Mumblers/Whisperers in movies

[Jack O Lantern]

I hate when actors do this, the speak so low it's hard to understand what it is they're saying. It's like everybody wants to be Brando.

It's particular annoying when they do it in action movies. I was watching TDK tonight and I had tot turn the volume way up, then an action scene begins and my eardrums pop out of my head.

Just speaking normal.

 

[Dark Victory]

Nicole Kidman in The Others. I remember renting this and not being able to make out a word she was saying. Overrated performance, too.

 

[Kane52630]

JEH as Rorschach
Bale in Batman
Clint Eastwood in everything

 

[MadVillainy]

I hate when actors do this, the speak so low it's hard to understand what it is they're saying. It's like everybody wants to be Brando.

It's particular annoying when they do it in action movies. I was watching TDK tonight and I had tot turn the volume way up, then an action scene begins and my eardrums pop out of my head.

Just speaking normal.

co sign....

 

[Kane52630]

if you ask me, bale's voice doesnt bother me at all

 

[MadVillainy]

^^^but think of some of the scenes and you turn it up to hear the words and then boom its an action scene and the volume is all the way up. It happens in most movies

 

[Kane52630]

thats why you have closed caption or subtitles

 

[xwolverine2]

inaudible dialoge isnt the actors fault......lol

 

[Laderlappen]

Heath Ledger in BBM, but he makes it great.

 

[Jack O Lantern]

inaudible dialoge isnt the actors fault......lol

How do you figure?

 

[hitmanyr2k]

How do you figure?

I blame it on the director. He's the one who should be the one telling the actor to speak up or enunciate a little better.

 

[Dark Victory]

if you ask me, bale's voice doesnt bother me at all

Agreed. I can easily tell what he's saying and it shows how Bruce Wayne becomes a different person when he puts on the cowl. Though, I thought his Batman voice was a lot better in Batman Begins.

 

[Kane52630]

Agreed. I can easily tell what he's saying and it shows how Bruce Wayne becomes a different person when he puts on the cowl. Though, I thought his Batman voice was a lot better in Batman Begins.

yea, they really got it right in TDK
you cant tell batman's voice from Bruce's voice, which is what keeping his identity low key and realistic

 

[Dark Victory]

yea, they really got it right in TDK
you cant tell batman's voice from Bruce's voice, which is what keeping his identity low key and realistic

Yep. That was one of my problems with Spider-Man. You'd think she'd(MJ) recognize Peter's voice after he rescued her, right?

 

[Kane52630]

i know, i hope Sam Rami knows what is the benchmark for superhero movies when he do SM4

 

[Drizzle]

He's not really a mumbler or a whisperer, but I can't stand Edward Burns and his raspy-ass voice.

 

[Project862006]

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[Dark Victory]

^t:

 

[Ghostvirus]

I have been saying this for years. I hate it. It started with surround sound. You have to turn up the volume to hear voices, but the explosions & gun shots always seem to be amplified!

 

[Dark Victory]

i know, i hope Sam Rami knows what is the benchmark for superhero movies when he do SM4

Yeah. Spidey 1 was great when it came out(I was 7, by the way), now it's really showing it's age which is a sad thing for a film that's only seven years old. Spider-Man 2 was great, not excellent, but a damn good film. Spidey 3 was awful, but mostly because people like Avi Arad were too involved and forced too much on Raimi and his crew. Hopefully, he really does have full control over SM4. Now off the Spider-Man rant and back to the thread topic...

....Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry. Not only was it a horrid accent, but he'd only finish half of a sentence then mumble the rest.

 

[dude stannis]

The best mumbler/whisperer was Josh Brolin in No Country For Old Men, you could still audibly understand what he was saying.

 

[Dark Victory]

Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.

 

[The Guard]

Dustin Hoffman in DICK TRACY.

 

[Sawyer]

Brando in The Godfather.

English, mother****er, do you speak it?!

 

[Gilpesh]

Dustin Hoffman in DICK TRACY.

And really. Isn't it the director's and sound mixer's fault for when this happens and less the actor's fault?