The movies are made to be played on fancy, calibrated, Dolby atmos speakers in the theater and when you play at home, they don’t compensate for it. Ideally they would make 2 versions, one for theaters and one for homes
Unless you’re watching Tenet, in which case the audio sucks no matter how good your setup is.
Seriously. Saw that in the cinema and couldn’t hear a word.
But could you feel the words?
Yeah! It was way better when there was no noise, and the captions would fill the entire screen! Now they have “sound” and “color.” I don’t understand these new-fangled trends.
Edit: I WAS BEING SARCASTIC
the solution is Dynamic Range Compression. VLC player has it, but it needs to be configured first. One of the big reasons why I don’t use netflix/hulu/primevideo/whatever+