The latest “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is an audio-visual assault on the senses, and I mean that in the best way possible.
There’s always something going on, filling in every corner of the frame with dazzling imagery and every layer of the sound design with background noise, music, sound effects, and dialogue.There’s very little dead space in this movie, and some have walked away saying that maybe the creative team should have spent a little more time tweaking the sound mix because some of the dialogue was getting drowned out by all the other stuff going on, especially during the prologue, which focuses on Gwen’s Ghost Spider and lets us know how she got mixed up with a certain group.The reports started small, with tweets from fans asking if it was just their theater or if others also had some difficulty hearing what was said.
It has since grown,…
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