‘Tenet’s’ Sound Mix Has Been A Huge Negative for Audiences
By George Robbins
Christopher Nolan is a director who has become known worldwide as being a man who can make movies that both impress and confuse the audience. Over the past decade and a half, he has done his best to bring in countless audiences to see his films and it has resulted in billions of dollars in box office sales. His films often have people becoming fascinated with them just from the trailers alone and people are more than willing to go and see his newest films with little to no explanation as to what they may be about. If it wasn’t for his ability to create films that make people think about what is going on, then he wouldn’t have created such a dedicated fan base. He has had the chance yet again recently to bring people in with his movie ‘Tenet.’
‘Tenet’ is a film that he has been trying to advocate for awhile to get to be the first movie available in theaters once they were able to reopen. As such, it was originally set to release in mid-July and due to a second wave of the virus, it was pushed back again to the end of August. The movie was forced to have an international release first and then a domestic one this past weekend, one week after the initial release, due to the previously stated delay. As such, many were building up anticipation to go and see the movie once it hit theaters and it blew expectations out of the water. The movie ended up selling better than expected, though it was still very much shy of being called a true success.
This past weekend saw the domestic release of the new Christopher Nolan spy thriller and people have some relatively mixed feelings about the film thus far. Obviously, the fact that it is a cold war-esque spy thriller with time-manipulation elements has made the film a highly interesting one for people to go and see. Unfortunately though, it seems that the sound design for the movie has been an issue for a lot of the people who have already gone to see the movie. Audiences who have already gone to see ‘Tenet’ have complained that important dialogue in the film is unintelligible due to the bad sound mixing. This makes it seem like there are going to be some issues for the blockbuster moving forward and thus, problems for the studio. Maybe they can retroactively fix the issue, but at this point, only time will tell.