Seriously: I've never in my life had such a hard time understanding what characters were saying in a movie. Random background noises were often as loud as the speech.
I kid you not: I actually ended up turning on the subtitles because it was the only way I could follow the film.
We have HD speakers and heard everything fine....and we're from south Georgia. Lol maybe that actually helps with understanding seemingly unintelligible gibberish. It would indeed be lame if the only way for this movie to sound decent is with HD speakers though, cause I really enjoyed it.
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I agree! I thought my center surround speaker was disconnected or something because dialogue was barely audible.
shareI appreciate this thread. Sometimes I fear in my older age that my hearing is starting to go. That thought crossed my mind last night as I watched this movie. I'm glad it wasn't just me!
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Both the story and the acting were fine, but yes this movie was massively let down by the atrocious Sound Editing. One thing that may help you all next time you watch a movie/program with such bad sound editing that it requires you to constantly turn the volume up and down is the AUTO VOLUME (or equivalent 'Automatic Gain Control') feature built into the Audio settings of most modern Flat Screen TVs. If you enable this feature, the Automatic Gain Control circuitry will act to equalize volume levels. Overly weak volume signals are immediately boosted to meet the Lower threshold level and Overly strong signals produce Clipping at the upper Threshold level an immediate flattening out of the signal.
Of course this sound mode is not ideal for the reason that it may not be the exact way in which the director/sound editor intended the sound to be heard, but if a movie/program is virtually unwatchable because of such atrocious sound editing then you may as well use it. Only side effects may be that you might notice an extremely loud signal for a fraction of a second when Loud action scenes such as shouting, gun fire and explosions cause clipping of the signal before it's leveled out at the upper threshold level. Alternatively a scene that is meant to be totally quiet may be accompanied by a slight hum or dull background static noise as the system increases the Gain to boost the weak volume signal.
All in all I would have to say that using AUTO VOLUME made 'Edge of Darkness' watchable for me.
Birdman and Interstellar were far worse. The accents in this film were perfect.
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