I started to watch this on Instant Play with Netflix and was thrown by the fact that all I could really hear was the music. When it was a part with dialogue it was so low that I could barely understand it and sometimes couldn't hear it at all. Then the volume would blast if a band was playing. I'm assuming that the version on Netflix is screwed up, right? Or was it made like that intentionally?
shareYes, as of this posting Netflix's streaming version has poorly mastered audio. It sounds like it they took a surround sound audio mix and converted it (poorly) to stereo. Way out of whack, and unfortunately not watchable.
I came here to see if anyone else had issues. Glad it's not just me. Sort of...
Interesting to see this, as I recently watched the new Blu-Ray release and was wondering if I had my speakers not set up properly. A lot of the dialogue was difficult to hear, and I ended up toggling the sound and tweaking the volume a lot while watching it. Has anyone had this problem with the Blu-Ray?
shareThe only way I've ever successfully been able to get through this film is with the closed captioning turned on. The sound is bad, some accents/slang are hard to understand, and all the drug induced mumbling had me constantly adjusting the volume and sound output.
shareI watched an HD broadcast last night on MGM HD and the audio was especially poor. I dusted off my Criterion DVD and it sounded much better, but everything this guy said is still true:
The sound is bad, some accents/slang are hard to understand, and all the drug induced mumbling had me constantly adjusting the volume and sound output.