Terrible soundmixing


Just watched this for the second time, with headphones on (so not to wake up the neighbours) - the sound mixing in this is all over the place. I didn't notice it on speakers, but the volume levels of people's speech goes up and down in certain sequences - this could also be to do with bad boom work. I don't know an awful lot about this technical side, but it was extremely noticeable.

By the way, I thought this was a brilliant idea, but patchy. Some great moments - but Reeves and Mortimer doing really bad camp? And Ron Culshaw totally wasted as Blair? And the Chaplain joke wasn't great either (watch Charlie's own "The Great Dictator", which *really* uses this joke and runs with it)

The bits I did enjoy were Hitler on the bus, the palace radio announcer and storm troopers in palace uniform - and the ending on the cliffs... Strangely enough, in real history a lot of English aristocrats, including parts of the royal family, were quite Naziphile before the war - see the Anglo-German fellowship etc

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I haven't noticed any significant issues with the sound mix when watching it on TV, but a showing on TV would've had a fair bit of processing on the audio.

Lots of bits which made me chuckle:
Christian Slater's pronunciation of the word "twat".
The waitress passing on a gun hidden in a sandwich.
The random outburst of "Get your hands off my ass!" as Christian Slater is dragged off by guards.
Winston Churchill being credited as playing "Roy Bubbles".

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