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Here is my other non-spoilery review of the latest star war movie:
EVERYBODY IS GODDAMN MUMBLING ALL THE TIME
I don’t have any hearing disorders and don’t have any more than the usual mild ADHD case of auditory processing problems, right, and normally I can parse spoken words, but between the rumbling bass soundtrack and the fact that Rey spoke all of her lines with her teeth clenched in a half-whisper and nobody else was much better, I literally understood about one in ten of the lines.
The movie didn’t suffer for it but Christ on a fucking crutch. I’m not asking for Shakespearian diction training rhetoric school etc but like. Pronouncing a whole word and actually voicing the whole thing and opening one’s mouth is not a huge ask, right? At least once in a while, for plot-relevant things? I understand why a particular character couldn’t exactly come in for re-dubbing and they couldn’t exactly focus on her mouth so you could lip-read either but honestly.
Oh also literally half the movie was lit exclusively by strobe lights, they weren’t fucking kidding about that epilepsy warning. Holy fuck.
This is my I-am-a-thousand-years-old-and-cranky-about-it review but I feel it’s worth mentioning.
Here is my other non-spoilery review of the latest star war movie:
EVERYBODY IS GODDAMN MUMBLING ALL THE TIME
I don’t have any hearing disorders and don’t have any more than the usual mild ADHD case of auditory processing problems, right, and normally I can parse spoken words, but between the rumbling bass soundtrack and the fact that Rey spoke all of her lines with her teeth clenched in a half-whisper and nobody else was much better, I literally understood about one in ten of the lines.
The movie didn’t suffer for it but Christ on a fucking crutch. I’m not asking for Shakespearian diction training rhetoric school etc but like. Pronouncing a whole word and actually voicing the whole thing and opening one’s mouth is not a huge ask, right? At least once in a while, for plot-relevant things? I understand why a particular character couldn’t exactly come in for re-dubbing and they couldn’t exactly focus on her mouth so you could lip-read either but honestly.
Oh also literally half the movie was lit exclusively by strobe lights, they weren’t fucking kidding about that epilepsy warning. Holy fuck.
This is my I-am-a-thousand-years-old-and-cranky-about-it review but I feel it’s worth mentioning.
