ernestcarl
Major Contributor
nver heard of the "dialogs quiet, explosions loud" problem?
but yes, it is not all movies...so it is caused by bad mixing, not the standard per se.
also, in general the soundeffects on some movies are just stupid, I remember recently meassuring a movie scene of a closing trash can that had 20 and 30Hz content. I also remember "The Invisible Man" as very bad; for example a guy running into a parked car sounding like a bomb
I do see what you mean. I've not encountered it often. I can recall one documentary show/film downmixed had that very obvious problem -- but that was many months ago. At the time this was more prominent, I may have been using quite bandwidth-limited speakers to have noticed.