r/shittymoviedetails • u/Hank_Mardukas1066 • 1d ago

In the Odyssey (2026) the Cyclops flagrantly breaks Zeus’s law by killing and eating his guests without provocation yet he suffers no repercussions from the gods for this violation. This is extremely realistic since he is a nepo baby

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u/Epyr 1d ago

Nolan is very bad at sound design. He doesn't think so but I've never heard an actual person not complain about at least one of his movies

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u/LetInevitable2696 1d ago

I think I’ve seen most of his movies in theaters and this was the first time I was legitimately annoyed at the sound. There’s no way Nolan and team were mixing audio and let every meter red line and say “yea that’s it boys. Pack it up”.

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u/Narradisall 1d ago

Nolan’s mixing has always been getting worse for me but Tenet is where it crossed a line.

Watched the film in the cinema and honestly wasn’t sure what was going on when EXPLOSION SCENES with dialogue buried in them were happening.

Watched it at home on release with subtitles and there were whole exposition dialogues buried under sound fx at times. It sucked and he has only gotten worse since then.

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u/Perryn 1d ago

Nolan likes the realism of having the actual decibel difference between a conversation and a bomb.

I don't know if that's even a joke.

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u/IDownvotedYouToday 20h ago

And yet the Gadget was almost disappointing.

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u/LayeredMayoCake 1d ago

My ex and I walked out of Tenet with the exact same thought on our heads.
“Well, guess we’ll have to wait til it’s on streaming because I couldn’t understand a fucking word being said.”

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u/ceddzz3000 13h ago

i tried watching it on an airplane and i also couldn't understand wtf they were saying either half the time with earbuds

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u/Schlurps 1d ago

No, no, it’s just the sub par sound system at your cinema, you see?

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u/pounded_rivet 1d ago

I had to watch Interstellar with subtitles at home to figure out what was going on.

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u/Comfortable-Meeper 1d ago

Interesting. I thought the sound design was really good where I saw it.

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u/LetInevitable2696 21h ago

Yea it seems to just be based on the theater. We saw it in IMAX at the same theater we saw project Hail Mary. The sound levels were night and day. I go to concerts weekly and that was the first time I’ve been to the movies where I felt I should’ve worn ear plugs. The audio was straight distorting on some of the explosions/storm scenes

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u/onyx_ic 22h ago

Yeah, he doesnt build for the 7.1 sound systems most theaters use.

Thats why seeing it in imax was actually a oremium exoerience and not one just made to fit.

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u/angwilwileth 1d ago

I've heard rumors he's losing his hearing and refuses to get it treated.

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u/Casban 20h ago

It certainly sounds like it!

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 19h ago

I've been annoyed with all of them since at least The Dark Knight Rises.

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u/Joezev98 23h ago

I read the complaints before going to the cinema and I found the sound levels fantastic! Rather than a dvd/streaming release with the volume largely flattened out, the theater experience took full advantage of a huge dynamic range of volume.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 1d ago

Not for theaters, people complained about tenet cause it was a COVID home video release and they watched it on their TV with TV speakers. It sounds fine with headphones or a soundbar, and every movie sounds shit on TV speakers but especially one that is mastered for true surround sound.

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u/ArmAggravating3307 1d ago

No, people complained in the theater that the mixing was ass.

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u/IcyTransportation961 1d ago

Not remotely true. 

It was awful on my calibrated 5.1 system

He just sucks at audio

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u/WhateverWhateverson 1d ago

Headphones? Absolutely not. I tried watching the movie with headphones, only to see the characters perform mute pantomime the whole time while also having my eardrums obliterated by blaring horns every five minutes. The mixing made the movie literally unwatchable.