WHO THE HELL WAS THE SOUND DESIGNER FOR THIS?

OMFG!!!!! Ok so I tried to finish watching it until I found another GLARING mistake. In the rundown of the features of the '72 Buick Riviera Boattail, the engine is listed as a 430CI v8 "Nail Head".... WHO WAS THIS IDIOT!.... First it's "Nailhead"... NO SPACE.... second nailheads were only used from '53 to '56..... Third nailhead displacements were 364, 400, 401, and 425!.... LASTLY the '72 models had 455ci.... now I suppose they could have put IN a 430... no problem, so I'll leave that alone.... HOWEVER, for a movie that would obviously drawn in a lot of car guys..... they could have gotten something right! Now mind you these are just the things I noticed while watching the movie... I was eating, talking to the wife and kids, petting the cat, kicking the dog, fapping,.... ummm k you get the picture...

The first car, the yellow black one indeed had really really poor sound design. It really did not sound powerful at all. And what was up with that car chase? Sure he was to be caught eventually but it looked like that car could not even go slightly faster than the cop cars...

i agree with all the negative responses though i think they go too far but i just want to commend you on stating film facts how ever super nerdy as this is a website for film talk and facts and absolute nonsense as long as its film related and accurate...so if what you say is ture well done..though it surely did not need to be said though maybe you can meet like minded people so maybe its not all bad.

Here is a serious question(4 u & me)

..when famous a-list stars have sex on film (even when using body doubles) is it their own grunts and sighs we hear or stand-ins??? (now that's got to be up your street..no / yes?) ;>

As one commenter pointed out previously, it's notoriously hard to capture the sound of a car's engine... which is probably why most of the cars in Gran Turismo sound nothing like the real thing, despite the mountains of audio recording they've done over the years (and I've spent a LOT of time around a LOT of cars... it's obvious how off the sounds are).

The thing is, this movie doesn't exactly cater to car nuts. I understand your frustration, but it's one that I see in practically EVERY movie I watch. I don't even bother to get worked up if the sounds are at least in the ballpark; a Mustang that sounds like an actual V8, any V8, is as close as Hollywood will ever get. I'm happy if I don't see a 4-cylinder that sounds like a V8 or peels out with ease.

Hollywood uses a TON of stock sounds. In almost every single movie I've ever seen, there was some kind of stock sound that I have heard in probably a dozen other movies, at least. Not just cars, but all kinds of different sounds. I'm not an engineer, but I'm fascinated by sound and am always acutely aware of what I'm hearing. If you want to enjoy movies, you have to just accept the fact that they usually have such flaws, and appreciate the few that manage to do things right.

Ironically enough, the Mustang's new V6 sounds quite similar to the Nissan VQ37, though a bit raspier.

Ok...when i saw the title of your post i was really looking forward to someone maybe having the same opinion as me about the sound design on this movie. But man, you're specific. I dont know what that specific car sounds like or what not, but it's definitely NOT the only problem with the sound on this movie.

Now, the movie wasn't unwatchable by any means. But a much better sound engineer would've benefited this movie. Voices and sound-bytes that didn't match 70 percent of the time to what was actually going on or what the actors were reacting to. Weird choices with the levels of music and action. I dont know, it all just seemed off. Now that's just me, the movie was ok. Not better than the first, but the way it connected them both almost redeemed the whole thing. Which is pretty cool.

You're getting angry at the sound design of a direct-to-video movie. Stop it.

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I actually thought this was a legit thread on the sound design (because in all it did suck) but you complain about the sound of a specific car? Give me a break! The like entire film's sound sucked in general. The sound editor didn't take into account sound space and a lot of the ADR and background talking was way too much in the foreground while the entire car sequences was missing dozens of sounds. I think they rushed this release. It was also obvious a lot of the dialogue was thrown on top of a sequence and it just sounded and flowed horribly. Like when the girl had the mini-gun on top of the car shooting back at Bill. She kept saying all these cheesy one-liners that also sounded unedited and with no real background noise. Weird sound design and editing.

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Javier Bennassar was the sound designer, I haven't seen the film. I don't think I can believe your story though, that part about you having a wife was a bit far fetched.