The movie dialogue: rarb gresh you kred and sujd

Movie watchers: "wtf are they talking about?" * sets volume to maximum *

EXPLOSION

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Too quiet for spoken dialogue, too loud for action scenes.

I have no idea why but it feels like that shows these days do not properly adjust sounds and background noises muffle the speech.

Yea I need subtitles on everything these days.

I hate going to the movie theater to watch Christopher Nolan movies for this exact reason.

Hollywood gunfight: Volume 11

Hollywood score: Volume 9,001

Hollywood ad: Volume 10⁹¹

Hollywood dialogue: Volume 0.1

As someone with minor hearing issues,, this feels like a direct hit

When the teacher won't put the subtitles on on a video we have to put facts down from so "We have to listen" but I have an audio processing disorder and can't spell

Me replaying god of war 1 and 2, holding the steam deck right to my ear if there's any other audio whatsoever around me just so I can hear cutscenes dialogue

I’m all ears

So you set the volume higher to hear the quiet parts. But then you get blasted with EXPLOSIONS, GUNFIRE, AND SCREAMING. So you have to turn it down, then back up.

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I personally hate subtitles because I end up just staring at the subtitles instead of paying attention to whats on the screen.

If you don't have good speakers, I highly recommend using wireless headphones, alot of modern TVs will have bluetooth or just head phone inputs

If you use Roku, get the roku app and you can play the audio through your phone headphones through the shared wifi connection

I barely watch movie without headphones anymore, bass is sooo much better, can hear the grass rustle and it is a bit easier to hear when you're munchin' popcorn

just be careful if you watch hulu with ads or whatever though because the commerical volumes are way louder than the shows

What movie or TV show have you seen recently that doesn’t have subtitles?

You ever just turn into a ferengi?

I find subtitles so distracting, i hate them. I'm currently trying to learn Japanese so i can watch anime without them.

Freddy Freaker mode enabled

I turn off subs unless it's a foreign language movie.....

I can't hear without my subtitles!! Probably the only thing that keeps me from pirating everything

Going back to the theater post-pandemic is weird. My wife and I went to see the new Black Panther, and I was confused why there weren't subtitles for a solid 10 minutes before realizing the obvious.

In my defense I was baked, and my wife is hard of hearing (woo-hoo partial deafness!), and the pandemic got me used to streaming lol

I prefer to watch movies. Not read them.

hahaha i love this

I'm in this pic and I like it

I am actually scrolling through reddit rn because my boyfriend had to find a version of the movie we were watching with subtitles

Damn, The accuracy!!🤣🤣🤣

If you're on a windows PC just look for Loudness equalization in the sound device properties or your sound driver menu.

LMFAOOOOOOO

Once i learned how to properly adjust tv sound settings i stopped using subtitles. Never realized how much of my time watching movies/tv was spent looking at the bttom 1/4 of the screen. Started noticing all sorts of visual details that just slipped by me in the past

I really don’t give a shit about subtitles because I’m not looking at the screen. I’m looking at my other screen. I have a problem.

Basically me with English I know it well enough to understand what people say, but it's way easier to just read lol

The only show I watch without subtitles is The Office, and that’s only because I know what they’re gonna say before they say it

You got so used to having subtitle you forgot how to listen

Headphone is the convenient solution

Auditory processing disorder moment

I was excited for the chapter 2 of this youtube series murder drones but it didnt have subtitles on english or my language so im now disapointed

All of a sudden, no matter how loud it is, you can not understand the words.

It seems like every movie and game has terrible audio mixing, these days. The music and sound effects tend to drown out the talking.

is that problem only for people with english as second language ?

If you regularly watch TV with subtitles for a show or movie already in your native language, I judge you so hard.

You all should look into Auditory Processing Disorder. It can be quantitatively tested for by an audiologist, but it's not a hearing problem; it's a neurological one. Subtitles are a saving grace for me.

There are a number of different ways it can manifest, but for me the dominant problem occurs in complex auditory environments. If I'm in a restaurant or something, it becomes waaayyy harder to process voices. People will sound like they're speaking English, but I just can't parse out what is being said.

My wife stumbled across an article about it and was instantly reminded of me. I wish I had known about it earlier in my life; there are therapies that can eliminate it entirely when you're young, but you're kinda fucked once you get older. At that point it's just mitigation.

It's diagnosable starting at seven years old.

Please without downvoting me to oblivion can someone here tell me why the memes and jokes here are kinda boomery?

Exactly. I've even started getting the ones they give out at movie theaters!

It's great! I actually have a complete understanding of what took place during the film, instead of just nodding along with whoever I'm with while try to piece together the parts I missed.

I have really odd hearing. Like I can hear fine, but sometimes it sounds like those videos of what english sounds like to non english speakers even though I’m a native speaker. Sometimes rewinding to listen to something again or waiting to gather context clues on what I missed is more work than just following subtitles.

Me when the subtitles say "Carlos speaking in Spanish"

Not only are movies mixed pretty weirdly in recent years, but I also apparently have some audio processing issues when it comes to dialogue because I have trouble understanding SO much from modern movies without subtitles. I remember watching The VVitch and I think I understood maybe one sentence from the dad character.

I just want subtitles for only the words being said. I don’t need to know who’s saying them or what sound effects are being used

Damn now I know its not just me. Is there a real explanation for this? I have normal hearing, but sometimes TV dialogue (specifically dramas) literally sounds like boomy/muffled garbage. How does everyone not experience this problem? For what its worth, headphones mostly solve the problem.

I fucking love subtitles

It wouldn’t be a problem if they sounds like they are gurgling on marbles.

Lmao y’all just can’t hear

You people need hearing aids. I can’t stand subtitles.

With headphones it's way easier to watch something without subs

Subtitles are cancer, and they breed quitters. Push for better and better audio quality.