These movies these days are annoying. Can barely hear the conversations, volume goes up, but when they try to scare you, gets so obnoxiously loud I need to lower volume back down. Repeat about 20 more times.
shareHaha I just got done watching this movie, and I literally had the remote in my hand the entire time and probably readjusted the volume about 30 times.
Welcome to Fright Night....for real.
This is probably due to the center channel audio, normally reserved for dialogue being mixed with the left and and right channel audio which is normally reserved for secondary sounds, music and sound effects. Most TV's only have 2 channels so everything gets combined together. If you bought a 3.1 channel soundbar most would probably allow you ajust the audio level of each channel separately and balance out all the channels so the dialogue and secondary sounds would be a similar levels at all times. And soundbars unlike high end 7.1 channel systems are easier to set up and would not break the bank.
shareIt doesn't bother me because I like my movies loud. But if you have to worry about other people or something I could see it being a problem. I don't think it's the loudness, but the low dialogue. Watched Oculus last night while my g/f was sleeping and even though it's not a loud jump scare movie, I needed the volume really loud to hear the almost whispered talking. But again, the loudness doesn't bother me (I loved the loud violins in the Insidious movies).
Edit: I also meant to mention that I didn't find the Insidious movies dialogue to be really low either. Never had any trouble hearing anything, regardless of volume.
"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."
Agreed. It's extremely annoying.
shareYes! This works fine on theathers, and even sometimes with "home-theather", if you don't have to worry about other people and just relax and enjoy the movie.
But I watched it on HBO, on a regular "LCD" TV, and it was annoying have to suddenly press the low volume button... they should fix the audio for TV broadcast... lucky me I watch with subtitles, english is not my native language, so if I lost something because of that weird way of audio-editing, at least I can read it. But it's annoying anyway.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.
Except for 'theather' (a typo rather than an actual language fault, I believe) your English is indistinguishable from that of fully literate native speakers. In fact many of the native speakers on the Net make gross grammatical errors their fifth-grade teachers should have corrected. (Whereas you even get the "its/its" distinction which so many of our presumably educated posters miss.) Congratulations :-)
shareThis wasn't such a big problem with this movie as much as it was with the first one. But yes, when the characters were speaking to each other it sounded almost like a whisper. Then there would be a loud jump scare or the music would be as loud as a black metal concert. It wouldn't be a problem if I was alone in the house, but I knew my family would complain if I had the TV too loud. This isn't just a problem with Insidious either. It's the same with almost all newer horror films which are filled with loud jump scares. That's the only complaint I had about the film. Other than that, it was great.
Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!
This! ^
shareAll of this. Drives me crazy. And with this movie and the first one I had another problem. Too dark. Some scenes I could hardly see what was going on. I had to come to the boards to make sure I didn't miss anything in the last scene, when Elise saw something. I have a decent TV, too, so I'm pretty sure it's not that.
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