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Unintelligible speech is a big flaw of modern movies. Made me enjoy lots of movies less and less

• dsr_ 4y ago
  We 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 ago
    Nolan 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 ago
      He 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 ago
      pro-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.