It’s safe to say that when most of us sat down for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, we thought there was something wrong with the speakers in the theater.
Particularly in the movie’s first scene when Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) is narrating and playing drums at the same time, her voice is barely discernible, and the issue persists throughout the movie at different times.
Now, everyone knows that sound is an important character in any film.
In Saving Private Ryan, a dull hum and persistent ringing can show a character numbed by trauma.
In A Quiet Place, silence becomes a tool for survival so even the sound of a pin dropping invokes terror, and even in The Last of Us, the noise the clickers made might have been more frightening than the monsters themselves.
So how, in an animated film like Across the Spider-Verse, with such insane attention to detail including thousands of Easter eggs,…
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