10 Things Everyone Hates About Modern Movies

While the home viewing experience can almost never match the majesty of a cinema's giant screen and booming sound system, home cinema has nevertheless come a long way in recent years.

One of the biggest issues plaguing home presentation is sound mixing, due to the overwhelming majority of movies not having their audio levels sufficiently re-mixed, if at all, for the non-theatrical environment.

This can result in sound effects and music being significantly louder than dialogue, requiring viewers without a "night mode" setting on their receiver - which attempts to reduce the range between quiet and loud noises - to constantly fiddle with their volume settings manually.

There are alternatives, such as raising the level of your receiver's center channel to boost dialogue, or just watch everything with subtitles turned on - which isn't a bad idea anyway - but it still speaks to the fact that studios can't be bothered to re-calibrate movie audio for the home market.

The discussion reached its apex among film fans last year with both the theatrical and home releases of Tenet suffering from intentionally muddy sound mixes, such that many ended up deferring to subtitles during home viewings.

But for films not directed by Christopher Nolan, where filmmakers actually want you to organically hear every spoken word, it's a far more frustrating issue given how prevalent poorly mixed home audio is across the industry.