Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
by drcongo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:20PM
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I gave up watching Ozark because I couldn't see a damn thing that was happening, and that has no CGI at all. Sometimes it really is just a (bad) stylistic choice.
Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
by yurishimo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:19PM
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I think it's probably more related to the move to HDR content. Modern movies/tv are shot and edited with HDR in mind. HDR usually has much more granular control over the brightness within a scene, not just that one part can get super bright.
That's great for people with TV's capable of that type of playback, but for everyone else, tough luck unless you have a blacked-out home theatre room to watch all you casual TV in.
I saw a great example of this in a recent LTT video[0] of a cheap "HDR" TV. The shadows all blended together and the highlights just looked like a flat white instead of a very lightly shadowed sparkle.
The actual article content here about the reasons for dialogue getting worse is interesting. I'd have suspected it's mostly about the actors no longer being predominantly stage-trained, but apparently that is part of it but a small part. I don't really notice it personally, though, since my wife is deaf, so ever since marrying her, I've watched everything with closed captioning on.