Movies with stereo gear in them.

Damn you!

 

You've got me thinking of a film with a a load of McIntosh gear and I'm sure was a high-end turntable. It featured quite well in the film, too, not just something in the background.

 

Grrr, can't think of it now! It'll come.

 

All I remember from the film is: An older gentleman is in his nice house, I think theirs boxes around and possibly the only thing he's unpacked is his hifi gear. His ex-wife (possibly) visits about something and I think he takes a heart-attack or passes out for some reason.

 

Annoying.

Edited by KevDo - 6/29/11 at 11:51am

In one of the "Three... Extremes" short films, the middle one I believe, the guy has a McIntosh stereo

The Mechanic has a pretty sweet audiophile setup. Don't know what any of it is though.

 

Edited by sesshin - 6/29/11 at 12:05pm

 

http://juanjorodriguez.eresmas.net/r2rinmovies/r2rmovies.htm

 

 

 

 

Edited by balderon - 6/29/11 at 12:38pm

When I saw that movie I was like, "I want to be that guy"

One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

 

I marvel when multi-billion dollar snot like Inconception and Na'vi Pocahontas get better reviews than LP#9.

 

The slow-mo chase scene had me screaming laughing - many, many times.

 

Edited by Samgotit - 6/29/11 at 7:15pm

I seem to remember seeing some AudioEngine A5s in The Social Network, at one of the offices. Not super high end, but not bad for an office!

Most of the stuff I can remember from movies looked like crap, but I'm reading an old novel atm that features not one, but two, audiophiles. One Russian, one English and both have the same dream - to spend their retirement nesteggs on the gear needed to listen to Beethoven until they die. It was written back in the 80s, and the whole thing revolves around a spy code based on music - its more about the brutality of the Russian Gulag than audio, but I still find it interesting when the heroes normally have more cliched and predictable hobbies.

I think there's some hifi gear at Matt Damon's "the departed"

There's a gorgeous J.A. Michell Hydraulic Transcriptor in "A Clockwork Orange."

Fun trivia fact: Michell designed and built the spaceship in "2001."

has some Mcintosh and I think some sennheiser headphones.  If my memory serves me correctly they were HD280.

Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? 
Paul Allen: They're OK. 
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor. 
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram. 
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen? 
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something? 
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen. 
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat? 
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. 
[raises axe above head] 
Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul! 
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him] 
Edited by elbuzzard - 6/30/11 at 8:21am

The scene in the movie was funny, but the book took it to a whole other level with an entire chapter devoted to extolling the virtues of Huey Lewis and th