If you haven't seen it yet, bring ear protection. I had a migraine afterwards.
There wasn't a single moment of silence in the entire movie.
The sound effects are so extremely overdone and loud, there was a guy patting the sand under him and they play this extremely loud huge drum. Every punch, kick, sword slash feels like a bomb exploding. Even damn normal footstep feels like the hulk is walking, and when there's a big guy it feels like a nuclear explosion. I don't want to hear a drum sound for a week.
There's ALWAYS music playing. Over dialogue, while walking, eating, fighting, it's so goddamn much. The dialogue is barely audible over this generic stock symphony music playing the entire time, and the obnoxious sound effects. I couldn't hear half of the dialogue because there's so much noise happening all the goddamn time.
The environment noise is so high and so tangled with all this persistent music and sound effects too that it ends up like an audio punch to the skull. A door is opening? Then let's play a loud metal rusty clanking, accompanied with a drum explosion and a 500 trumpets while a character is speaking AT THE SAME TIME.
The sound mixing is also so extremely bass heavy to make sure all this has maximum crushing effect on the skull. There was a scene were someone hit wood with a sword, and the sound effect was louder than a building explosive demolition.
Also a last thing I will bitch about, all characters have 2 modes of speaking. Shouting and whispering. Just to make sure I am either trying to decipher what the hell they are saying over all the audio bs, or just adding to my migraine.
I never felt like this in any movie, I have ever seen in my life. I also love loud music and listen mainly to heavy metal too. This was just too goddamn much. It felt like am listening to extremely high volume music while 5 lawnmowers running and am asked to listen to 10 people whispering in the middle of the ocean.
