Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]

Post by mrslave » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

birksherty wrote: post #54

cvuls wrote: post #34

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I'm guessing you're using a stereo setup then, dialogue is usually mixed into the centre channel, downmixing a 5.1 or 7.1 stream to stereo will produce those results. even worse is if you don't downmix to stereo, and all you are hearing is front left and right, which is often just the reverb effect channels for dialogue

I watch using headphones and dialogues are still difficult to hear. Now I use vlc method to make them audible. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-qui...

Post by JKCalhoun » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 1:42 PM UTC

psychlops wrote: post #111

seanhandley wrote: post #82

I worked for a while with a guy who'd worked at the BBC for many years. His reasoning for why movies are more boring was simple: money. A production team is looking to distribute their movie in as many channels as possible, and with the broadest appeal possible. As a result, you see a film made with the broad strokes but lacking in subtlety. If a film might be challenging because of the subject matter, the complexity…

Oddly enough, money is also why exciting movies are made. Not many people make movies, nor art, out of the generosity of their hearts.

Post by seanhandley » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

psychlops wrote: post #111

seanhandley wrote: post #82

I worked for a while with a guy who'd worked at the BBC for many years. His reasoning for why movies are more boring was simple: money. A production team is looking to distribute their movie in as many channels as possible, and with the broadest appeal possible. As a result, you see a film made with the broad strokes but lacking in subtlety. If a film might be challenging because of the subject matter, the complexity…

Oddly enough, money is also why exciting movies are made. Not many people make movies, nor art, out of the generosity of their hearts.

Post by gcthomas » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #117

Pasorrijer wrote: post #90

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A response to your edit, I was on a zoom call with current musical editors / producers and that is 100% part of the problem. Many of today's actors /actresses almost mumble their lines and make it absolute hell for the audio people to pick them up, whereas theatre trained individuals were loud and enunciate the crap out of everything.

They are trying to be authentic. That is what actors are taught these days, to portray "realistic" characters that move and sound as realworld people. The net result is mumbling and tiny little movements that in turn mandate tight closeups and asmr-like microphone placement. Try that on a stage or in any live performance and you will be called wooden. Compare actors like Samuel L Jackson, Percival Ulysses, Jane Lynch…

Post by gcthomas » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #58

BoppreH wrote: post #24

Another enormous gripe I have with modern movies, other than the (lack of) interesting moral lessons from OP, is the sound design. Loud explosions and music, with quiet, mumbled lines[1]. I'm forced to watch every movie with subtitles on, or to miss a good chunk of the dialogue. And I'd go beyond that, and blame the mumbled lines for our lack of interesting quotes. It's a lot harder to have unexpected turns of phrase…

> I'm forced to watch every movie with subtitles The silver lining here may be that people stop treating subtitles as torture and see some non-English titles more often. There are some fun movie cultures out there beyond Hollywood, but I've found the "ugh, I've got to read‽" response common.