It's not all that common that many big budget films are released with low quality audio anymore these days, but there a few that slip through the cracks. Although in some cases the quality of audio can be quite opinionated and matter to you as an individual, more than a general majority, but I've decided to research into some films that are known for their bad audio.
A common movie many people bring up when discussing bad sound is Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014). This wasn't just from your average movie going audience, many insiders in the industry also have problems and complaints about this one. The feedback hasn't been positive when it comes to the sound mixing of the film. Theres been many talk about misunderstanding dialogue and completely not been able to hear it, due to composer Hans Zimmer's score increasingly getting louder. This has many people wondering how it got released like this, it completely takes you out of the movie at some points and is not the standard you've come to expect from these films. Interstellar's sound mixing team includes rerecording mixers Gary Rizzo and Gregg Landaker, who are both experienced pros and worked with Nolan before on 2010's Inception, winning them an Oscar.
In 1972's The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, there is a few sound effect issues here and there but nothing to major to really affect the film too much. Audiences have pointed out that in a seen where someones windshield gets kicked in, you can hear the sound of breaking glass before it actually happens, and again in a scene during an assassination attempt, one of the assassins gun is smoking but it made no gun shot noise. These are very minor audio mistakes, that shouldn't be happening in a film of this standard but not major enough to ruin the quality of the overall production.
Similar to the audio problems in The Godfather, 1993's Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg also has a few minor inconveniences in the audio department here and there. During lunch, when Malcolm says, 'And now you're selling, you wanna sell it,' the short quickly cuts to Gennaro. In it, Malcolm's lips are still moving after he's finished speaking. Again in the kitchen scene, the instant the first velociraptor hops up onto the counters, it knocks off a large metal pot. There is no sound of it hitting the ground. I began researching Jurassic Park because of a debate we had in lesson with our tutor Andy Conway. Conway claimed that the audio and mixing in Jurassic Park was of low quality and that Spielberg was more focused on Schindler's List at the time, and that Jurassic Park was an after thought. This sparked much debate in the class due to many of the students loving Jurassic Park and was quite amusing to hear everyones different arguments for and against the quality of Jurassic Park.
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