Hi Guys
I was there (assisting) on the original mixing of the movie at Goldcrest Post Production with mixer Paul Carr, who is a respected 'old school' dubbing mixer/re-recording mixer.
I have to say that there was definitely nothing wrong with the "quality" of the sound and I seem to remember the scene when the wolves are on the roof of the Landrover was pretty good in terms of 5.1 action? Maybe you guys could see if this sequence seems OK?
The director (very nice and enthusiastic guy) was more than happy with the mix we gave him, but I do agree that more could have been made of the 5.1 landscape!
With regards to lip=sync problems. Paul Carr is one of the most admired ADR shooters/mixers in the world and I can't imagine him not noticing lines aout of sync. I don't remember any ADR being out and the dialogue editor is too well respected. I'll get them to definitely check this out.
I no longer work at Goldcrest, but I may advise them to hire the DVD and compare it with the 6-track master to see if there has been some fiddling before it reached the DVD!!
This kind of thing does happen and my friend who works at Pinewood has been trying to make Dolby and Pinewoods mixers aware that what ends up on DVD is often drastically different to the mix they had worked very hard to produce! One of the things "they" do is literally have a guy/girl sat turning a gain control knob up and down as the film is encoded! They re-equalise and all sorts!! This is straight from a WB exec's mouth!
This is why many say that Laserdisc sounds far better than DVD. Some films are now being re-EQ'd (a la THX - for home theatre), which in theory is a good thing for those without THX, but for those with a THX processor (like me), we need to know, so that we can swith THX off, so we dont re-EQ twice!
I wish THX would make each process separately engagable, so that even if a disc is re-EQ'd (for home use), one could still implement the de-correlation and other THX enhancements without further re-EQing. Sorry off on a tangent!
Cheers Kane