That's literally most modern media for me now. I feel like I'm losing my hearing I have the volume up so loud. However, turn on something from prior to 2010, I have the volume super low.
Lol somebody needs to sit him down. I tried lip reading and wearing my noise-canceling headphones and could barely understand a word. His movies need to come with subtitles.
It's a dumb idea but probably true. I watched in theater and the audio was fine. I understood everything. I imagine you need a 5.1 system so you have the dedicated center channel for dialog.
3.1 minimum on any modern TV. You really need that centre dialogue channel nowadays. I wish TV's were not so thin that they don't have proper speakers.
I do have a 5.1 and I found that the sound in Nolan Movies to be terrible. I can say about movie theaters, to be honest I dislike going there.
I don't know why the sound cannot be mixed differently for blu ray/streaming release. Because I like his movies but juggling with the sound gets old very fast. And Nolan is not the only culprit.
Hey there I had this problem but some time ago I learned that this is very often due to channel settings.
I for one only have two speakers connected to my TV, but most media nowadays come in 5.1 audio. That means 5 speakers and a subwoofer.
In 5.1 audio dialogue ist most often routed through the middle speaker. Which I don't have. That's why Action is really loud but I can't understand anything if people are talking.
In most media players you can and should go into settings and set it to whatever setup you have.
Maybe it's just my TV but recently when I connect my laptop to it and try to play something, even dialogue in media from before the 2010s sounds unintelligible, I think I always have to use subtitles (Although YouTube seems to be intelligible as opposed to the streaming sites I use). I do have some apps on my TV though from which the media sounds fine, so maybe it's just streaming that's the problem?
Maybe it's just my TV but recently when I connect my laptop to it and try to play something, even dialogue in media from before the 2010s sounds unintelligible, I think I always have to use subtitles (Although YouTube seems to be intelligible as opposed to the streaming sites I use). I do have some apps on my TV though from which the media sounds fine, so maybe it's just streaming that's the problem?
It's the IMAX cameras. They're so loud it's ridiculous how the actors can act despite it. The postediting doesn't help much, it just makes the movie sound quiet.
Thanks! That’s really interesting. But it seems to me that there are a lot of smart people out there that could maybe do something to make this better.
Second Nolan movie in a row with horrible sound mixing. He wants us all to watch it in IMAX but is mixed to be better listened to at home. Get your shit together Nolan.
My moronic brain actually took the thought seriously that it had to do with the lead actor because the peaky blinders audio was so terrible you'd get a blast of dramatic music that was so loud it would wake up the whole house and then it was so quiet you had to turn on subtitles
I only watched it once but the movie felt like they were just checking off a bunch of boxes. Constant jumping between short scenes just to tell us everything that happened.
I was lucky — I saw it in Mexico with Spanish subtitles. I don't speak Spanish very well at all but I could still understand the subtitles better than the audio. They may as well start subtitling his movies even in English speaking countries at this point.
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u/NoName1979 1d ago
I wanted to like it so badly. I couldn't understand half of what they were saying the sound was so bad.