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I watched Zatoichi by Takeshi Kitano this week and noticed quite extreme gating on most if not all of the dialogue! In some of the exterior scenes I could REALLY notice how the hiss/noise jumped in everytime a line of dialogue was spoken! I usually think it is less distracting just keeping the hiss/room tone constant and reduce it as much as possible, but keep it constant. Cuts are more noticeable than a constant hiss or roomtone. The brain somehow seems to filter it out and focus on the dialogue being spoken.
Regarding ADR, I have done quite a few recording sessions and have seen actors that are GREAT at doing ADR and others that are simply horrible. I had a session in which the actor simply gave out the most boring, stale delivery you have ever heard. When I asked him for changes and variations in his delivery he would simply gie out the exact same delivery. Not on purpose but he just was not good at doing ADR. On the other hand, I recently had an ADR session and the lead actor was AMAZING in his delivery in the studio, many times slightly improving the original performance! I was sat down recording his deliveries and actually was being moved emotionally by his lines. It was pretty amazing. For a scene in which he ws eating, we made him eat and deliver the lines with his mouth full (had to do some cleaning afterwards :p), we also had him almost choke on water and cough as he delivered the following line to replicate the screen action. Later on in the film, he had a scene in which he is talking as he cries and has his nose all blocked up and snotty. After a while of recording he turned around and asked us for some tissues. He had tears rolling down his cheek and snot coming out his nose! Quite amazing! He had somewhat of an ego to deal with but boy am I thankful for those deliveries!
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