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>The performance style of actors in current TV shows and movies is more naturalistic and less elocutive than it once was, so characters are more likely to speak
by pulvinar 1y ago
>The performance style of actors in current TV shows and movies is more naturalistic and less elocutive than it once was, so characters are more likely to speak softly.
Yeah, I've given up on new movies. If I want naturalistic without a storyline, I can just go outside. I'm not going to turn the volume up to the level required to hear the mumbled whispers, just to have my hearing damaged by the next gunshot or blast of music.
Subtitles aren't a fix -- they're distracting and therefore annoying. A selectable "classic" audio track would be the fix.
- monetus 1y agoIt is bad audio processing; "too good" rather, as if the silver screen was the only place anyone watched movies.
- grues-dinner 1y agoIt's not even that, I couldn't hear large parts of Oppenheimer, having paid a hefty premium for a cinema with a good sound system.
- milesrout 1y agoI think they mix movies differently than they used to, maybe because people all seem to have soundbars today?
- watwut 1y agoIt is absurd to call it naturalistic. If people can understand others in real world situations, but struggle to follow them in a movie, it was not naturalistic.
- stefs 1y agobut that's the unrealistic part. in the real world people don't understand each other all the time, but all those "sorry, what did you say?"s would be annoying on screen (like so many other things that are skipped in movies). actors don't talk naturally at all, it just seems to us that way because we're used to them talking like that on screen.