Mumbling in fillums

[Noodley]

Time was one could understand most every fillum, no matter what the accent...now actors seem to adopt "Mumbling". My advice?


Stop fecking mumbling!


It ain't "atmospheric", nor "sexy", nor "sounds like a hardman" or whatever it's supposed to be...

...it's just "not audible" you dumb twonks!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

You what? Speak up, man.

 

[Abitrary]

This is all the fault of Mickey Rourke, and his mumbling half brother Bruce Willis.

 

[Aperitif]

I thought Robert de Niro as (gezza) the Taxi Driver was a bit of a mumble pusher. Mind you, apart from Saturday Night Fever I can't remember any films

 

[rich p]

I thought Robert de Niro as (gezza) the Taxi Driver was a bit of a mumble pusher. Mind you, apart from Saturday Night Fever I can't remember any films

I can remember the first halves but never the second. I don't know why!

 

[Maz]

I agree, Noodley. Whenever I watch a DVD, more often than not I'll stick the subtitles on, which sometimes annoys the others watching it.

 

[Mr Pig]

Who cares. The scripts are usually so bad who needs to hear what they say?

Last night I took sprog-two to see 'Batman At Night' or whatever it's called. It's not an epic, it's not 'brilliant', it's just another formulaic American action film. They could've been speaking in Chinese and you'd still know exactly what was going on.

Why do the local multiplooks use their millions of screens to show the same films at slightly different times? Butman was on in half-a-dozen screens each starting thirty-minutes apart. What the frog is the point of that?? Are they all full? Are they heck. Our cinema was maybe a fifth full, tops.

Do they think that punters who want to see the draped crusader are going to refuse to go because there isn't a showing at twenty-three minutes and ten-seconds past seven? Could the great unwashed maybe just go to a slightly earlier or slightly later showing and free up one of their multitude of screens for a film made in a country where they actually know how to do it? Like France for instance?

I mean when was the last time that you saw anything other than an American or British film at a multiplex cinema? Yes, ok we've the independent cinemas for that. Oh no hang on, the multiplexes put all those out of business so all we've got left is the cinema equivalent of McDonald's!

No idea what Batman was saying. Not because I couldn't hear it, just I wasn't really listening.

 

[Maz]

Who cares. The scripts are usually so bad who needs to hear what they say?

We all know what type of 'continental' films you've been watching, eh?

 

[Night Train]

Terry Wogan is another one who mumbles, which is a bit stupid of him when he is on the radio!

 

[bobg]

Surely Marlon Mumble started it all ......... cos he can't act

 

[Speicher]

There is an independent cinema near here.

There is usually a film on Monday mornings. What a decadent way to start the week. They also show some of the more unusual films, and you cannot buy buckets of popcorn. I will have to wait until early September to see Mamma Mia there, but the pace of life in the wild west here, is much slower than elsewhere.

 

[Mr Pig]

Terry Wogan is another one who mumbles...

Yeah, but the man's a god! If you can't understand him it's you that's at fault ;0)

 

[yello]

Our cinema was maybe a fifth full, tops..

Sounds perfect to me!

I went to see that Batman film too, at a multiplexer in Uxbridge when I was back in the UK the weekend before last. A dismal experience (the multiplexer, not the UK). The film was, as you say Mr Pig, just another action movie. Tedious.

I find I have to turn the tele up to hear what people are saying because, and I don't know if it's mumbling, but I just can't hear what is being said. I mean, I can hear them but what is being said is another matter.

 

[GaryA]

As Mr Pig hints, cinema these days, and for the last 20 years has been little more than corporate big business.....multiplexes are the visual drinking-chomping-gorping sheds made to herd the maximium number of punters into the most economic units to turn a health profit
pubs, pop music, TV, our whole cultural world has been taken over, commercialised, dumbed down to accomomadate the whims of a internationalised market....so descernable dialogue is not really necessary, in fact its a positive hindrance to corporate cinemas translation into other languages/cultures...best stick to escapist running shouting screaming grunting wailing...its so much more profitable

 

[buddha]

The mumbling has to be a marketing/advertising conspiracy.
Actor starts the mumble thing, so you turn up the volume. Within an instant, a commercial break is embedded into your ear drums at full blast!