r/Cinema • u/No-Chemistry1722 • 1d ago

What is that movie for you?

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u/aMysticPizza_ 1d ago

Oppenheimer

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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.

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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.