There is a perfect answer. Don’t watch movies with shitty sound mixing.

I used to mix audio for my garage band’s albums in the 2000s. It’s not that hard to get effective dynamic range without setting the quiet parts to barely audible and the loud parts to red lining the db meter. It’s obnoxious.

If I ever meet the guy who mixed Malignant, I’m going to “accidentally” spill my coffee onto to his mixing station. I couldn’t watch past the first scene. The mix was downright mean. That movie still pisses me off.

But there is. Having an audio range that isn’t ridiculous, that allows you to hear whispers and not get your ear blown out by the louds. Unfortunately many movies don’t do this, and for some reason you would rather compromise on someone else’s comfort than even consider this?