• SpaceScotsman@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.

    If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they’re shouting, that’s not adding realism, they’re doing bad acting.

    If the sound engineers can’t get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that’s not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they’re bad at mixing.

    If the director can’t keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that’s not artistic choice, they’ve made a bad film.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Been there the hard way. I got Tubular Bells II, and listened to it via headphones (I had no speakers).

    There is one passage where the music ends, and a child speaks. It was hard to understand, so I turned the volume to 11, and heard the end of the sentence like “and nothing was ever heard of him again but the sound of tu-bu-lar bells.” The next sound was the BANG of the tubular bells, making my eardrums meet somewhere in the middle. somewhere…

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Right now TNG. I’m re-watching it with my fiancé. The sound of the ship whooshing past is deafening.

        It’s been a minute since I’ve seen the rest of the shows. So I don’t remember how good their mixing is.

        • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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          8 months ago

          Lol, I was actually thinking of using TNG as a positive example! Patrick Stewart is trained in Shakespearean drama and enunciates as such. Very pleasant to listen to.

          • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            8 months ago

            The actual dialogue is good, I agree. But even the best talented actors in the world can’t undo the mixing of a space ship transmitting sound as if there is air while going faster than light.