Comment by freitasm
12 hours ago
If only the directors didn't make everything so dark and hard to see. Also stopped messing with sound, making it impossible to hear dialogues.
12 hours ago
If only the directors didn't make everything so dark and hard to see. Also stopped messing with sound, making it impossible to hear dialogues.
I'm surprised they didn't mention turning off closed captioning, because understanding the dialog is less important than experiencing the creator's intent.
I haven’t experienced issues understanding dialogue in Stranger Things, for what it’s worth.
It helps that they're mostly shouting explanations at each other.
See the color palettes of any 2015+ blockbuster[1] to validate your belief (save for Wes Anderson, maybe).
1: https://i.redd.it/nyrs8vsil6m41.jpg
Incidentally, that's the reason why I love photography in Nolan's movies: he seems to love scenes with bright light in which you can actually see what's going on.
Most other movies/series instead are so dark that make my mid-range TV look like crap. And no, it's not an HW fault, as 500 nits should be enough to watch a movie.
Mentioned this elsewhere but The Dark Knight Rises is one of the worst dark movie offenders. When someone says dark movie scenes it’s what comes to my mind. That one confusing backwards movie has terrible audio he did on purpose.
Oppenheimer didnt suffer from either of those issues but I’ve only watched it once on a good TV.
Very ironic that it is Nolan who is widely known for consiously making movies with incomprehensible dialogue.
Yeah... At home we have partially solved this problem by using a BT speaker on the table, as we mostly watch movie while we have dinner. Simple and effective.
Netflix shows in particular are ridiculously dark.
Heavily compressed.
If you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING.
Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.
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Which is even worse since darker gradients seem to leave more visible compression artifacts.
I've watched Silo season 2 and it is basically impossible to watch it during the day. Only at night, with brightness cranked up to 100%.
I turned off HDR. Much happier now that I can see what's going on on the screen.
My LG oled will go darker by itself during prolonged dark scenes, its not noticeable (other than that you can't see anything and you're not sure if its correct or not) until you get to a slightly brighter scene, can get it to stop for a bit by opening a menu.
Game of Thrones S8E3.
Could barely tell what was going on, everything was so dark, and black crush killed it completely, making it look blocky and janky.
I watched it again a few years later, on max brightness, sitting in the dark, and I got more of what was going on, but it still looked terrible. One day I'll watch the 'UHD' 4k HDR version and maybe I'll be able to see what it was supposed to look like.
Or all of terminal list. That show is so extremely dark that it might as well just be voices over a screen saver.
Flatscreen TVs have terrible speakers, especially for speech.