[BC] Re: Loud movies (was: Digital Intgerference)

[Barry Mishkind]

Jim,

You hit the nail on the head with that one!  It is amazing to me how 
much of the dialog in recent movies is "covered" by the "swelling 
sounds" ... and lost to mumblers....

At 12:37 PM 12/21/05, Jim Wood, C.P.E.W. wrote
>With regard to film sound, seems to me it's gone downhill over the 
>years, as experienced both in theater presentations and with DVD 
>rentals.  Oh, sure, I'm getting old(er), but watching any film made 
>before, say, the '70s, every word of dialog is still crystal 
>clear.  Take a contemporary film, and my wife (who is younger!) and 
>I both comment, "what did he say?", sometimes backing up the DVD a 
>couple of times, or even turning on the Closed (Eh, what's that, 
>sonny?) Captioning.  Dialog/music/effects ratios don't seem right, 
>and diction doesn't seem as important as it once was in film making.