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Christopher Nolan is one of the biggest offenders in this regard, often having barely audible dialog drowned out by music or background noise by stylistic choice. I understand the intent is to let it wash over you but I can’t help but struggle to understand and it ends up just making me feel frustrated and taking me out of the film.

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I would have paid extra for subtitles when I saw Tenet at IMAX. The audio mix made it extremely difficult to follow.

All I wanted after seeing Tenet was my time back.

I love Tenet, but it has the worst sound mix I’ve ever heard.

Try playing AC: Valhalla

Tenet is an accidental Christopher Nolan parody

And inverted you wants your time forward

watched it in imax the first time and i thought it sounded terrible as well. watching at home with subtitles on the second time around really helped clear up a few things.

it doesn't help that they also have masks on for most of the movie, or they're having to talk over the sound of loud speedboat, or the accents are foreign, either russian or indian

The worst thing is that apparently the audio mix in Tenet was intentional according to Nolan.

In Switzerland every movie has German and French sub-titles. Sadly you can't turn them off in the theater but it's helpful id you can't understand what the actors are mumbling.

Taking up a lot of screen space too?

Reminds me my dad said when he first moved abroad before he learned the local language, everyone would read the subtitles and laugh at the joke and then he couldn't hear what they had just laughed at.

Invoking a pretty old video that still makes me smile to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukMXA0SJaM

Nolan is just trolling us, he knows we’ll pay good money for crap we can’t understand or hear.

If you can't hear it, you can't criticize it.

"But he said it with such an air of gravity..."

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