie, just pick something that meets that kind of criteria! =)

I've just been rounding up a few films I want to use. Gattaca. (Reasonable for testing soundtrack wise) The Time Machine - 2002, dir. Simon Wells [H.G. Wells' great-grandson.] (Very good for testing soundtrack wise) Memoirs of a Geisha (Very good for testing surround sound dialogue speech wise). Recommended each on the basis also of being films certainly worth buying on D.V.D. as opposed to any being a poor film with good sound for testing. I wouldn't want to recommend the latter. Try Compact Discs in your D.V.D. player for music. Most very serious testers will want to try dance music, pop music, rock music, folk music and classical music, for example. Important is trying the whole film / or say 30 to 40 minute portions while you relax and get an overall impression over a long while without even trying to test (if you have the time). Naturally, selecting portions of a few minutes to test one after the other when swapping speakers is a brilliant method also, and may be necessary if speakers are running a close competition. Then as well as the standard movies and music you hone down for using over time as being the best tests to you for speakers, just select some random stuff also. People can suggest good testing material, you should keep a list and try it out - and you may be aware when as you're watching films. It's a long term thing.