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So the film is not intended to be subtitled?


I watched this movie On Demand on my cable box and there were no subtitles. If this was an intentional decision by the filmmaker then that's fine (I could assume what they were saying based on body language and what he characters were doing to a certain degree) but if not I feel I may have spoiled important points in the movie.

Anyone out there experience the same thing?


"That moonwalk back there was streets ahead buddy."

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Yes. I was watching it last night on Hollywood Suite here in Canada and there weren't any subtitles there either. I hadn't seen the movie since it came out so I couldn't remember. My father was with me and he was pretty sure they were supposed to be there.

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Yeah I was using Hollywood Suite as well lol. I think we missed some dire dialogue during the final scenes with the German soldier.

Oh well, fantastic movie anyway.


"That moonwalk back there was streets ahead buddy"

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Hilarious, I am watching it on Hollywood Sweet(as we speak) as well and there are no subtitles. I actually have the DVD which does have subtitles. Not sure why they aren't included for this version(only left it on because this is a widescreen version)

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There are subtitles in many scenes on the DVD I have. I wonder why they'd leave them off for television.

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I'm noticing several films when shown on TV having no subtitles.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is one I've noticed several times.
It always had subtitles, especially during the exorcism scenes. Yet the movie channels are all missing them.


I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

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it was broadcasted yesterday on Arte ( a french-german channel) and there were 3 audio tracks: french/german/english and 3 subtitles available as well (not just the few subtitles from the germans, but subtitles for every line..) so I guess it was a technical problem that you experienced.

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