Re: interesting article on the understanding modern movie dialogue problem

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:36:52 -0800, super70s wrote:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/why-movie-dialogue-is-so-hard-to-understand-these-days-163708191.html
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I didn't take the guy's Twitter poll but I would've been included in that 83%.

It is a misleading question. My answer would be sometimes
I use subtitles, not whether I use them or not.

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I don't think he mentions anything about a setting that comes with some
Blu-Ray or DVD players -- in my old Panasonic Blue-Ray there's a
"Dialog Enhancer" setting that is supposed to pump up the dialogue (in
the center channel of a 4-speaker setup) and I have it turned on but I
still find myself using subtitles often.

"Filmmakers have leaned into the rise of special effects, making explosions, fights, and gunfire significantly louder. This makes
dialogue seem that much quieter."

This is quite dumb, there's nothing "realistic" about the
shots and explosions on screen, engineering is incapable
of recording and reproducing such sounds accurately,
they are always far louder than they possibly can be on screen,
as if anyone would want to hear that in a movie theater.
So the excuse to muffle voices to make it more "realistic"
doesn't wash.

To sum up, the muffled dialog in films is caused by
bad engineering, probably caused by spending too much
money on the project. Over-engineering is caused by
too much money.