hara kiri, often mispronounced hari kari.
Career suicide. For the good of us all.
No, I’m not gonna pull a Joseph Cao, and say you guys should ritualistically kill yourselves with samurai swords to preserve what honor you have left.
But please quit your current professions. Movies have become near unwatchable.
Just because you spend $10 million on sound for a film doesn’t mean it should go from “I can’t hear what the fuck they’re saying at all” to “zomg my house is exploding”.
For example, I watched The Watchmen recently. The sound spikes and troughs absolutely ruined what seemed like an otherwise decent movie.
Can’t we find a happy medium? We should be able to hear dialogue and not have to scramble for the remote to turn down the damn volume.
I get it. You’re happy with the cool sound effects you put together. But don’t ram them down our throats. We should be able to appreciate them at a reasonable level.
Is there someone making you do these horrible things to movies? Is it overzealous producers? If so, please tell us so we know who to blame.
Sincerely,
Me Gusta
Jesus I’m getting old and cranky.
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So true. And what’s the big whoop about surround sound? I spend half the movie turning around to see who’s making all that noise. (Yes, I too have turned into an old crank).
The Producer/Director has final say on the sound mix. Though there is something to be said for dynamic range. I’d settle for soundmixes not being so low in general. We have to put our TV up to maximum to hear anything, and even then it’s easy to overwhelm the soundtrack just by talking (or eating Sun Chips). And this isn’t just our DVD player, it’s every thing that plays DVDs in the house, including the DVD player on my Mac, the XBox 360 and the PS2.
What about the incredibly loud volume in movie theaters?? I can lunge for the remote at home, but at a theater where I’m totally stuck in ear-blasting sound, I find it painful! When you walk out of the theater and your ears still ring, I think something needs to be adjusted! Anybody else find this annoying and uncomfortable?
I saw Armageddon on the theaters. Earplugs time. See, the dialog volume is just fine, so long as you let the explosions be as loud as an actual asteroid exploding in your vicinity.