# Most Excessive Sound Effect in a Movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722 "2003-12-08T07:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hydrocortisone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Hydrocortisone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hydrocortisone)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/1 "2003-12-08T07:40:13Z")
My vote is for _A Few Good Men_ when Jack Nicholson picks up his hat close to the end of the movie. The effect is just a little too much. What is your vote for most excessive sound effect. ---
**Author:** ![myles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@myles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/2 "2003-12-08T08:07:04Z")
Any sound from an explosion in space in a Science Fiction movie is excessive, in my honest opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/3 "2003-12-08T17:48:49Z")
There’s a scene in _The Morning After_ where Jane Fonda slams her hand down on a kitchen counter to emphasize her point in an emotional outburst. They must have dropped a mid-sized Chevy from a 50-foot crane to do the foley for that sound effect… ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/4 "2003-12-08T17:51:05Z")
In the commercials for “Snow Day,” the snowballs all made a “ploit” sound on impact, like someone being hit with a pie in a cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/5 "2003-12-08T18:43:00Z")
I remember there were a lot of “ploints” and “boinks” and such in **Batman and Robin**. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/6 "2003-12-08T19:29:16Z")
In Jurassic Park, when the fat dude (Newman from Seinfeld) slips in the rain, a cartoon type sound effect plays. It sounds ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/7 "2003-12-08T19:59:24Z")
The Firebird from _Smokey and the Bandit_. Driving along the highway at full speed, it sounds like he occasionally let in the clutch to rev the engine for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/8 "2003-12-08T20:05:51Z")
In the James Bond film _The Man With the Golden Gun_, a very neat corkscrew turn in midair in a AMC is ruined by a overly cartoony and badly-done sound effect that would make Tregowith Brown vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/9 "2003-12-08T21:04:10Z")
How about the gratuitous “ricochet sound” in every old western? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/10 "2003-12-09T01:45:39Z")
Nobody’s mentioned the campfire scene in **Blazing Saddles**? ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/11 "2003-12-09T04:55:41Z")
Or Jeff Daniels and the Turbo Lax aftermath bathroom scene in _Dumb & Dumber_? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/12 "2003-12-09T05:02:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by labtrash \* > \*\*How about the gratuitous “ricochet sound” in every old western? \*\* God, that damned ricochet…It’s in war movies, too. You’ll hear it even when the bullet _hit_ something. Like wood. Or dirt. Or flesh. Sometimes, you’ll even hear it as the _gun fires_. Like it’s ricocheting before it leaves the barrel. Someone’s going to foley artist _hell_ for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Carabeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Carabeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carabeo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/13 "2003-12-09T07:53:26Z")
The Fuc\* and Shi\* words used all over the Blair Witch’s Project movie. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/14 "2003-12-09T08:37:38Z")
How about the bowling pin strike sound in The Matrix Reloaded when Neo takes out a pile of Smiths. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/15 "2003-12-09T08:57:11Z")
How about the “whoosh” whenever anyone in a kung-fu movie throws a punch, delivers a kick, or picks up his mail? The “whoosh” of passing spaceships makes less sense, but I’ll admit that I miss it when it’s absent. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/16 "2003-12-09T10:55:19Z")
Any movie in which a character tosses something out of frame and you hear a crash and a cat yowling! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/17 "2003-12-09T11:40:38Z")
“xhi xhi xhi…ah ah ah” Carpenter’s Halloween movies ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/18 "2003-12-09T14:05:47Z")
Along the same lines as the “western ricochet” is the “tire squeal”. Tires squeal on wet, dry dusty, gravel, whatever roads. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/19 "2003-12-09T19:26:13Z")
Indiana Jones’ thunderclap punches. I think that, as westerns fell out of popularity, the richochet foley guy transfered jobs and took over the tire-squealing foley job. ---
**Author:** ![Mellon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Mellon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/20 "2003-12-09T20:16:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > **How about the “whoosh” whenever anyone in a kung-fu movie throws a punch, delivers a kick, or picks up his mail?** It’s not usually very realistic in any given movie but there is usually a whooshing sound when a someone trained in a martial art throws a good punch. It comes partly from the clothing and partly from the way the guy throwing the punch tenses the muscles in the upper body to get the full weight of the body behind the punch, causing the air in the lungs to exit. Look at a Bruce Lee movie in slow motion and observe how his entire body from the belt up works as he punches. A few years ago there was a segment on someone training karate in the news (or similar non-fiction program) with some guy showing some punches and kicks. My mum asked where the sound was coming from and wouldn’t believe me even though it was obvious that they were authentic. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722.md?page=2)