jay

Renner is one of my wife's favorite actors - SciFi is my favorite genre' (beginning about 1959 with my dad's Big-Little books, and Flash Gordon). The plot, the writing, the acting, the visuals, the characters (except for that dumb-a__'d colonel) were outstanding. Our "gripe," which is MOST aggravating, is the audio-engineering - no matter what "profile" of our sound-bar we tried, much of the dialog was whispered / mumbled, and overwhelmed by the music-score and electronic sound-effects. WHY do these "audio-guys" insist on trying to make "movies" into a physical "experience," with belly-shaking bass and every visual "scare" emphasized with a 18db increase in volume? Even if you're a twenty-something with exceptional hearing, the intellectual part of the movie (dialog) has now become 2nd or 3rd priority to the need to use music and sound-effects, at high sound-pressures, to try to bring you, physically, into the experience of the movie. For this reason - alone - this movie, in our opinion, really sucked.