Why do movies look like that now?

Flame Between Renders
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Really good deep dive to check out.

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Fun fact - Jared Rosenthal, my colorist buddy quoted in the article, colored Flame’s splash screen a while back: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv-bp-ZP_22/?img_index=1

He also once colored a personal project of mine that had 12 mattes per shot. A true god of day for night: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2YXIR3P36I/?img_index=9

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I think you could rename this thread, “why do movies look and sound like that”, I’m so fed up with people whispering all the time.

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I have a friend from undergrad who is a lead rerecording mixer on Marvel shows and stuff now, and have given her a gentle hard time about modern dialogue levels a few times on fb and hoo boy did I touch a nerve. Idk wtf they’re doing, but the fact that just about every television or streaming box has a “night mode” or “dialogue enhancement mode” should give them pause about the choices they’re making.

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The poor dialog mixing has also caused a large proportion of viewers to watch with subtitles, even when it’s their own language. I do.

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I generally do, too!

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I’ve gotta do more research on the dialogue front. I feel like I watched some old ass movie like Heat and it had the modern dialogue issue, which makes no sense.

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Same. But I also think it is because our attention spans have become like chipmunks with the 5 second Social Media scroll, that reading the subs helps our minds lock in.

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I absolutely hate having subs on, but I often watch with them on because of the dialogue mix. Otherwise I find myself rewinding and "riding’ the volume up and down- because as soon as you get it loud enough to hear all the dialogue there is a scene with an explosion that scares everyone and their cat out of their skin.

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On the flip side, subtitles open up a whole new realm of possibilities, like when they caption a conversation in the next room you didn’t know was happening. it’s like pausing a movie when a newspaper flashes on screen. Thanks to subs, I know what fanfare sounds like, thanks subtitler!

I’ve also notice some broadcasts/streams will bleep or edit an fbomb, but the subs usually stay true to the artist’s vision.