• clove@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    Great. Now if he’d invest in some sound techs, microphones, or ADR studio time, he’d be making films that might interest me…

    I can understand less than half the dialog in his works, which is pretty frustrating. If I remember correctly he’s actually gone on record that this is intentional, too.

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      Yeah he said some shit like, “I tuned my movies for a decent cinema setup.”

      Most cinemas do not have a decent audio setup.

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        Haha, yeah! Most home theaters don’t have a decent set-up, either. (I sure as heck can’t afford that hardware if I can’t afford theater tix…) When even headphones don’t help me understand the dialog, then something is really wrong in their process. :b

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      Yes, I don’t see how someone would intentionally want to muddy up their mixes so bad. I feel like it’s gotten gradually worse over time too.

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      I LOVE Christopher Nolan because of his artistry and him putting out original movies and all that. Seriously though, me not being able to understand the dialog in his films is so weird. I think people say it’s tuned for certain cinemas and I’m watching it in the wrong ones? I don’t know about that but it makes for a shitty experience for someone that does still go to the cinema.

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      His ADR is horrible. Take Bane in the Dark Knight Rises. He ADRd the voice because of back lash, but he put it front and center on the mix, with no locations at all. It just sounds like a loud voice over, when it should be mixed in with all the other voices. It doesn’t matter if Bane is in front of the camera, to the side, off screen, or a mile away - his voice is always full front no matter what.

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        Haha. I had access to subtitles when I watched Dark Knight, so it wasn’t as awful an experience… For Inception, Tenet, and Interstellar I just had no idea what was even happening, at all. (Bounced off Inception in the first few minutes because I just didn’t GAF.) My experiences have been so frustrating I vowed not to watch his stuff until he improved his craft.

        Like, I get that he’s not interested in anyone else’s opinion about his art. That’s cool, he should be doing his own thing! But he’s making a lot of inaccessible shovelware crap that’s gonna be on sale in discount bins in only years, and really truly doesn’t care. Bleh!

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          This i just don’t get. I understand everything in all his movies except certain parts of Tenet, which deliberately lowered behind the music.

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            Same. I had no problem at the cinema and at home. I don’t believe I have better hearing than others, or maybe I do and don’t know it?

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            I don’t know what to tell you. I’m glad your experience was better than mine and you enjoyed them!

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              For sure, i wasn’t knocking you or anything. Your experience was definitely the same as most. I only wished more people had better experiences.