I really feel like the audio mixes are not intended for regular stereo speakers anymore… I pull a lot of soundtracks out in audacity for the sake of making ringtones and I almost never see a clean center channel… logically this should be dialogue and maybe some extra effects when they would be overwhelming, like an explosion, etc. but that’s not what I see.

I’m reminded of comments regarding Tenet where Nolan said something like “… you mess with the picture and nobody cares, you mess with the audio and people loose their minds.”

Hummmmmm 🤔

I’m the opposite. Anything that overlays on the screen is actively frustrating to me. I’ll deal with it for foreign film, but for English, I always turn them off, even if they’re defaulted on.

Apparently this isn't an autism thing any more. It's a pervasive problem lots of people are having in the last 10 years or so.

I do have auditory processing problems, and frequently misshear people in the real world. But practically never when watching things, even Nolan films. I literally don't understand how more than half of people report needing subtitles on full time. I'd love to find somone offline who has this problem, and watch something with them to try to experience what they are.

I've been to the theatre a few times with the wife to see some musicals. I literally have no fucking clue what's being said or sung. Its all just noise while people prance about on stage to me.

I do enjoy it but I feel like a dog watching TV with its owner or something. I end up just watching everything else instead, watching for cues from the orchestra at the bottom, and seeing if I can see the stage hands and which pulleys work which props.

I don't mind subtitles when watching non-English media, but I find they ruin English language media for me.

That's not a autismus thing. Basically everybody has this problem nowadays. https://youtu.be/VYJtb2YXae8

I watched "We're all going to the worlds fair" without subtitles and had absolutely no idea what was going on. I think I understood maybe 10 lines of dialogue throughout the entire movie. I read the wikipedia synopsis afterwards and it's a shame I didn't understand it because I think I would have really liked it :(

Same but I also have watched stuff at other people's place and realized some people don't invest in speakers at all. Makes a huge difference.

I always need subtitles when I watch anything

Best way to make it better is to not use subtitles... Although some speaker setups make it so much worse

Thanks for this... I'm doing a presentation on different disabilities and accommodations, and this will help make my point that accommodations tend to help everyone