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Have fun riding the volume button for two hours.


As with almost every film shot pre-1980, the music in this movie is WAY TOO GODDAMN LOUD compared to the dialogue. This results in you having to sit there with the goddamn remote in your hand to constantly turn the volume up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down until you finally just say FUCK IT! and give up on the movie.

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Subtitles are your friend.

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The movie wasn't interesting enough to hold my undivided attention enough to read the entire thing. I had it on in the background whilst I was doing other things.

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Utterly bizarre...almost every movie shot pre 1980?

I think you are in denial...you either have an issue with your hearing, or you need a new TV/sound system.

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Yes. Almost every movie from the '70s and prior have this same issue with blaring music. Sorry you haven't noticed. My TV and sound system are more than fine.

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Then you need to adjust the audio settings. It’s really that simple.

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So I'm to assume you don't encounter this issue with your TV and audio levels whilst watching older films?

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Not at all. I just use the TVs audio settings to balance things out. Many newer TVs (if not all) have settings to do so, some even emulate equalizers.

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No wonder you already had the volume up too loud.

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Lmao! I can totally relate to this. I've experienced this same annoyance with plenty of streamed films as well.

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Lol. It goes from dead silence to Wagnerian finale loud in a nanosecond too. So you have to keep the remote close.

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The music either works or it doesn't. If you've got it, flaunt it. I don't understand why a good musical score needs to hide it's light under a bushel as if a musical score is something to be ashamed of. Is this a Millennial thing, or something?

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No one in the world agrees with you. You're all alone. It's quite pitiful.

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Sure, Jan.

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Are you watching on Blu-ray, Pepetoony?

If so, I've had the same issue, but I have earphones on, so I can hear more.

Blu-rays have always fucked up the sound mix like this, it wasn't so bad at all with DVDs.

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A lot of new mixes mess with the levels.

I recently watched the 4K version of this on iTunes and I had the same problem. The dialogue was relatively quiet then the music or dogs barking were ear-piercing. It’s irritating and I don’t recall the problem on earlier releases.

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This is a really funny post

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