BBC News star Jane Hill revealed that she walked out halfway through Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer after noticing a huge mistake that left her “disappointed”.
The newscaster, 54, took to Twitter to share her unsatisfactory cinema experience and revealed she had complained to staff after only managing to watch “half”.
Since hitting UK cinemas last month, the nuclear bomb thriller – starring Cillian Murphy – has garnered a slew of five-star ratings, with critics calling it Nolan’s “finest and most revealing work.”
However, it seems Jane certainly didn’t agree, as she shared that she was frustrated at not being able to properly hear the film’s dialogue due to the loud soundtrack – and she was even more surprised to learn that the problem occurs in almost ‘all’ Nolan’s films. movies.
She told her followers, “Saw Oppenheimer. Well, half succeeded. Disappointed that music & effects often drowned out the actors, I missed whole chunks of dialogue.
Not impressed: BBC News star Jane Hill revealed she walked out halfway through Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie after spotting a huge mistake that left her ‘disappointed’
Film: The newscaster, 54, took to Twitter to share her unsatisfactory cinema experience and revealed she had complained to staff after only managing to watch ‘half’ (Cillian Murphy pictured in the film)
“I told the cinema I thought the sound needed to be rebalanced – the staff said ‘we have this problem with all of the Christopher Nolan films”. Serious?’
And it seems several of her followers agreed, with some complaining of hearing problems with others, confirming that sound issues are common in Nolan movies, including Batman Begins.
One person wrote, ‘It’s not the cinema, it’s the director’s vision. Nolan has done this in many of his films.’
While another shared, “Colleague at work also said the same about the music drowning out the dialogue.”
“It seems to be Nolan thing. I remember seeing one of his batman movies and having the same experience,” a third tweeted.
With one more addition: ‘Yup. His films always have problems with the sound.’
Jane was quick to add that she doesn’t blame the cinema for her bad experience, writing, ‘It should be clear I don’t believe the problem was with the cinema?…. there was nothing wrong with the sound on the trailers!’
Popular: Since hitting UK cinemas last month, the nuclear bomb thriller has garnered a slew of five-star ratings, with critics calling it Nolan’s “best and most revealing work”
Wow: However, Jane shared that she couldn’t quite hear the film’s dialogue due to the loud soundtrack – and she was even more surprised to learn that the problem appears in almost “all” of Nolan’s films (Christopher Nolan at the press conference last month). photo).
Verdict: She told her followers, “Saw Oppenheimer. Well, half succeeded. Disappointed that music & effects often drowned out the actors, I missed whole pieces of dialogue’
Before later sharing her relief that she wasn’t the only one struggling to hear Oppenheimer’s dialogue.
She wrote, “Thank you for so many responses to my observation of Oppenheimer. I’m relieved that not only was I unable to hear the dialogue… but what madness! How can you follow a movie if you can’t hear the actors?!’
Director Christopher Nolan recently addressed reports that the film’s dialogue is unintelligible due to the sound, confirming in an interview that it was an “artistic choice.”
He told Insider that he didn’t want to use additional dialogue recordings (ADR) in post-production, preferring to capture dialogue on the fly rather than asking the actors to repeat their lines later in a soundproof booth.
Agree: several of her followers agreed, and some complained of hearing problems with others, confirming that sound problems are common in Nolan films, including Batman Begins
Opinion: Jane was quick to add that she doesn’t blame the cinema for her bad experience
Relief! Before later sharing her relief that she wasn’t the only one struggling to hear Oppenheimer’s dialogue
He said, “I like to use the performance that was being given at the time rather than the actor re-recording it later.” That’s an artistic choice that some people don’t agree with, and that’s their right.’
Despite Jane’s misery, Oppenheimer has scored epic reviews among UK publications with a slew of four and five star ratings – after winning huge praise in the US.
Christopher Nolan’s latest epic tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, otherwise known as “father of the atomic bomb,” with Cillian Murphy taking on the titular role, delivering a hair-raising performance.
Reason: Director Christopher Nolan recently reported that the dialogue in the film is unintelligible due to the sound, confirming in an interview that it was an “artistic choice”
It’s a hit! Despite Jane’s woes, Oppenheimer has scored epic reviews among UK publications with a slew of four and five star ratings – after winning huge praise in the US.
The film received a perfect five stars from Daily Mail’s Brian Viner, who wrote that Nolan balances thriller elements “magnificently” with “profound questions about the morality of laying Hiroshima and Nagasaki to nuclear waste.”
In addition to the praise from the Daily Mail, BBC and Empire both offered five stars, while The Guardian, Independent, Financial Times and Digital Spy gave four.
The historical epic was almost universally praised for its chilling treatment of the development of the first atomic bombs and for Cillian Murphy’s title achievement.
Nolan also received acclaim for Nolan’s amazing cast of A-list actors – including Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt – in small supporting roles.