I do have a subwoofer. It is turned down to the minimum setting, but it gets pretty boomy in movies. We usually listen to classical music and some of that can crescendo.
Our Tech physics professor is coming for dinner, he likes movies after dinner, he hasn't seen a lot of great movies. He prefers comedies. He thought Groundhog's Day was an epiphany.
Something about quantum uncertainty and time loops.
He doesn't "act" smart, whatever that means, but he has a PhD from Harvard in physics, so I'm pretty sure he is. He also did enough to get a tenured job at a major U, he never taught anywhere else, he said he really never wanted to move.