I use Lightwave. If you are talking movies then how does Titanic sound? Lightwave. Like SciFi. Startrek III (gobs of CG)...Lightwave again. It's the render engine. Maya uses either renderman or yup... Lightwave. The Maya render engine sucks. 3D Max uses their own terrible renderer or MetalRay a 3rd party render engine. And guess what you get ONE license to render. Say you find you have a small network in your home Lightwave allows you to network render. Unlimited Nodes. If you want to design for Games go with Max by all means but if you want to do serious work for the big screen look to Lightwave.