alt Hacker News… 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.
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georgeecollins • yesterday at 4:01 PM
Perhaps 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.
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I 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.
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