Re: Just me or Sherlock Holmes good but a mumble-fest?
Alls Quiet
> OK, I'm 49, and I'm sure the years have taken some toll so factor
> that in, but while I quite liked the new Sherlock Holmes movie, it
> seemed to me that a number of important bits of dialogue were mumbled
> and I'm sure I missed some things. Anyone else get that impression?
Wow, just from the thread title, I asked myself if you're my
generation (I'm 53). I don't think the "years have taken [a] toll"; I
think some inner decorum that comes from having been raised in a
cinematically less barbaric age goes into effect, and we're
overwhelmed and/or repulsed.
I've posted here over the years about the sensory onslaught of
SurroundSound, CGI, etc. This movie has made me swear off in-theater
movie-going for the rest of my life. That's how much I hated it. And
the "Angels and Demons"/"Illusionist" mumbled denouement was
definitely mumbled.
moviePig
What's that you say?... Type louder...
I suggest that, once the sound quality of talkies got quite good,
dialogue stayed intelligible for many decades ...indeed, why wouldn't
it? But, increasingly, there's been a lowering of standards... (maybe
towards "verite". I blame Marlon Corleone's stuffed jowls.) All
movies should be previewed by viewers who haven't read the script, at
a non-Dolby screening. Meanwhile, muddy dvd-transfers haven't
helped. (I rarely forgo available closed-captions.) Yeah, older is
definitely deafer ...but do you have any trouble whatsoever with the
average tv series? I thought not.
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Etal
Because the hearing differs so much between individuals and
the changes for one person during her life ...
Once upon a time when i heard of movie-distribution going
from analog (VHS) to digital (DVD) format i was hoping that the
user would be allowed to individually adjust volume for speech,
sound effects and_or at least the music individually from the
first two. While this is something can do in mosts computer-games
i've played, for movies this freedom was not to be had.
I doubt that this higher freedom for the end-users auditory
sense is to be had with the next digital format, Blue-Ray?
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Pjk
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I saw this over Christmas and then a friend of mine saw it a few days
later. When we were talking about it neither mentioned the special
effects of the action, but we both laughed about the small scene where
Watson tells Holmes he, Holmes, is wearing his, Watson's, waiscoat.
Scenes like these and some of the detecting Holmes does, made the film
worthwhile.
Did you recognize the scene where Holmes is plucking at the fiddle
next to a beaker of flies?
Pjk
Etal
> Etal wrote:
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> I saw this over Christmas and then a friend of mine saw it a few days
> later. When we were talking about it neither mentioned the special
> effects of the action, but we both laughed about the small scene where
> Watson tells Holmes he, Holmes, is wearing his, Watson's, waiscoat.
> Scenes like these and some of the detecting Holmes does, made the film
> worthwhile.
>
> Did you recognize the scene where Holmes is plucking at the fiddle
> next to a beaker of flies?
>
"You"? .. as in Me, specifically?
I'm reading this from r.a.m.past-films. It will probably be a few
years before i'll watch it, so no nothing recognized by me. (My
post was about audio; dialog, effects and music in all movies.)