Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by mattnewton on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:42PM (#32883541)

Christopher Nolan is one of the biggest offenders in this regard, often having barely audible dialog drowned out by music or background noise by stylistic choice. I understand the intent is to let it wash over you but I can’t help but struggle to understand and it ends up just making me feel frustrated and taking me out of the film.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by jamesbfb on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:48PM (#32883571)

I would have paid extra for subtitles when I saw Tenet at IMAX. The audio mix made it extremely difficult to follow.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by thelittleone on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:09PM (#32883697)

All I wanted after seeing Tenet was my time back.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by cerved on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:33PM (#32884171)

Tenet is an accidental Christopher Nolan parody

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by ckw on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:26PM (#32883813)

I love Tenet, but it has the worst sound mix I’ve ever heard.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by PcChip on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:57PM (#32884291)

Try playing AC: Valhalla

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by phist_mcgee on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:49AM (#32884768)

And inverted you wants your time forward

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by mackrevinack on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:12PM (#32884078)

watched it in imax the first time and i thought it sounded terrible as well. watching at home with subtitles on the second time around really helped clear up a few things.

it doesn't help that they also have masks on for most of the movie, or they're having to talk over the sound of loud speedboat, or the accents are foreign, either russian or indian

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Sakos on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:24AM (#32885877)

The worst thing is that apparently the audio mix in Tenet was intentional according to Nolan.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by sschueller on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:33AM (#32885926)

In Switzerland every movie has German and French sub-titles. Sadly you can't turn them off in the theater but it's helpful id you can't understand what the actors are mumbling.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by harvey9 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:37AM (#32886654)

Taking up a lot of screen space too?

Reminds me my dad said when he first moved abroad before he learned the local language, everyone would read the subtitles and laugh at the joke and then he couldn't hear what they had just laughed at.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by JimiofEden on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:35PM (#32883880)

Invoking a pretty old video that still makes me smile to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukMXA0SJaM

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by hindsightbias on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:49PM (#32884248)

Nolan is just trolling us, he knows we’ll pay good money for crap we can’t understand or hear.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by lo_zamoyski on Sunday September 18, 2022 @10:22AM (#32887803)

If you can't hear it, you can't criticize it.

"But he said it with such an air of gravity..."

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