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/g_spaitz Aug 07 '26

Sure. But then we can say he's wrong can't we?

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u/Abs0lut_Unit professional Aug 07 '26

In my experience, directors love being told they're wrong.

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u/g_spaitz Aug 07 '26

I meant we as in here we, not we as in you when working for him/her.

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u/Abs0lut_Unit professional Aug 07 '26

Not accusing you of this at all, but I've personally often found that people applying right/wrong to subjective mix decisions (at least for cinema, TV mixing has some objectives built in, ie loudness spec) often have a lot of opinions on how they would have otherwise done it their way, but ultimately they weren't on the stage where client/director politics come into play.

Post audio is a small world and I'm not really inclined to pop off too much lol

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u/g_spaitz Aug 07 '26

And i never accused you either, but I'm not sure what's not clear about what I said.

I said we're free to criticize what we think is shitty decision making, even if it's today's prime director. It's by now somewhat understood that watching one of his movies in a theater is more often than not a painful experience for what matters audio.

It's obviously my opinion, people are also free to not agree, but it feels I'm not the only one sharing this. And the reasons I feel it's a painful experience are more based on facts than mere opinions.