Went and saw the lastest StarTrek movie at SkyCity cinema @ Albany a couple of weeks ago.

Throughly enjoyed the movie.

Though I have to say, it was extremely loud !!!! Almost to the point where I was wincing during the action scenes with the shouted dialog. It was loud to the point that it was hard to understand the dialog.

I like nice loud noisy action movies such as Star Trek as much as the next bunch of people, but this was getting somewhat uncomfortable. Rock concerts at the Arena aren't as loud. .. :-)

And my family complained that I was "talking too loud' for a couple of hours after.. No doubt I was partially deafened ;-)

I'm already partially deaf in one ear, so those with normal hearing, it would have been even louder.

Maybe the sound level was calibrated for a theatre full of warm soft sound-absorbing bodies ? There was only a couple of dozen sound-absorbing bodies in there at the time.

Is this normal now for movies to be this loud ?   I sorta recall the Transformers movie from a couple of years ago was somewhat unpleasant. Do they substitute lack of decent bass response by cranking up the volume to ear-splitting levels ?

And to top it of, I posted feedback about this to both Albany Skycity's e-mail address, and having no response from them, also to, I presume, the overall skycity cinema group feedback e-mail.

Needless to say, no response from them either.

Nasty-gram letter to the CEO next - I'm NOT impressed by their lack of common courtesy in not replying to a politely written e-mail ( much the same as I have written above)

Grr..