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won an Oscar for Best Sound at the recent Academy Awards, and that lone trophy it received was well earned.
From the get-go, TG2 engulfs you in a swirl of sound, from its 80s-inspired music to the effects accompanying the airborne antics of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and his cohorts. The film’s numerous missions are all textbook examples of immersive sound, but the scene that will take your breath away is the climactic one where Super Hornet fighter jets descend into a canyon and then swoop upward and out.
The Atmos sound mix here is incredibly detailed, and it perfectly conveys the claustrophobic aspects of warfare where soldiers get trapped in trenches as gunfire throttles above them, along with the more panoramic aspects where they emerge and survey the destroyed landscape. With a good Atmos soundbar, prop fighter planes flying above literally zoom across the ceiling of your room.
Given the film’s long stretches of silence and whispered dialogue, when someone does accidentally make a noise – it happens, right? – the rapid and furious response of the huge, screeching aliens comes across as particularly unsettling. Those quiet passages cause you to pay more attention to the sound, andA Quiet Place
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