Director says, “audiences looking for something new”, proceeds to release 3,000 year old story.
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True for me, but I'd also like a movie where I can hear the dialogue at home. Nolan doesn't appear to be capable of that.
I wonder if The Oddyssey will have the usual expositional dialogue couched in vagueness, characteristic of so many of Nolans existing films.
That's related to not remixing the audio from the cinema release where the audio mix is targeting a dozen 15,000 watt speakers the size of a bus around a massive theater. The dialogue is almost always coming just from the front center channel, which is often the weak link in most home systems, overpowered by even the other front channels.
Not sure how many directors are involved with those decisions once it gets to the home release level, I would bet a very small percentage though. Especially directors that have been very vocal about the experience of the theater release being their focus, like Nolan.
It's more likely the studios are just doing the bare minimum to throw it on a Blu-ray with some extras, maybe a commentary track.
On a related note, switching your audio system to a night mode usually fixes this issue because it compresses everything, bringing the highs from things like explosions down and the low dialogue up. Switching out of fancier audio options to something like stereo also usually fixes this, again because it's remixing everything to come from just a couple speakers instead of the specific ones the surround mix wants. Not ideal obviously, but that's what the studio decided would be the home release.
You cant go to movies for dialogue, you need to go to the talkies.
This might be as simple as changing the audio from 5.1 to stereo depending on your setup.
You could say this at any point the last 80 years
I think this is true when you're bringing a new movie/franchise to the table, but the studios definitely play safe with most known IPs or sequels.
For example, Super mario 2, Michael Jackson's movie and toy story 5 made a bunch of money, the new spiderman will make a lot of money too, it doesn't even have to be a good movie.
I'm not saying that I like this trend or that the movies I mentioned are/will be bad, I'm just trying to present another point of view.
1000% correct.
Accept for the mountain of data to the contrary.
Boy I wish it were true.
Remember that he is a fan of Fast & Furious.
I can enjoy most movies because I like movies. Fast & Furious didn't kill my parents or anything.
He is a fan of the Fast & Furious franchise.
That's fine isn't it?
Yes but I'm still mad about steel armor in the bronze age period drama
Idc what "Homer" wrote
So is he going to make yet another war movie, or something that makes us wonder? Or has he run out of ideas?
When does J.J. Abrams’s option for 君の名は。 expire? He’s sat on that for a decade now. There’s rumoured to be a script set in America and it doesn’t sound terrible. Time travel stuff, right up his alley.