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I used the Theater Ears app to listen to Project Hail Mary Director’s commentary and I honestly feel like it’s an absolute game changer. Read my experience below, please.
Saw Project Hail Mary for the third time yesterday morning to kill time before lunch and another movie and it was an incredible experience.
For those that don’t know, Theater Ears is an app that can offer alternative audio tracks to films you watch in the theater. It’s primarily marketed as a Spanish dub tool for language/accessibility.
The app seems to be trying something new and they are offering a director’s experience with Project Hail Mary. As soon as the movie started, I had one ear bud in and I could hear the directors talking about the filmmaking process. Right off the bat they’re like, “this first scene with Ryan waking up is the first scene he filmed, it was a great way to introduce him to the character and he needed to figure out who he was” or something along those lines.
I’m sitting there in the theater realizing I’m having a completely different experience in this than anyone else in here and there is something special about that.
I think we are the very unique community that can use this app regularly. Not sure about yall but I will happily see a movie several times in theater if it was an enjoyable experience. Now to be able to rewatch with commentary, cmon! Amaze amaze amaze
Technical details. I’m on an iPhone, not sure if it’s on android.
It seems that the app uses location and microphone to synchronize with where you are in the movie and it’s VERY accurate. The app warns you that you can’t record the audio track because it’s illegal and against their policies. I had to step out for a work call for about 30 minutes and when I came back into the theater, the app picked right back up where the movie was, I dint have to scrub through or do anything, honestly couldn’t be easier.
The app seemed to have that brightness override which dimmed the screen to its lowest level and couldn’t be brought up, similar to that live movie voting app from the interactive film experiences.
With physical media becoming less common, this was a feature on DVDs that I loved and soemthing I feel like is missing from multiple streaming platforms. Could this be expanded beyond theaters? Could it be expanded within theaters?!?!
I’m telling yall. This thing is a total game changer.
Has anyone tried it? What movies would be best for a feature like this?
Here’s the link to the iPhone app:
u/jfk_47 — 4 days ago