I hate these arrogant posts that attempt to put people, especially Americans, down for not reading subtitles , implying that that type of viewer is dumb and beneath them.
I suppose there are some benefits sometimes, but mostly I want to pay close attention to facial expressions, clothing. And surroundings or locations. You can't do all that and read subtitles?
Have you lived in a foreign country? If so them you know that many movies are dubbed into that foreign language for the viewers. Incidentally, I saw that movie about barfly with Micky rourke and Faye Dunaway in German and it was much better than in English, the original soundtrack language.
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C.S.Wood
9 years ago
Well partly to your point, I know it's not just Americans who don't like subtitles, but I've encountered more Americans who not only don't like to read subtitles, but don't like to read period unless it's on the internet, and sometimes not even then.
Feel free to call me arrogant for being annoyed at people who are allergic to reading no matter what country they come from. And Barfly isn't exactly a masterpiece so I'm not too surprised the German track was better, but in my personal experience, dubbing almost always sounds ridiculous and fails to capture the emotion of the actors which I can usually detect even when I don't understand the words being spoken.
Don't try to cash in love, that check will always bounce.
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