I saw Tenet and holy hell I did not expect this to be this bad.
As I said previously in this thread, I was mostly fine with his previous work. But it has gotten worse and worse over time and that Dunkirk not having much dialogue kind of helped it. But Tenet? Dear God where do I begin? There's a heavy background music playing during the most mundane of conversations, characters mumbling etc. Then there are the masks, there have been plenty other movies that do "radio sound" that's perfectly audible...but not here.
You can't make a movie with complex concept and make the dialogue inaudible. And to those who would say it's intentional etc, what was the point of having the exposition if we aren't meant to understand it? Hah. Ithink there was one conversation in the whole movie that was perfectly audible and that one had no background music.
Apart from this the movie also kind of has bad editing, there was one conversation I remember where the whole scene between just two people sitting on a table had like 40-50 cuts because they'd switch the camera anytime the person would speak...even if it was like just two words. It's just distracting and makes things hard to follow. Though by the end of that conversation it got a bit better.
This isn't just about bad sound mixing, but also bad sound design. You just don't pick heavy music for exposition heavy dialogue. Interstellar had bad sound mixing as the dialogue was too quiet and music too loud, but atleast the dialogue itself was audible (outside of McConaughey's trademark mumbling). But this one has bad mixing on top of bad sound design.
And oh I saw it in IMAX, so it isn't even a case of "he makes his films for IMAX". You watch something from Scorsese and you realise just how much better he is at when it comes to dialogue. Hell even Michael Bay despite his explosion heavy movies, has audible dialogues in his movies.
