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So it's not only me then. Fair enough, English isn't my first language but I have been studying it since I was very little, and usually in the real world I tend

So it's not only me then. Fair enough, English isn't my first language but I have been studying it since I was very little, and usually in the real world I tend to have close to zero issues at understanding speech, be it in first person, YouTube videos, talk shows, radio or animated shows. I always watch BBC documentaries or clips from the previous night late shows (such as Colbert's or Kimmel's), often while cooking or doing chores, and I can follow basically the entire thing without having to go back, even if I'm distracted or if there's some environmental noise. I can't say that it's the same with films, though. They are often hard to follow for me without subtitles, I suspect due to IMHO just how terribly they are mixed. Sound effects and music are usually boosted up to outrageous levels, which cause the dialogue to become muffled or close to inaudible. It just sucks and it's not a good experience at all.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> not only me then I wonder if this explains part of TV's surging popularity relative to film. I also find modern movies frustrating to watch, in part because I can't follow the dialogue. (I assumed it was a hearing thing.)
- qalmakka 5y ago
  I think that one reason is often that a film is way longer than a single TV series episode, so it requires a bigger "commitment". I can potentially watch 3 episodes of different TV series in a single evening or either 3 episodes of the same series, while I can only watch a single movie due to its length. Also, often TV series have more time to properly introduce and develop storylines, while films have to either simplify the plot or be unbearably long in order for the format to be feasible. This makes them often harder to follow or less interesting, for instance Game of Thrones would have been probably turned into utter rubbish if it was made into a film instead of (lots of) episodes - not that it ended that well anyway, though.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> not only me then I wonder if this explains part of TV's surging popularity relative to film. I also find modern movies frustrating to watch, in part because I can't follow the dialogue. (I assumed it was a hearing thing.)

qalmakka 5y ago
I think that one reason is often that a film is way longer than a single TV series episode, so it requires a bigger "commitment". I can potentially watch 3 episodes of different TV series in a single evening or either 3 episodes of the same series, while I can only watch a single movie due to its length. Also, often TV series have more time to properly introduce and develop storylines, while films have to either simplify the plot or be unbearably long in order for the format to be feasible. This makes them often harder to follow or less interesting, for instance Game of Thrones would have been probably turned into utter rubbish if it was made into a film instead of (lots of) episodes - not that it ended that well anyway, though.