He made sure to turn the voices down really low with no bass, and all the explosions max volume and will blow your subs.
Christopher Nolan has some of the worst sound mixing in movies, I couldn't hear SHIT in Interstellar
USE YOUR MIDS
I saw Oppenheimer in the theater and felt like an old man:
Me: IS IT ME, OR IS THIS MOVIE TOO LOUD?
My wife: WHAT DID YOU SAY??
My shitty TV makes a god awful buzzing noise when watching it at home.
I can only watch interstellar on my bedroom TV because I've maxed out the audio compression to watch things at low volume, I can actually understand what anyone in that movie is saying.
ooh do you have any tips or guides for doing this?
i have tried doing this with audio effects (pulseeffects, easyeffects) things in linux but i never seem to get a good result
The term to search is "volume equalization", windows has this option built in, not sure about Linux sorry.
many thanks!
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Nolan trying to make more money. Nothing at all.
Nor does it have anything to do with Nolan overseeing a project that had dodgy royalties contracts that have since been banned by the unions.
I'm going to take his advice and pirate this straight to my hardrive where no one can take it away.
Just the way God intended.
Rofl yeah. How many other mainstream movies are on Blu ray? Every single one maybe? This movie will surely end up on a streaming platform too, having Blu ray release does not change that.
Will do! I'm so happy he's coming out and saying this, because it's become ridiculous that you never know where the movie you want to watch is. There's zero guarantee anymore that the thing you love will still be there.
I buy them myself now, and will own them forever. (Plus the quality of a 4k disc is just so much better)
I had forgotten how much worse streaming quality was after being stuck on it for a while.
Popped in an old DVD and was surprised how much better stuff looked. Not to mention BR....
I always knew it, but actually seeing it in front of me made me sad for how much I've missed, and now I can't go back.
audio especially is just so heavily compressed. Once you notice the video compression in the skies and in dark scenes and audio compression missing the "full body"-ness you just can't go back. You can tell where compression clips out the bits it can.
plus it just feels so much better knowing you have the whole movie right there, playing off of something sitting in your den and not some shitty malignant corporation's servers
It's amusing since that audio compression is the reason why my pirated copy of interstellar is actually watchable as opposed to the streaming version which leaves your eardrums bleeding.
Depending on how you watch audio is way better on bluray vs streaming, as well. 5.1 or any good aftermarket receiver + speaker combo will sound much better.
We've gotten to a place where people are paying for the chance that the thing they want is still on the service when they want it. Literally paying to throw the dice.
Let's just apply fucking loot box mechanics to everything in our lives.
The quality of a regular bluray is much better than streaming for the most part! Bitstarved content sucks and I really hope discs don't die out.
That’s why I download all my movies and tv shows. My personal server never removes movies and always streams to my devices without restriction.
I'm glad that we are all saying fuck you to the streaming services. As soon as people started leaving Netflix to form their own streaming services, I knew shit like this was going to happen. There is going to be a fucking market crash I guarantee it.
I was under the impression that every blu ray inserted needs to show a certain encryption key in order to work. At some point if you dont get a firmware update on your player, it will stop playing newer blu rays. (In theory, its entirely within a blu ray player creators power to simply create a new player with certain keys revoked, meaning some or all of your blu rays wont play on new machines, leaving you dependant on old stock. But its highly doubtful this will EVER happen.)
I don't believe DVDs have to worry about any of this. Im probably wrong however. It's been a long time since I thought about any of this.
DVDs suffered from similar issues, but thankfully people figured out how to crack them reliably, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss
Rip it as soon as you get it.
Yup. The only bluray player you can trust to keep working is a Playstation, hah
Did he hire someone to fix his terrible audio engineering for home media as well?
Silly Chris Nolan, only I get to astroturf Lemmy to sell Blu-rays of my movie, Barbie, the better half of Barbenheimer and the better movie to own.
Lemmy is my territory.
Yarr. Can't steal from me, if I do it first.
By "soundscape" does he mean the explosions and random atomic/quantum noises that shattered my eardrums throughout the film? Nah, I'm good on that
This is a well marketed movie. 😔
Care to elaborate? The emoji threw me off and I'm genuinely interested.
My guess is they're referring to the fact that Nolan's statement here is ultimately nothing more than marketing meant to increase sales. I'm sure Nolan will still get paid for it being on streaming services, regardless of how often it's watched, even if all the actors he employed will only get paid per watch on said services.
I'm ok with this. I prefer 4k physical media I can rip into it's raw state and stream via Plex. Looks dope, yo. Best part? I own it. There's no marketing douchebag that flips a killswitch to remove it from the streaming service.
Cool, so we can pay royalties to other crappy companies who benefit from their Blu-Ray Patents.
I agree many streaming services suck, but, the Blu-Ray standard is a much bigger suckfest (especially considering all the people they screwed with newer copy protections and such)
Copy protection is what these people want
Cool, cool... I think I have an old DVD player in a box in the attic somewhere, I guess I'll go look for it specifically for watching Oppenheimer
Hopefully it still works
Blu ray? Is it available on DVD?
Maybe I'll wait for the laserdisc version
You look like a film projector kinda guy.
Puppets maybe...
I holding out for it to be released on wax cylinder
Something something the seven seas
That’s why I pirate it and own the mkv
I'm surprised he didn't mention the 4K UHD disc instead.
Oh shit, they still print discs?!?
Can I get it on gramophone instead?
(e: I’m kidding. Streaming is horrible for artists, I agree.)
Buy overpriced physical media? lol no thanks.
Or…I’ll just get it by my usual means since I’m a grown-ass adult.
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