Well buck, I won't qualify myself as intelligent, but I do know that there have been a lot of films in recent years with poorly recorded/mixed dialogue. Then to make it more interesting, guys like Chris Nolan intentionally using dialogue that's hard to hear to accentuate how loud an environment is. Here's a read that covers interstellar a little bit. Google search movie dialogue issues or whatever variation you can come up with will bring up similar stories. Might not be any consolation for eagleshadow but some insight can help.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/christopher-nolan-breaks-silence-interstellar-749465
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The problem with that picture is that the story is fanciful and far fetched. The best part of it is the sound track. Chris Nolan is a bit of a mumbler, but you can hear him.
That leads me to the major point, that that film can really only be played on a very professional sound system. Many cinemas struggle with it, and some have been damaged by it.
If you have a rig that will play it at a level where the dialog is understood, then parts of the movie are very loud indeed.
The Harrison and Harrison organ at the Church of Knights Temple at Lincoln in Fields (the law courts) was selected. This organ is not often heard by the public, because Temple Church is a Royal Peculiar, is of fearsome power. When my niece got married there, the bride came down the isle to an organ transcription of the finale of Stravinsky's Firebird. Roger Sayer brought the instrument to a quite deafening climax. I'm quite sure this is the film maker's desired playback level for some of the organ passages in the movie. I should also state that this organ has a detached and large 32 ft division, so its bass output can be enormous.
Harrison and Harrison Organ at Temple Church.
32ft division of the organ.
In the movie in my theater some of the organ passages play back very loud. Some of the sound effects are also very loud. For instance the rocket launch really makes you feel you are going into space and the sound is totally surrounding and shaking the whole floor. That is one of the most incredible sound effect scenes I know.
At the end of the day, the film makers have produced a sound track that I feel very few systems can play and deliver the presentation the producers intended. That is the real problem.