[MichaelJHuman]

Well, it might be that everything is working right. Movie mixes sometimes seem to drown the vocals in the sound effects. Your speaker location and quality might matter. The receiver you have is a budget model whose power will be a bit limited. That could effect how clean dynamic sections in movies sound.


See if you can turn on something like Dynamic Range Control, or an option that will reduce dynamic range. That might help. If you can locate the center channel speaker better (better would be at ear level), or aim it at your ears more, that might help.