# I destest movies that can't control the volume, so you have to...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 7, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-destest-movies-that-cant-control-the-volume-so-you-have-to/790670 "2017-07-07T03:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-destest-movies-that-cant-control-the-volume-so-you-have-to/790670/21 "2017-07-08T03:00:58Z")

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Also, to add: an overly compressed soundtrack (which is what the op seems to want, whispers and explosions at the same loudness) is lifeless and flat and you miss up to half the emotion of an otherwise well done movie.

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-destest-movies-that-cant-control-the-volume-so-you-have-to/790670/22 "2017-07-08T03:07:35Z")

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Also also to add add: bad movies use dynamic range to try and mask it’s badness. Good movies use it to enhance. And on a bad or poorly setup system, they all sound bad.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-destest-movies-that-cant-control-the-volume-so-you-have-to/790670/23 "2017-07-08T23:20:15Z")

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My 3 word review of _Raging Bull_:

Raging Volume Inconsistancy

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-destest-movies-that-cant-control-the-volume-so-you-have-to/790670/24 "2017-07-09T11:24:39Z")

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Movies are produced to be viewed on the big screen, with the audio coming from speakers the size of Buicks. When seen on cable with a TV set with built-in sound system the equivalent to speaker-phone, , the sound sometimes completely disappears.

I go years of my life without ever hearing an uncomfortably loud sound in the real world. But apparently, people living in movie land are constantly exposed to outrageously high decibels.

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