Headphones that aren't garbage are pretty much a necessity.
About half of Bane's dialog in TDKR outside of the plane scene is completely inaudible.
When you're trying to relax and watch a movie without disturbing everyone else in the house...
James Davis
Jack Hughes
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Carter Phillips
This happens because they mix it for theaters and then never bother to remix it for home release. All you have to do is go into the audio settings of your media player and fuck with normalization or dynamic range. You want a narrower dynamic range, loud sounds are brought down, low sounds are brought up.
Jack Jenkins
Whoever does sound editing for Nolan's movies ought to get thrown out of a plane.