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.

  • Hammerjack@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Sometimes there are snippets in dialogue I’m not even sure you are supposed to hear them but you can still read them in the subtitles.

    This is the big one for me. If I hear a character mumbling but the subtitles say “[incoherent mumbling]” then I don’t worry about it. But if i hear a character mumbling and the subtitles actually show me what they’re saying, I know the audience was supposed to have understood it.