This is a particularly important topic for myself on the spectrum, as I’ve had a lot of difficulties trying to follow what’s going on in the cinema. I’d have subtitles on all the time if that was possible.
“bemoaning directors’ over-reliance on music as ‘pushing emotion’ on audiences”
One of my pet peeves. It’s usually the sign of a poorly made movie if you feel you have to lay on the music because actors performances aren’t enough to convey the emotions of a scene.
Really though the last mentioned issue in the article is the main problem. (Gotta get you to scroll to the end!) The movies are mixed for a theater sound system and most don’t get remixed for television.
You mean you’re not a fan of the cover song that is slowed down to sound ominous that you hear in every got dang trailer?!
Bane beating the snot out of Batman was one of the most gripping scenes of all time. Zero music.
Also No Country for Old Men in its entirety.
Nailed it!
Very much the case of streaming movies, like the brothers one with Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. They’re phoning it in while those working post are trying to make it gel better. I don’t know if I’ve seen a genuinely good movie which went straight onto streaming platforms.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines was good, but it wasn’t produced for streaming.
That’s a brilliant article.
Assuming facts are accurate, and there’s not much missing info, it explains so much about why I’ve consistently hated the sound on streaming services. Even with my full home theater setup instead of just stereo, there’s flaws that stand out compared to dvd or bluray.
Take the opening scene of evil dead. Well, I can’t recall if it’s 1 or 2 that has this particular scene. But it’s when the swing is banging against the cabin. On DVD the sound is balanced roughly right; the banging isn’t out of line with the dialogue, no need to mess with volume. But streaming? Again, I can’t even remember what service it was on, but that banging was absurdly loud compared to the dialogue, and so were the effects. It was a horrible experience to a movie I’ve seen literally hundreds of times over the years.
The new dialogue Enhancer feature on the AppleTV 4K works quite nicely on almost everything.
Is that the one for your dialogue in the room or the viewed media
Media. There’s also like a level 2 called, IIRC, Boost Dialogue, but that one tends to screw with the rest of the audio track, whereas Enhance level has minimal impact (pretty much unnoticeable…MOST of the time. I have had some media where I definitely have turned it off).
I like just using the “reduce loud sounds” setting which indirectly makes dialogue louder compared to very loud scenes.
A picture you can hear.
