loud noises / quiet dialogue

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do think it kinda sucks that they don’t remix the sound for home cinema. some players have a quiet mode though which helps.

Yes! The Nolan films are especially bad offenders for this. Some of the dynamics are just bizarre.

You have to sit with the remote in your hand constantly hunting for either what sounds like hushed whispered dialogue or bass trying to rattle the wall hangings.

So much this

characters talking

turn volume up so I can hear it

Explosion!

the entire street’s windows get blown out

When characters agree to meet up for a date or whatever “tomorrow night” over the phone - and then just hang up.

Where are you going to meet? And at what time?

When top secret files are in a ‘Black Ops’ folder on the computer like in the new Jason Bourne.

Needing a wee

Not locking cars is actually a real thing in the US, outside of major conurbations in any case.

Good film that

no it is not

People answering the door really quickly as though they standing there waiting for the bell to ring.

Poorly formatted subtitles. White subtitles on, let’s say, a desert scene so you can’t read anything. Would it really have been so difficult to tint them for a couple of minutes?

Personally, I think all subtitles should be done in a similar style to the Daywatch/Nightwatch films…

cups of coffee and mugs that obviously have nothing ni them, because they lack obvious weight or they are moving them and they would spill. tv shows are terrible for this.

obvious scenes at dinner tables where no one actually eats anything - the dinning room scenes in big bang theory are very guilty of this.

when someones phone rings with a ringtone it doesnt hve, or that it rings and it’s obvious they’ve not actually answered it.

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First few minutes of a film or a play, my mind keeps wondering and I try to force myself to pay attention because I’m pretty sure I’m missing key stuff.

people knocking on the door / ringing the bell impatiently half a second after they first knocked/rang

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“Pint of non specific beer please.”

**pays exact amount of money, has a sip **

“Right, I’m off…bye!”

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Boobs.

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My girlfriend always checks her phone several times during a show/film. It’s annoying enough usually but absolutely infuriates me when it’s a subtitled film. She always insists that she’s totally following the film too

If it’s not in a cinema then literally everything. That’s why I’ve barely watched any movies, I will stick one on and 9 times out of ten I’ll be distracted by a pack of ibuprofen I forgot to put back in a draw and from then on it’s game over man.

Any scene where a character is playing a video game with the wrong controller for that console.