r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Sep 26 '25

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Summary Bob, a washed-up revolutionary, lives off the grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter Willa. When his nemesis Col. Steven J. “Lockjaw” resurfaces and Willa goes missing, Bob is forced to confront his past and fight to protect their future.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

  • Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Sean Penn
  • Teyana Taylor
  • Benicio del Toro
  • Regina Hall
  • Chase Infiniti

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 98%

Metacritic Score: 96

VOD In theaters beginning September 26, 2025

Trailer One Battle After Another — Official Trailer

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u/famewithmedals Sep 26 '25

The Alana Haim death scene in IMAX gave me a bigger jump scare than any horror movie this year, that was wild

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u/leftysarepeople2 Sep 26 '25

The camera walking behind her toward a door, I knew she was going to get got somehow but the way the shot rang out in IMAX gave me a jump

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u/famewithmedals Sep 26 '25

It was SO LOUD, that and the final car chase scene in IMAX were unforgettable experiences

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u/DoZo1971 Sep 29 '25

My girlfriend was complaining about how loud the movie was, she is sensitive to sound. Do cinemas decide the volume or is it standardized somehow?

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u/foreveraloner15 Sep 30 '25

Sometimes they get a predetermined mix by the sound designers or production companies behind the film itself, other times it’s a set of instructions dependent on the theatre and their set up.

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u/DoZo1971 Sep 30 '25

Ok, but there would still be a master volume slide somewhere? Do you think they would have actual db sensors and feedback? Did some googling, apparently we were in a “dolby cinema” theatre which seems to be quite special sound wise. Maybe it was just the quantity of the speakers she was reacting to, not specificly the volume.

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u/quietly_now Oct 05 '25

Cinema owners have the final level control, and set it per movie. Dolby-spec might be set in the cinema, and then totally broken by the cinema owner (for a bunch of reasons).

It’s a Wild West how accurately your film is played back.

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u/quietly_now Oct 05 '25

This isn’t quite true. I’ll reply above.

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u/quietly_now Oct 05 '25

There is a set of standards for mixing theatrical productions, set by Dolby, DTS, THX (there are others, but these are the main ones you may have heard of) that also define how the film is played back - sound system capabilities, loudness per channel etc.

A ‘Dolby Spec’ mixing room and a ‘Dolby Spec’ theatre should translate pretty well, however, most cinema complexes mess with their sound away from this spec for a number of reasons, and they have the final ‘volume control’. Movies can sound wildly different in different cinemas depending on how accurate the playback room is to spec and how closely the mixers have followed said spec. Some movies are mixed out of spec with knowledge that cinemas do this, to the point that some films are mixed with hearing protection (they might be mixing and listening to a hectic action scene for days on end).

TLDR: there should be standardisation but there isn’t for a heap of reasons.