I saw Gosford Park last night. Unfortunately, I can't give it a fair review since the film's dialogue was largely incomprehensible. A friend and I are trying to determine whether this was because of a bad sound system in the theater (his guess) or Altman's usual preference for muddy sound mixing and overlapping dialogue, combined with British accents (my guess) and a complex plot. Did anyone else have problems understanding the dialogue?
I think I'll have to watch it again on a DVD with subtitles. It was good enough that I want to know what the hell I missed, but if the sound problems were Altman's choice, then the man is a sadist.
