A Nixa man put a 'Star Wars'-themed home theater in his new house. It may be the only one of its kind in the world.

Correction: Colin Williams' first name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.

When Patrick Williams told his wife that he wanted to put a "Star Wars"-themed home theater in the house they were building in Nixa, she rolled her eyes.

"In a good way," he said.

"Little bit," Stephanie Williams agreed. She smiled, coffee mug in hand, during a quick interview before going to her real-estate job.

"I thought it was a little ridiculous," she told the News-Leader, referring to her first reaction to Patrick's passion project, which he calls The Force Theater.

But, Stephanie said, she knows her husband's love of music, movies and gaming. So she greenlighted the theater.

Still, "it turned into something bigger than I had anticipated," Stephanie said.

Patrick's "dedicated home theater" project (don't call it a mere "media room") may be the only one of its kind in the world. It is meant to prompt "nerd chills" in anyone who enters its confines.

With a steely look loosely inspired by the Death Star and other Star Wars vessels, it could almost stand in for a movie set, albeit one equipped with plush carpeting, cushy power recliners and embedded cupholders.

It has attracted more than 40,000 pageviews and "hundreds of thousands" of comments on AVS Forum, a website where audio- and video-philes debate the finer points of things like Nexlux LED strip tape lighting and Quest brand acoustical interiors. (The Force Theater contains four kinds of them: Q-Fractor, Q-Excel, Q-Perf and Q-Flector.)

The state-of-the-art technology in The Force Theater cost tens of thousands of dollars. It took six months of construction, said builder Mark Martin, who oversaw construction of the Williams home along with 20 other houses in their Nixa neighborhood.

Before that, Patrick spent two years doing research, Martin said.

Martin has built a lot of houses with media rooms, none as complex as the one in the Williams home. The only comparable project Martin could think of was a wine cellar he redesigned for a family whose vino collection was worth a few million dollars.

Martin added that if Patrick wanted, he could design home theaters for a living.

Maybe so. Patrick can explain every nuance of The Force Theater with as much detail, enthusiasm and verve as a revival preacher citing chapter and verse.

For example, The Force Theater has a type of soundproofing so sophisticated that it's not even called soundproofing: It's "sound isolation," meaning the room is completely "decoupled" from the rest of the home. The theater's floor, walls and ceiling don't touch any other part of the structure.

"I wanted to be able to turn it up to louder levels and not hear it and feel it in the rest of the house," Patrick explained. His home office — he's a sales director for a Wisconsin-based company — is next to the theater.

If his son, 6-year-old Colin, decides to watch his favorite movie (the kid loves "Polar Express" and all things Harry Potter), no sound is audible in the office.

Same goes for the great outdoors. When the News-Leader visited the Williamses' Nixa subdivision Thursday, the next house over in the cul-de-sac was under construction. The motor of a large forklift grunted; its back-up beeper bleated. Inside The Force Theater, you'd never know.

Patrick wanted to play a couple of his favorite movie scenes to show what his theater could do, so he opened up an oblong door beneath the 10.5-foot display screen, a Severtson Screens Cinema White MicroPerf 2.35:1 LF235127, as it turns out.

A Blu-Ray player and a PS4 Pro game console, along with servo-powered subwoofers, were behind the door.

He popped in a Blu-Ray disc — the theater also allows for streaming services like Netflix — then used an Amazon Alexa home digital assistant to turn down the lights. (A smartphone app controls the room, too. Those sets of multiple clunky remotes that people had in the '90s and 2000s? They don't exist here.)

The room was covered in almost complete blackness, with the exception of a few electric-blue lights coming from USB smartphone chargers embedded in the cupholders embedded in the cushy recliners.

Then Patrick queued up a chase scene from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." In it, Rey and Finn pilot the "Millennium Falcon," fleeing a pair of Imperial TIE fighters. As spacecraft roared and wheeled across the sky, the bass speakers tipped everyone in the room into an immersive experience. It was like a little taste of the vision George Lucas must have experienced when he conceived of his "Star Wars" franchise.

"It's like the 4D Star Tour rides at Disneyland," Patrick said. "Tactile effects."

Then Patrick found a DVD of the first "Lord of the Rings" movie and played a clip. The classical music on the soundtrack was concert-quality. In a scene where Gandalf picks up an old, crumbling book, the sound as the wizard turned crinkly pages was remarkably true to life.

Then, a cave troll attacked the Fellowship of the Ring. The monster's stomping feet, elephant-sized, sounded just that way. The room shook.

"I've seen these movies umpteen times," Patrick said. "But when I watch them in here, there's always something new that I've never experienced before."

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