cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1657114/mr-lovenstein-volume

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  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    This is so common and so irritating that it literally makes me not look forward to watching movies, particularly at home in a shared living space. I don’t even watch many movies anymore because it’s annoying watching with subtitles all the time.

    This is what getting old looks like people, take note.

    That thing that mildly annoys you right now? It won’t go away, it will get worse, then your intolerance of thing will lead to avoiding the thing. Next thing you know, someone is asking you “Did you see the new Sooperfoob and Jerry movie? it’s amazing! Best one of the franchise!” and you’re going to be like… 😶

  • SoloCritical@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 month ago

    And this is why I, a genius, watch my content with subtitles. So I can keep the volume at a perpetually low level whilst still understanding what is being said even when it isn’t in a language I speak.

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 month ago

    FYI this is one of the main differences between the Hollywood and German soundtracks.

    Here it’s mixed far better to listen in stereo while in surround cinematic you need to turn the front speaker up, if you have that system. And it doesn’t translate well to stereo.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Hollywood mixes are just awful, have been for decades now. You can go to the theater and have quiet voices and blown-out eardrums from a race scene.

      I have a middle-to-upper-end 5.1 setup and have to fiddle with it like hell to keep the voices audible without ruining the action scenes.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            1 month ago

            I haven’t watched it yet. Kinda want to, I have a low bar for video enjoyment. Maybe I’ll throw it on my phone and wait for a no-network time, but i’ll make sure i have subs for it :)

          • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Scene:

            • Important person walks into a room
            • “Needless exposition about how rich and influential that person is”
            • Another important person walks into a room
            • “More needless exposition about how rich and influential that person is”
            • “That person is rich and influential?”
            • *wry smile*

            Next scene, more of the same

      • Strider@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        Yes basically what I said, but some say it’s good for reasons that elude me. So I try to stay on the technical base to avoid discussion.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 month ago

      Wouldn’t that be a question of studio sound versus scene sound? The original sound is usually recorded with a boom mic, resulting in a wider dynamic range, whereas the German voiceover can be recorded in a studio, without interference and the speakers much closer to the mic.
      The alternative would be to give each actor a lapel mic which would then have to be edited out of the video and would also be infeasible in some situations.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 month ago

    I had such a situation years ago. I was listening to Mike Oldfields “Tubular Bells II” on headphones. For the first time. There is a sequence where the music stops, and a child is telling something. I turned up the volume to hear it, and got the last words “and nothing was ever heard of him again, except for the sound of tu-bu-lar bells”, and then came BANG the promised bell…

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        FYI, I am not the person you replied to.

        The part where the comm it’s from is trying to not be political is, apparently, political. Some people here seem to think that spending every waking moment inside a landscape of political doom is a necessary purity test.