I was recently watching the Sixth Sense, which prompted me to wonder if I’m the only one that feels like some movies feel truly impossible to follow everything in the story without captions. For this movie specifically, Haley Joel Osment’s character was difficult to hear in his particular speech patterns and hushed voice.
I know Tenet is infamously not-great with it’s sound design that this could be another example.
What are some of yours? Tell me I’m not the only one.
Any. I watch everything with subtitles, one, because it gives my dopamine-deprived brain more to latch onto, and two, my husband and I belong to those horrible people who’ll talk over the movie and would miss half the dialogue if it weren’t for subtitles.
But apart from my personal aberrances, apparently it’s becoming more common for people to rely on subtitles because sound editing in general has become worse recently (though I wouldn’t know why or what exactly is different now). So you’re definitely not the only one.