Am I getting old or?...

[PurplePepperEater]

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?

• 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?*

No. I know Bane has a mask but he also had dialogue which it would have been nice to have been able to understand. It's a relatively recent thing with Tom Hardy as well, he speaks perfectly clearly in Rocknrolla.

Whilst we’re talking about diction and enunciation may I also offer you all Ariana Grande

Ok well if we’re going to throw singers into the ring I’m adding SIA!

It’s a standing joke now in our house - SIA does not singi one intelligible word 😡 apart from “hot chocolate” in the Christmas song

The mumbling started 10-15 years back. I t's a known thing. Subtitles are great.

It isn't just films.

I have become like a female version of Victor Meldrew when people leave voice messages on our home phone.

Not only do them mumble mumble mumble, but they gabble as well . People at work do it, I think they think if they gabble it makes them sound intelligent. Um no, sorry, if I can't understand what you're going on about it doesn't make you intelligent, I just stare blankly at you.

Enunciate goddamit!!

I have the subtitles on all the time for this reason. Sometimes it's so bad that the poor person who did the subtitles was forced to write (unintelligible) mid sentence. I wish I was joking...

Mumbling is one reason dh and I like the foreign dramas that are often on BBC 4 on Saturday nights. With subtitles you don't even have to try to hear. Some of them have been very good, too - Salamander and Spiral in particular stand out.
Must invest in a sound bar, though.

I watch everything with subtitles these days. I do have slight hearing problems, but I have found lately that sound effects and music seems to be much louder than dialogue. This way I don't have to keep adjusting the volume, or deafen the neighbours any time there's gunshots or an explosion, or even background music sometimes.

I agree re dark and mumbly. There’s adding moody atmosphere and then there’s making the programme plain unwatchable.

We have a sound bar & surround speakers but it makes jack all difference because they aren’t enunciating in the first place.

Also. Modern TVs have sacrificed sound to improve vision and have flat screen. You have to turn the volume up to hear properly, annoying the neighbours and giving yourself a headache. The answer is a soundbar, more expense. They still mumble tho

Tom Hardy doesn't have to even speak. I don't need to hear him. I am happy just watching his lips move.

Subtitles here, again, for everything!

I'm either cranking the volume to hear the dialogue or muting the tv so that my neighbours don't think a gunfight at the O.K. corral/Battle of the Somme has broken out in my front room. What's with all the loud, booming bass??? I need to hear the actors speaking, not 194 decibels of canons, shrieking, and gunfire. I swear, it's the years of CGI battle scenes on my tv that have caused all the cracks in my plaster.

I agree and I'm 31. DP tells me it's my hearing though

I've cranked the volume up and then turned the subtitles on as my stooopid son narrates whatever game he's playing and my stooopid brain for some reason elects to prioritise whatever HE'S saying, even though it's nonsense and I don't need or want to hear it. So I starting barking "DS, quiet! I can't hear Noel Fitzpatrick over you!"

I have never watched a film with Tom Hardy in. Am I missing out on something...?

The walking Dead is terrible for this (looking at you Norman Reedus). You then it right up and then think you’ve been transported to a war zone when they start firing guns.