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Was anyone else confused?

posted 16 years ago by pocketnunu
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I rented this movie, and enjoyed it. But the end is a bit confusing, I think. What is the meaning of Danny Huston, his appearance at the end, and him singing the Al Bowlie (sp.?) song? Neve Campbell's character, Abi, does not seem taken in in the same way her colleagues are by his appearance. She asks herself "What the hell is going on?" or words to that effect.

Also I found the actors spoke too softly or whispered, and both me and my daughter missed about a quarter of the dialogue. Maybe it was the sound recording while filming?

[–] electricfrost 16 years ago

I agree that the actors spoke too softly and whispered a whole lot, and I also had to try very hard to (audibly) understand what the actors were saying. I fault this to the sound mixing. Throughout the whole movie it was extremely uneven, with the treble WAAAY too high and in other scenes completely drowned out. If they fixed the audio track, say, on the eventual DVD release, this movie would be perfect. I don't know how they could release this movie in good conscience, with such an obviously botched audio mix. And now that I think of it, the audio seems like it was never mixed in the first place. Fix the audio, please.

[–] beachcat27 16 years ago

I'm watching the DVD right now and I've got my poor t.v. cranked all the way up. I thought it was just me, glad to see it wasn't. There are some relatively obvious ADR lines, so someone did some work on the audio, they just mixed it too quiet. Rookie mistake, probably.

[–] wave_surfer87 16 years ago

for future reference, I discovered if you hit your audio button once on your dvd remote itll change the sound and make it a lot louder... I had my tv all the way up also then though of that... and it worked

[–] refined_cujo-1 15 years ago

Neve's character wasnt as moved as the others because she seemed truly stunned by his appearance, and i think the positive impact she wanted to have on him was wasted away by her breakdown...
the audio wasnt that bad, i could hear everything, must just be certain copies in certain countries. i mite recommend that you press the audio button on your remote to see if their are other options because sometimes there are and the sound quality is better on a different audio setting.

[–] Vspeeds 16 years ago

Yeah, I'm with you pocketnunu, I didn't get it at all. I even watched it twice because I thought I must just be missing something. I don't get the importance of Danny Huston. I don't see what the big deal was.

As far as the volume, I even have extra speakers hooked up to my TV and I had the volume on the TV, extra speakers, AND the dvd all the way up and most of it was still muffled or painfully loud in a couple of spots.

The movie was just "meh".