techsamurai
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So I was overseas for a while and couldn't watch Mission Impossible 7 at the IMAX theater I normally watch all blockbuster movies at. It's not the most modern system but it's the best I've heard and others have confirmed that. I figured I would rely on a smaller auditorium at the same Regal Theater.
Guess what? From the moment the trailers started, I couldn't tell DiCaprio's voice apart from DeNiro's so I knew we were in trouble. Dune's trailer sounded horrible as did Bob Marley's biopic and I'd never watch either based on the trailer. The worst part was the opening sequence of the movie which is supposed to be tense but could barely be heard as folks were screaming but sounded like puppets on the screen. The Mission Impossible main theme sounded nothing like it should.
This is a movie that scored 8 on imdb and given our love for the series and especially my daughter's, it would have been a 9 or 10 for us like Maverick was. However, none of us, were engaged during the movie due to the poor quality of sound. Needless to say, I provided feedback and tore Regal a new one in it. It felt like a 5 or 6 and the last MI movie I watched at theaters was MI2 which had incredible sound at the time with the rock climbing intro scene bursting into the iconic MI theme and the flamenco music. I can actually recall my experience at the theater and that movie is 23 years old. If you ask me about yesterday's movie, I'd say there were chunks of sound missing from everything.
So it got me thinking, Amir should be hired to review theaters and configure them as that theater's sound constitutes fraud.
I'll watch the movie at home and I'm sure it'll be a 8.9 (my sound system makes the music sound jaw dropping by complete and utter chance). When I pay $100 for a movie, is it wrong to expect sound that exceeds a $200 soundbar?
Guess what? From the moment the trailers started, I couldn't tell DiCaprio's voice apart from DeNiro's so I knew we were in trouble. Dune's trailer sounded horrible as did Bob Marley's biopic and I'd never watch either based on the trailer. The worst part was the opening sequence of the movie which is supposed to be tense but could barely be heard as folks were screaming but sounded like puppets on the screen. The Mission Impossible main theme sounded nothing like it should.
This is a movie that scored 8 on imdb and given our love for the series and especially my daughter's, it would have been a 9 or 10 for us like Maverick was. However, none of us, were engaged during the movie due to the poor quality of sound. Needless to say, I provided feedback and tore Regal a new one in it. It felt like a 5 or 6 and the last MI movie I watched at theaters was MI2 which had incredible sound at the time with the rock climbing intro scene bursting into the iconic MI theme and the flamenco music. I can actually recall my experience at the theater and that movie is 23 years old. If you ask me about yesterday's movie, I'd say there were chunks of sound missing from everything.
So it got me thinking, Amir should be hired to review theaters and configure them as that theater's sound constitutes fraud.
I'll watch the movie at home and I'm sure it'll be a 8.9 (my sound system makes the music sound jaw dropping by complete and utter chance). When I pay $100 for a movie, is it wrong to expect sound that exceeds a $200 soundbar?