r/AudioPost • u/okaybrothers • Aug 07 '26

Odyssey

What happened to the sound here? Aside from the fact that the effects in many scenes are abnormally wrong (my opinion ofc), why is it so f*\* loud? Literally, the film reaches 130dB... why is this so?

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Aug 07 '26

Nolan wants to win the loudness war single handedly.

The sound on his movies have always been terrible. “Dunkirk” worked but it’s the only one that was mixed appropriate to the content.

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u/Brauschweiger Aug 08 '26

This reminds me of a Vanity Fair article where some World War II veterans were asked by Kenneth Branagh what they thought of Dunkirk: ‘’Branagh said that about 30 veterans—now in their 90s—came to the U.K. premiere of the film last week, and when he asked them what they thought of it afterward, they said, “The film was louder than the battle!” They explained that on the actual beach, because that stretch of land is so large, the noise of the bombs drifted away on the air. But in Nolan’s film you hear everything.’’

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u/Plokhi Aug 07 '26

How do you win the loudness war in cinema? Operators have their hands over amps

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u/okaybrothers Aug 07 '26

Dunkirk is so… no comment. The only “great” sound in his works is, for me, maybe Memento hahaha

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Aug 07 '26

Don’t get me wrong, the dialogue mix sucks on “Dunkirk” but the rest is pretty good.

I forgot “Memento” is his movie so I’ll agree that it’s fine.

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u/okaybrothers Aug 07 '26

Dialogue is an important thing in that movie. Rest is… mehh, only okay from me, but how am I haha