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Originally Posted by Jussi  And they shouldn't. Films are not about sound. Films are stories, and often too much sound can take you out of the story. Instead of enveloping, one would want to reduce surrounds to focus attention to the screen where the real drama happens. |
I'm not talking about unrealistic things that distract like dialogue from behind or whatever.
True envelopment is the exact opposite. If I'm in a 3D-jungle and the sound is NOT all around me, that distracts me.
A somewhat valid analogy would be the switch from blackwhite to color movies. If everything would be neon-colors, of course it would distract from the story. But if you have barely enough color to notice it's not B/W, it makes no sense to use colors at all.
And the human senses don't work the same. You just see the things in front of you. So a screen makes perfect sense. But you hear 360°.