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by psychphysic
1173 days ago
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You make a good point. I found Tennet to be easy to hear but I know there were meme reviews about it being too quiet. So I looked one up https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/03/tenet-dialogue-... Interestingly in the case of Tenet the claim is that cinemas intentionally were playing the movie too quiet. It brings up the usual issues of audio mixing and cinema and home is vastly different. But puts Tenet down to cinemas turning it down to avoid loud explosions. So is this a case of cinemas turning down well mixed movies because movies are coming out too loud? But really this is just the same problem over again. Sound engineer mixes audio intending for a high end cinema. Some cinemas plays it poorly, people watching at home have no chance to play it properly... |
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The sound engineer interviews in that article are interesting though, and they seem to be blaming Nolan and the mixing as well.
I also get wanting to turn them down. I've been in theaters so loud that my ears were ringing after the movie, or were actively hurting during certain scenes. The Dark Knight was one of those. It could also just be poor settings at the local cinema in that case as well though.
Given the vast majority of movies are understandable, I just wish Nolan would mix with that goal in mind given I would actually enjoy his movies most of the time if it just weren't for the muffled speech and sound.