The Bourne Ultimatum. I remember when I first watching, knowing that it had the Oscars for sound mixing and editing wrapped up. The scene in Waterloo is particularly good.
2001: A Space Odyssey. The opening 25 minutes are particularly good.
The Fountain. The sound mix throughout is generally quite good, but the last five minutes particularly so.
Saving Private Ryan. The Omaha beach sequence is so particularly good it hurts.
You could also do a lot worse than listen to some well-produced surround sound music. This essentially comes in two varieties: studio albums which may have been produced as 5.1 music from the ground up or remastered from old master tapes (as is the case with just about any surround sound music before Alan Parsons); or live albums where you pretty much get the band in front and the crowd behind, and they're far less interesting. I'd especially recommend:
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (especially Time and Money)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
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