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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by iamacyborg on Sunday September 18, 2022 @03:18AM (#32885252)
Dune sounds great on my 2.0 system at home (low mid-range receiver and ~$200 yamaha floorstanders). Sicario too, from the same director, I generally think he does a fantastic job with audio mixes.

Strange that article doesn’t talk about the tripod noise from the ‘05 War of the Worlds.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY099ihULs

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by boltzmann-brain on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:23AM (#32886196)
The '05 tripod noises are meant to sound like V1 bomb scare-sounds, which is originally made to sound like mythical Horns of Jericho:

https://www.factmag.com/2016/10/09/sound-fear-room40-boss-la...

Listen to the V1 bomb sound in the clip on that page - there's no surprise they're being referred to in following works of fiction.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Gravityloss on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:37PM (#32905089)
V1 sound comes from the pulse jet engine that runs with a "batch mode" cycle, ie there's a valve at the front that opens and closes at something like 30 Hz.

The Stuka had the scare sound siren and it had a much higher pitch.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by iamacyborg on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:11AM (#32886881)
Huh, that’s neat. You can definitely see the influence of that sound then following on into Inception which seemed to really popularise it.
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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by boltzmann-brain on Sunday September 18, 2022 @09:26AM (#32887350)
It's always been around. In fact it's been very popular in games like the Modern Warfare series, which have major popular appeal.
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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by iamacyborg on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:08PM (#32889831)
Those were definitely not a big deal (compared to now) and were a very different game back in ‘05
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