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> I have to see the actors. I have to hear them say their lines. There are entire scenes where, if you watch it in the average person's living room, the only t
by benhurmarcel 4y ago
> I have to see the actors. I have to hear them say their lines.
There are entire scenes where, if you watch it in the average person's living room, the only thing you get from the movie are the subtitles (that you set because you can't hear them talking).
- grugagag 4y agoUnintelligible speech is a big flaw of modern movies. Made me enjoy lots of movies less and less
- dsr_ 4y agoWe re-watched The Dark Knight (2008) a few days ago. There's darkness when it's appropriate. There's light to see what Nolan wants you to see. The fights are both well-choreographed and recorded and cut well -- not the flurry of a thousand ultra-tight cuts that waste the talent of everyone involved. But the dialogue is about 9 dB under what it should be, and only subtitling makes any of it understandable except for a few scenes. My sound system is well-calibrated and powerful: it's the movie's fault.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoNolan is such a bad offender the audio in Interstellar was, I am not kidding, painful to my ears. I saw it in a theater and I'll never ever watch it again ever. It...just...wrong on so many levels. Christopher Nolan is to cinematic audio what Chris Gaines is to rock and roll.
- barrysteve 4y agoHe chose it. The happy moments have roughened up speech and the sad moments it's smooth and legible. He also plays with Dr Brandt mishearing Cooper re-entering the spacecraft "I'm sorry / Mann was lying".
- 93po 4y agopro-tip: wear ear plugs to theaters. makes the experience ten times more pleasant for me and eliminates all of the sudden-surprise-audio volume explosions that hurt your ears. it's never impeded my ability to hear dialog in theaters.