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Am I getting old or?...

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PurplePepperEater · 17/02/2019 22:05

Is everyone in films constantly fucking mumbling these days?!

DP is making me watch some shit with Tom Hardy in it and we’ve got the volume up 3x louder than normal yet they’re still barely audible

Mumble mumble mumble
Gruff breathy voices
Mumble mumble mumble

It’s pissing me right off
It’s a good job he’s pretty and I can appreciate it without hearing what he’s saying but still!

Is it just me?

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ILoveMaxiBondi · 17/02/2019 22:25

It’s called the warrior, some boxing shite

Shock

It’s only the best film to ever exist! Makes me cry every time I watch it. It’s MMA not boxing Wink (like you care!) Grin

LaurieFairyCake · 17/02/2019 22:25

ENUNCIATE YOU FUCKERS

We have subtitles on if they're available (I'm not yet 50) HmmHmmHmm

I love True Detective but have no real clue what's going on

PickAChew · 17/02/2019 22:25

I need subtitles. I need them for dh, as well.

Fucking tinnitus.

Skirmisher · 17/02/2019 22:26

Mumbling is very in vogue with the thesps.

I say bring back Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter with her clipped and crisp enunciation.

Drogosnextwife · 17/02/2019 22:27

At least we can turn the tv up, I can't turn my kids up, they mumble every bloody thing and I'll their eyes when I say o can't hear them. I'm only 29 and I've turned into my mother, I used to roll my eyes at her 😫

Sweepingcalamity · 17/02/2019 22:28

It's not just you op. I'm a grumpy old cow nowadays but my hearing is A1. I spend my evenings shouting "annunciate" and "diction" at the telly Grin.

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 17/02/2019 22:29

Tom Hardy as Bane in Batman was completely unintelligible

You mean...when he wears a mask for the entire film?! Are you sure you don’t mean Mad Max?

YANBU though OP.

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PurplePepperEater · 17/02/2019 22:31

ILoveMaxiBondi see maybe I’d know that if they stopped fucking mumbling!! Grin

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Sweepingcalamity · 17/02/2019 22:31

sorry I can't spell, meant enunciate

Aridane · 17/02/2019 22:34

Hmm - I don't know about the mumbling but fuck a duck what about stuff shot in deep deep gloom (when it's not nighttime) so you can't see anything

Namechangedbecauseiwantto · 17/02/2019 22:35

Yanbu. It's drives me mad too, I too turn it right up, then get deafened by sudden sound effects.

Sweepingcalamity · 17/02/2019 22:36

Drogoswife oh gosh yes my teen mumbles all the time. Drives me nuts! She and her friends seem to swallow half their words. I've even started shouting at Jenny Murray on Women's Hour because she does this wierd thing where she swallows the ends of her sentences. Infuriating. Must get out more.

FrozenMargarita17 · 17/02/2019 22:36

No you're right. I've been watching true detective and for the life of me I cannot fucking hear what they're saying and it's doing my head in.

PixieDust20 · 17/02/2019 22:37

Tom Hardy 🤤🤣

SpoonBlender · 17/02/2019 22:38

For everyone complaining about TV mumbles, there might be a technological fix. Go to your TV's settings, find Audio, and there might be some "clearer voice" options to try.

Or it might be set to "surround sound" mode when you don't have a surround system, in which case all the central audio is going to a speaker that doesn't exist. Had that once.

For actual people mumbling, just breezily tell them what you assume they said and run with that. They'll either speak up or you'll get your way, win-win.

StoneofDestiny · 17/02/2019 22:40

I agree - but adverts blast out sound between programs!

notahiker · 17/02/2019 22:40

I often have subtitles on 😳

RelaisBlu · 17/02/2019 22:41

In "The Trip" Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon take the piss out of Tom Hardy & Christian Bale mumbling - it's really funny

Foxyloxy1plus1 · 17/02/2019 22:41

Not only do they mumble, the lighting is so bad because of the obsession with ‘noir’ that you can’t SEE what’s happening either.

Linzbe · 17/02/2019 22:43

It's not just films! The Walking Dead is like this all the time now. It's sooooo annoying!!

VanGoghsDog · 17/02/2019 22:43

Get a sound bar, really does help.

I still suffer with this a bit though.

RelaisBlu · 17/02/2019 22:44

However I didn't care how much Tom Hardy mumbled in "Taboo" - I was completely mesmerised. When I did understand the occasional line he was saying something sinister like "I have participated in darkness you cannot conceive". I was utterly enthralled and I'm still waiting for a 2nd series

coco2891 · 17/02/2019 22:45

Warrior is a great film ! 😮 I loved the story !

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 17/02/2019 22:45

I used to think it was me, but in that RL crime drama around Christmas time (with Martin Clunes) I found I could hear every single word, and not just from MC, who is a first rate actor.
Ditto old films and box sets.

It's fashionable 'realistic' dialogue, I.e.mumbling and/or gabbling that's IMO to blame.
And presumably actors are no longer told that it's not much use learning all their lines if the audience isn't going to be able to hear them.
The Beeb (I think) was heavily slated a few years ago for so much inaudible dialogue in a prime time drama, though I forget which.

DippyAvocado · 17/02/2019 22:47

The Beeb (I think) was heavily slated a few years ago for so much inaudible dialogue in a prime time drama, though I forget which.

I think it was Jamaica Inn.

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