Mumbling in movies

Just watched Mystic River, have been rewinding endlessly to try to catch a couple of words that an actress says: Jimmy's wife says of Dave: "He married MUMBLE MUMBLE Celeste." Have searched on the Web for synopses of the film, also for crits, also "look inside" the book on Amazon ... this is such a common problem, and especially with American films ... MUMBLE FREAKING MUMBLE ... not to be mistaken for cinema verite, it is simply sloppy, lazy, insular behaviour, aided and abetted by bad directors and sound technicians ... same problem plagued The curious case of Benjamin Button ... the opening scene in which a croaky old woman Cate Blanchett cloaks her perhaps insecure Southern accent in IMPENETRABLE MUMBLING had me ready to bolt before the film had even got going. Similar sound problems occured in other parts of the film.

This is a general and widespread problem in an era where technology is everything and humans have become lazy.