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Author Topic: Tomb Raider closing credits Mike Jones Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Birmingham, MI, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-22-2001 10:36 PM                     What's up with Tomb Raider? The closing credits lack almost all bass and the song by U2 sounds almost muted. The film wasn't like this at all...in fact it had stellar sound all throughout. Anyone else notice this?  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 06-23-2001 12:05 AM                     Didn't notice any sound problems (during credits) with our print.. I'll check next time I work. I thought the focus was rather poor; colors a bit lackluster. I'm not sure if that's because it was filmed in Super 35 (I don't know if it was...it's anamorphic) or a poor printing job.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-23-2001 01:19 AM                    one way to tell if a print is super35 or anamorphic lens on camera. Thats by looking at the headers and footers. If all the information on the heads and tails have been squeezed then that means that the images were squeezed by an optical printer. if the heads and tails are normal then most likely the anamorphic images were shot with an anamorphic camera lens.  |  IP: Logged Mike Judge Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Seattle, WA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 06-23-2001 04:27 AM                     I notice the sound on the end too, kinda disappointing, I know our ushers aren't as happy, the love cleaning Fast & Furious though. I'm not too happy with how these look either, there's just something about 'em that just isn't satisfactory.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Brown Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-25-2001 06:44 AM                     I saw this film on the weekend, and I thought the whole mix lacked a bit of 'punch'. Like it had been compressed. I saw Shrek after seeing Tomb, and the mix was much nicer and richer Regards Steve Brown  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-2001 02:35 PM                     Before I heard it from the auditorium, I realized that the credits music comes only out of the left and right screen channels. This might be a big factor in the lifelessness of it, plus it seems low in volume anyway. It seems like nearly all credit music (or maybe musical scores in general) comes out of the surrounds as well.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-25-2001 03:23 PM                        Speaking of closing credits, I liked the music during the credits of Twister. Very discrete. If you turned off the left and right channel amps, but kept the center channel on, you would hear ONLY the electric guitar. Very cool.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 07-21-2001 02:42 PM                     The first thing I notices was that in the opening sequence when Lara is fighting that robot the sound of her firing guns sounded flat compaired with the bass sounds given out with the robott stomping about. The guns lacked the clarity of the similar gun heavey sequences in Exit Wounds. I also definately noticed a problem with the end credit music. The U2 song only seemed to be comming from the left channel and was very quiet.  |  IP: Logged Stefan Scholz Expert Film Handler Posts: 223 From: Schoenberg, Germany Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-22-2001 07:06 AM                        Our German versions were SRD only, and the sound among the poorest in long time. Lacking bass and no brilliant heights with compressed mid, another example of a direct to video type sountrack-mix put on a motion picture release. The film was not released through the Paramount outlet, but through a smaller distributor commonly selling videos.(Tele Muenchen)  |  IP: Logged

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