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In my experience, this is intentional. You're watching a thing with full dynamic range sound. Honestly, the intention is for you to have a decent speaker system and to turn it up so you can hear the dialog comfortably. The loud parts will be loud and that is the intent. Why would they make the loud parts quiet? An explosion isn't supposed to be quiet. They shouldn't make it quiet for the sake of you listening to it through your TV's built in speakers at 2 in the morning while the rest of the house is asleep. If you need the dynamic range to be compressed for your purposes you can do that yourself. Many devices have this option these days. My Roku has "leveling" and "night" modes which compress the dynamic range so there's not such a difference between the quiet parts and the loud parts.
A lot of us live in apartments and choose not to be obnoxious assholes to our neighbors. Wheres the sound mix for us?
If you have to keep changing the volume throughout the movie, the audio engineer did a bad job, period.
Dude you can just turn on the "night" mode on whatever device you're using and completely solve your problem. You don't blame the sun for being too bright, you just put on sun glasses.
Or, and I know this sounds crazy, the highly paid professionals at the top of their field can do their job properly for the majority of their consumers.
Request the stereo stream in your streaming device's audio options. Your tv/headphones are downmixing a surround stream, and doing a shit job of it. The "highly paid professionals" have made a separate stereo mix just for this purpose.
/one of the "highly paid professionals"
And ruin the experience for those with good equipment?
Should music be mixed in mono so quality is the same for those who listen to it on a base cellphone and those who listen to it on 1k$ speakers?
People will speakers for $1000 are suckers anyways. Do yes.
That explosion isn't real, it's not actually filmed at night, actors didn't really get shot, isn't filmed in real time.
If you have to start editing the movie yourself, to make it watchable, some story teller isn't doing their job. I guess we're at the Ikea point of 'movies', some assembly required.
Not all horror movies are mixed for a hundred odd channels, right? Yet even horror movies have whispered dialogues
I think we can all agree that a lot of tension stems from dialogues