MC Awards Tie-Breaker Thread: Best Sound

[Spinal]

This is a MC Awards tie-breaker thread. The winner will be awarded Best Sound. Vote by posting your choice below. If you voted for one of these films in the original ballot, you are ineligible. Anyone else can vote, even if you didn't submit a full ballot initially.

Those who are ineligible to vote in this thread:
dreamdead
Henry Gale
Spinal
Lazlo
Ivan Drago
Peng
baby doll
Isaac
Zac Efron

Your options:


Annihilation


Roma


You Were Never Really Here

This vote will end 24 hours after the timestamp of this post. Any votes cast after that time will not count. If this vote ends in a tie, the last vote cast will be thrown out.

[Ezee E]

Roma for the balloon guy.

[Dukefrukem]

Roma

[Henry Gale]

The bear alone, people!

[Ezee E]

The bear alone, people!

Is why it's a loss!

[Spinal]

The bear alone, people!

Exactly!

[Peng]

I like Annihilation more than Roma, but the latter’s sound design, espeically in theater, is one of the most sophisticated and immersive I have ever experienced.

[baby doll]

Could somebody explain to me how, in the last few years it seems, "immersiveness" became (along with "relatability") one of the main criterions by which people judge works of art? The idea of maximum fidelity to the sound environment the characters are inhabiting as an artistic end unto itself strikes me as the ne plus ultra of techno-fetishist gear-head bullshit.

[Grouchy]

Could somebody explain to me how, in the last few years it seems, "immersiveness" became (along with "relatability") one of the main criterions by which people judge works of art? The idea of maximum fidelity to the sound environment the characters are inhabiting as an artistic end unto itself strikes me as the ne plus ultra of techno-fetishist gear-head bullshit.

It's often hard to determine how serious you are with your assertions, but immersiveness and naturalistic sound ambiences have always been goals. They have no place in a Fellini movie, granted, but the large majority of film doesn't try to create its own reality but dramatize a story in a way that makes the audience forget about the techniques used - this is far from a recent phenomenon.

[baby doll]

It's often hard to determine how serious you are with your assertions, but immersiveness and naturalistic sound ambiences have always been goals. They have no place in a Fellini movie, granted, but the large majority of film doesn't try to create its own reality but dramatize a story in a way that makes the audience forget about the techniques used - this is far from a recent phenomenon.

Film sound has never been perfectly naturalistic: Take any number of scenes where the characters are talking in a busy restaurant or night club and we can hear every word they're saying, which would not be the case in real life. In other words, narrative films routinely sacrifice verisimilitude for the sake of narrative clarity. When people talk about "immersiveness," they often seem to be talking about how blockbuster cinema viscerally beats its spectator into submission with an abundance of sensory information (noise, movement, colour) rather than involving them emotionally in a diegetic narrative.

[Peng]

I’m gonna assume that adjective triggers some already-there nerve deep, because I don’t quite get how in a thread *about* sound, that word would inspire that whole paragraph.

[Dukefrukem]

Audiophiles...

[Spinal]

Official Winner

BEST SOUND

Roma

[baby doll]

You're all dead to me.