Insidious: Chapter 2 : Is anyone else tired of holding the remote in their hand?

Is anyone else tired of holding the remote in their hand?

These movies these days are annoying. Can barely hear the conversations, volume goes up, but when they try to scare you, gets so obnoxiously loud I need to lower volume back down. Repeat about 20 more times.

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Yes, absolutely. I understand the desire for dynamic audio, which is louder during the action, but it doesn't need to be ear-shattering, and the dialogue, in contrast, MUST be audible. Voices are, usually, a lot quieter than explosions and crashing orchestras - but, on the other hand, require more attention, since you don't have to make out words in an explosion - so the former should be mixed LOUDER than the latter.

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Yes, that is EXTREMELY annoying, and I found it especially so with this movie. So much whispering dialog, followed by ear splitting attempts at jump scares. I did hold the remote throughout the entire movie.

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I'm glad to know this doesn't only happen to me. I was starting to think it was something with my tv! Definitely annoying.



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Yes, it is so annoying.

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You should be able to adjust your dynamic audio setting on your media player and/or tv.

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I'll give it a try...I'm watching Dark Skies now and same thing!

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I actually turned it off for this reason. I was bored... but I have sat through worse. But it's late and people are sleeping and I can either wake everyone up or miss half of the dialogue.

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I did not play with the volume but I understand what you mean because I think its annoying too. I feel the same thing about the 'gets so the obnoxiously loud' of the first Insidious and The Conjuring also! All directed by James Wan. I remember that during The Conjuring, at some point, I got the feeling that I understood the way he was working his scares and stuff in horror. Not sure it was a positive of negative thing but we know he is talented and I think he should do other kinds of movies for some years. I love his works! And would like him to try something else.

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Yes, audio design has been declining. They do this in TV shows, too. Loud music, quiet dialogue... These are my solutions:

1) For TV, buy one with volume auto-leveling feature. Many modern TVs have that. It works reasonably well.

2) For computers, on Windows 7 and up, there's a "Loudness equalization" feature. If you run Windows XP/2003 server or something, you can use VLC, which has a built-in volume equalization thing.

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Haha I just got done watching this movie, and I literally had the remote in my hand the entire time and probably readjusted the volume about 30 times.



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This is probably due to the center channel audio, normally reserved for dialogue being mixed with the left and and right channel audio which is normally reserved for secondary sounds, music and sound effects. Most TV's only have 2 channels so everything gets combined together. If you bought a 3.1 channel soundbar most would probably allow you ajust the audio level of each channel separately and balance out all the channels so the dialogue and secondary sounds would be a similar levels at all times. And soundbars unlike high end 7.1 channel systems are easier to set up and would not break the bank.

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It doesn't bother me because I like my movies loud. But if you have to worry about other people or something I could see it being a problem. I don't think it's the loudness, but the low dialogue. Watched Oculus last night while my g/f was sleeping and even though it's not a loud jump scare movie, I needed the volume really loud to hear the almost whispered talking. But again, the loudness doesn't bother me (I loved the loud violins in the Insidious movies).

Edit: I also meant to mention that I didn't find the Insidious movies dialogue to be really low either. Never had any trouble hearing anything, regardless of volume.

"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."

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Agreed. It's extremely annoying.

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Yes! This works fine on theathers, and even sometimes with "home-theather", if you don't have to worry about other people and just relax and enjoy the movie.
But I watched it on HBO, on a regular "LCD" TV, and it was annoying have to suddenly press the low volume button... they should fix the audio for TV broadcast... lucky me I watch with subtitles, english is not my native language, so if I lost something because of that weird way of audio-editing, at least I can read it. But it's annoying anyway.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

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Except for 'theather' (a typo rather than an actual language fault, I believe) your English is indistinguishable from that of fully literate native speakers. In fact many of the native speakers on the Net make gross grammatical errors their fifth-grade teachers should have corrected. (Whereas you even get the "its/its" distinction which so many of our presumably educated posters miss.) Congratulations :-)

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This wasn't such a big problem with this movie as much as it was with the first one. But yes, when the characters were speaking to each other it sounded almost like a whisper. Then there would be a loud jump scare or the music would be as loud as a black metal concert. It wouldn't be a problem if I was alone in the house, but I knew my family would complain if I had the TV too loud. This isn't just a problem with Insidious either. It's the same with almost all newer horror films which are filled with loud jump scares. That's the only complaint I had about the film. Other than that, it was great.

Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!

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This! ^

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All of this. Drives me crazy. And with this movie and the first one I had another problem. Too dark. Some scenes I could hardly see what was going on. I had to come to the boards to make sure I didn't miss anything in the last scene, when Elise saw something. I have a decent TV, too, so I'm pretty sure it's not that.

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EXTREMELY annoying

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These movies these days are annoying. Can barely hear the conversations, volume goes up, but when they try to scare you, gets so obnoxiously loud I need to lower volume back down. Repeat about 20 more times.


agreed 100%
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