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Another movie ruined by mumbling


Depth of characteroisation or plot are ruined by the desire to mumble the lines...
As a native english speaker I find it difficult to decipher the language of mumble is there somewhere to take lessons?

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I kept having to crank up the volume only to be nearly deafened by the gunfire!

Not sure if it was bad audio or the fact that, yes, so much of the dialog is mumbled and muttered.

Certainly not th best western I've seen and felt more like a nice idea poorly executed (editing was especially poor, IMO) and featuring an actor I find very hard to like in anything (Joel), but I would have had a lot more time for it had I not kept having to rewind missed dialog.

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I had that problem exactly. And it was one of thise movies where a character would be mumbling away so you crank up the volume only for an off-screen bad guy to shoot them completely out of the blue so you end up almost jumping out of your seat and waking everyone in your house up: "mumble, mumble...BOOOM!".

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The mumbling in modern Hollywood movies have reached epic levels of horrible. It has got to stop.

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Definitely! I had to turn on the subtitles because I couldn't understand half of what they were saying, so of course I also get to read about every single sound effect or noise they make, which gets really fu<king annoying; is it so important to be informed when someone exhales sharply? Often the words show up before the sound, like when it's quiet and I see (gunshot) on the bottom of the screen and THEN there's a gunshot.

In conclusion: subtitle tracks should be dialogue only. Or maybe actors should stop fu<king mumbling.


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