My sib and I saw "The Company Men" on DVD this past weekend. Was it just us, or was the

[raccoon]

sound quality of the flick poor? Whatever it was, we had a hard time understanding what the
characters were saying.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172991/

[RiffRandell]

1. I could hear it fine.

Good movie.

[Suich]

2. The sound quality was fine for me.

I had a hard time understanding Costner with his Boston accent!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. omg...I agree. My husband and I were constantly rewinding to catch what the mumbling

really was.

I thought it was a pretty good movie otherwise, did you? Wish the end had come in the middle
of the movie though...would have made it so much more fun and exciting.

Some of the very odd anomalies though, to us, anyway.

Ben Affleck's house, in Boston somewhere. Absolutely gorgeous, including the furnishings, his Porche, electronic toys etc.

If he was only making $120k plus incentives he never ever would have been able to afford all that
in the Boston market.

Plus, if he was such a bigwig at his job...there is no way he'd be cold calling so much for a job. He would have
more contacts and a new job would have come by placing discreet phone calls. They showed that a bit - but
not enough for real world. Someone on that level would have been prepared to move into something else
immediately. Sales people switch jobs all the time. He and the other guys acted like he had never heard
of job switching in sales before.

Other than that, still liked it.

[raccoon]

4. It was interesting the way Ben Affleck's family was so supportive of him, and Phil's family so NOT.

Wikipedia said his wife was embarrassed that he didn't work and didn't want the neighbors to know.

I think Phil could've had a pretty good life after that. He could've sold some assets and bought a small business.
He would've had to adjust to having a much less affluent lifestyle, though.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Yes...re Phil...Some of the naivety was a bit unbelievable. Maybe if they had set it in the

1970's? When people really were totally shocked if they got let go after 30 years without cause. Not, unfortunately a shock today. Funny, don't think they ever actually showed his wife.

[hedgehog]

8. It's always a shock if it happens to you!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. that's very true. But, the unfortunate reality of today's business world, especially for

someone in management should have been more apparent. This is really just splitting
hairs, I suppose. It just didn't ring true to me.

[Yavin4]

5. Use the Closed Caption on Your TV Set

I do whenever I have a hard time understanding dialogue or cannot hear what's going on.

[hedgehog]

7. We tend to use closed caption for English language films

featuring accents from the UK or Ireland - it's also helpful for any Shakespearean plays.

[CottonBear]

10. We could not understand much of the dialog either.

Our TV set is so old and we only have basic cable, so closed captioning is not an option. We usually do not have a problem understanding dialog in English language movies.

[raccoon]

11. My TV set is old too--bought it in '86--so I can't do CC either. In fact, I had to buy a gizmo

(a modem, I think) to get it to work with the DVD player.