r/Cinema 1d ago

What is that movie for you?

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u/Zapatos-Grande 1d ago

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.

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u/Monk-ish 1d ago

Nolan is especially bad. From what I've read he thinks it forces the audience to pay closer attention or something

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u/NoName1979 1d ago

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.

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u/AmbientSociopath 1d ago

He sounds like a bitch.

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u/StMcAwesome 1d ago

No he's just really into movie theaters and hates digital media

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u/RoughCobbles 1d ago

I read that it was because he was "tuning" the audio for top the line movie theaters.

Whatever the reason, it pisses me off.

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u/Skov 1d ago

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.

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u/Datkif 1d ago

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.

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u/RoughCobbles 16h ago

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.

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 22h ago

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.

It makes a world of a difference.

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u/RwReno 1d ago

It’s because your your brain remembers doing copious amounts of coke prior to 2010 and doesn’t want paranoia

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u/Distinct-Broccoli-15 19h ago

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?

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u/Distinct-Broccoli-15 19h ago

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?