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… and turn on the subtitles ‘cause they can’t be bothered to mix for legibility. It’s suicide, that’s what it is. For years the American culture industry has
by PaulHoule 6mo ago
… and turn on the subtitles ‘cause they can’t be bothered to mix for legibility.
It’s suicide, that’s what it is.
For years the American culture industry has the advantage on its home court that people in other countries would watch our movies with subtitles but Americans wouldn’t watch other countries’ movies with subtitles.
Now the sound mixing of American films has gotten so bad that Americans have been trained to watch with the subtitles on and once you do you might as well watch Italian crime dramas or subprime anime on Tubi.
- georgeecollins 6mo agoPerhaps because these movies were mixed for theaters with very specific digital sound setups and now lots of people see them for the first time at home.
- layer8 6mo agoNo, it’s the same issue in theaters.
- PaulHoule 6mo agoTo be fair, the problem of matching to soundtracks to people's real listening environments is not entirely solved. That is, back in the DVD a lot of DVDs had a weak 5.1 mix because it was designed to sound OK if you played it back on a 2-channel system so you wouldn't really use the center channel. Then in the Blu-Ray age they got more aggressive with the 5.1 track at risk that you'd miss the dialog if your settings weren't right. So on top of movies that aren't legible in the theater there is plenty of trouble that comes up in the mixing for home theater.
- IshKebab 6mo agoYeah I've seen them in theatres. Doesn't really help.
- rglynn 6mo agoI have no comment on sound mixing in general, but just to add context here, Chris Nolan intended[0] for the dialogue in some of the scenes to be inaudible over the score. I think this is often difficult for people who treat films as logical instead of experiential. Nonetheless, it is inaccurate to characterise it as poorly mixed, since the goal was for the score to somewhat drown out the dialogue, and the mixing achieves that goal. You can disagree that this is a desirable outcome for the viewer, but art is ultimately subjective. 0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cjtlzp/comment/evg2jsm/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cjtlzp/comment/evg2js...
- IshKebab 6mo agoQuality reference there.