Andysu
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Local odeon bh2 screen 10, isense dolby atmos JBL, worst dolby selected atmos cinema I have ever heard in the 32 years ago when I started projectionist for UCI cinemas and lastly with Warner Bros.
It is no myth that dolby soundtracks, and cinemas have gotten not just Loud, but SHEER DEAFENING dB offensive that I have to wear earplugs and that is sign of a rubbish dolby atmos mix, rubbish sound system at the cinema and rubbish installers that fitted and rubbish sound engineer that EQ tuned it all, must have a hearing issue or has rubbish measurement equipment and faulty SPL dB meter?
odeon cinemas, policy seems to be utter rubbish. This maybe why many rather have decent JBL cinema pro at home and listen at sensible dBA peak levels. odeon starts off with a brainwashing pre-show that looks like it was made for youtube, that just loops music and some rubbish 4k image on the screen over and over again, then the ads start at shockingly LOUD dB level!
Trailers then start at Even More SHOCKINGLY dB level.
dolby labs atmos trailer then starts at SHEER DEAFENING dB level. Its then followed with two more plastered in your face and ears at Extremely Deafening dB level. Then the movie starts I mean the hard-drive video pixels with a rubbish barco or nec video projector that my camera can see the roll bars. Cinema is Dead.
32 years ago often complaint movie soundtrack too loud and often the fader is 7 , 85dB for feature and often fader at UCI tower park was set at 6.5 as chief, feared in not wanting to drive away public audience. It offered best sound over the other local cinemas that was still using A-type and SR could be occasionally played with new feature movies at UCI for lower lows and high highs with more noise reduction and used thee Experimental Overhead Surround, one of two UCI on south coast UK.
Usually feature movie fader is set to 7 with often ads at lesser fader level say 5.5 and trailers maybe 5.9 or .6.1 ? then feature is nudged up to 6.5 or some cinemas "7".
odeon bh2 is just plain obnoxious and off-putting and I doubt many in the audience have noticed the trend seams somewhat out of place at how they do the show?
One, you never stick more media ads like, sky-movies in the audiences faces right after a dolby trailer. It ruins the atmosphere for the entire movie show tenfold.
First time went to the new odeon bh2, was nov 16th 2018, for something about, 'beasts fantastic 2' ??? I sat front and centre so to Hope get a wild wide stereo L R? What a rubbish dolby atmos show that was. lightening storm during the first 5 or 7 mins of the opening was SHEER DEAFENING I had to cover my ears as I left my earplugs at home. "dolby labs atmos more life like natural sound" I think dolby labs needs a hearing check. Clearly dolby labs are DEAF! as well as the director, the producer and the re-recording mixers are stone DEAF!
I realized at some point during I checked my phone and time, Oh blimey, I have grocery delivery in 40mins and this 'fantastic 2 beasts' had another 50 mins till it finished and I got up and left, immediately. It was a rubbish movie atmos, believe me. £16 pounds waste of money.
2nd time to screen 10, was for that rubbish bond movie. No time to Listening to it. Again it was SHEER DEAFENING! I don't really need my SPL dB meter to know its over 85dBA peak as those mid and high frequencies would easily start bending your ears with sharp dB sensitivity harshness that is just simply uncomfortable. dBC bass range is okay until it got to a certain dBC level where it would be far too much. The dBC bass range is rubbsh at this, odoen bh2, it tries so hard to be THX but doesn't come anywhere near or close to few THX cinema I been too and I have good sound memory and sound feeling of bass in many cinemas and many movies.
dolby labs atmos trailer made me swear out so loud that everyone else would hear my swearing cos my hearing had been offensively been offended! It made my friends and his son feel, lol uncomfortable.
I lost count how many times I had to put my earplugs in for nearly 3hrs! 40 times 50 times I lost count.
End of that rubbish bond show, "bond will return" made me laugh while videoing end credits and I said out loud, what as ghost, cos he just been obliterated into smithereens. bond will return as female gender like star wars mary sue. Sigh, rubbish hyped garbage trash, dumpster fire that was. Roger Moore in later Bond movies in Dolby Stereo sounded far, far better sounding and John Barry music.
3rd time and it still ain't sounding any better. disney marvel garbage dumpster fire trash presents 'eternals'
DEAFENING ads followed by lifestyle of rich and shameless obnoxious, nicole kidman "we make movies better" LMAO oh, really? Then after that SHEER DEAFENING dolby labs atmos trailer and two more media ads plastered in my face and ears!! Then an annoying voice over by some rich paid shill, chris overton, that made me stick my middle finger up at the screen and said f, cos it offended me, being a lower class of society.
odeon cinemas is really snobby cinema with tatty sound system rubbish pre-show and odeon sound policy that says for rich people, we're play it at SHEER DEAFENING dB levels for 3hrs!
The london earthquake scene in 'eternals' highly offended me! Is this it? Is this all this rubbish dolby labs atmos with JBL can do in terms of bass and tactile, not that it had any tactile. LOL , really is this all the director/producer sound editor, re-recording mixers can do? That's it I'm walking out on this, Right Now! It Only took me, 15mins to fully now realize this odeon bh2 atmos is garbage trash.Shame it uses JBL PA cinema professional what a waste of good JBL.
My (friends) colleagues believe I am wasting my time. They want me to come and see 'the matrix 4'. They surely have to be seriously kidding?
My answer was, No. Go and see it and I strongly advise you take some earplugs with you.
I will never go to this odeon bh2 dumpster trash fire cinema again, Its far too SHEER DEAFENING!! I'm sure its in violation of 85dBA peak code. Nothing clever in that when it only take certain loudness peak to cause someone with tinnitus for rest of their life. I myself already have that due to Sensurround on 'battlestar galatica' sep (1979) and ain't stopped hissing in my ears for 42 years. Earthquake seen 4 to 5 times 70 six-track Sensurround, feb '75 because it wasn't 120dB at fully non-stop for 2hrs like =, 'battlestar' was playing at that caused me hearing damage. I can still hear good from low, low lows to high highs, its the days when when my auditory gets triggered off with constant hissing for 3 or 4 days in row. I think I should sue, universal pictures?
After I walked out of disney marvel and that atmos garbage feast, I walked around went into one screen that was empty screen 6 and looked around saw the seats looked like a dog been chewing on the seat or maybe a cat had used the seats as scratching post. Typical tatty odeon cinemas.
The acoustics was bad with a bad echo slap echo pinging reverberation at the front row where they have the nice seats Only, with cat claw marks. Ekk, I won't sit in those seats if I was paid.
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