Tenet (2020) We made it 33 minutes.

[iamwhatiseem]

Another movie where the audio is "artistically recorded to encourage an immersive experience"
Another way to describe it is to say "you can't understand a damn word they are sayin". Doesn't matter how loud you turn the volume up - you still only catch half what people are saying.
This is just as bad as the fad of filming movies in the the dark, where you can't see a damn thing.
I hate both styles. The only immersion you get is getting increasingly mentally tired trying to guess what the story is by what the actors are doing.

Awful. It might be a good movie, but I refuse to watch any movie where the director cares more about "artistic values" than the movie itself.

 

[1srelluc]

CC is your friend.

I did not find that Tenet was shot too dark.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

CC is your friend.

I did not find that Tenet was shot too dark.

It wasn't.
I was saying that is another fad I hate.
Tenet was purposefully filmed to make it difficult to hear the dialogue.

 

[petro]

Movie was a confusing mess.

 

[1srelluc]

It wasn't.
I was saying that is another fad I hate.
Tenet was purposefully filmed to make it difficult to hear the dialogue.

Well in many scenes the dialogue is backwards.....It's one of the more difficult movies to wrap your head around but it's a good movie.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Movie was a confusing mess.

It didn't have to be. All they had to do was record the audio is a normal way, not purposefully bad. And it isn't the only movie that has done this. It was popular when this movie was made. Thankfully, it seems this fad died off. What stupid thing to do - make a movie, on purpose, where the audience can't hear the dialogue.

 

[1srelluc]

I read once back when the movie came out that it was not a movie for the unimaginative.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I read once back when the movie came out that it was not a movie for the unimaginative.

Could be, but the movie is not a fantasy like "Star Wars" for instance.
It is supposed to be a sci-fi thriller. So, be it that it goes without saying it is not based on real happenings, but to record the audio - on purpose - so that the audience can't hear a solid percentage of what the actors are saying to each other is not "imaginative"... it is stupid.
And why that particular "artistic" fad is gone.