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Having trouble understanding a *beep* word they are saying


*beep* me.

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Yeah....
Whatever that means.

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Me too. They shouldn't have done Era speak. It's horrible

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Yup, many, many, many other users have also complained about the mostly incomprehensible mealy-mouthed dialogue. The father is especially bad.

They should have hard-coded official English subtitles (transcribed directly from the official script) onto every single print of this film that has ever been released, both in theaters and also on all forms of home video.

*beep* me.


It's not your fault that the actors can't enunciate properly or that the producers were too stupid to hard-code in official subtitles to compensate for that problem.

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Yeah that's it. It's not really the use of "thee" and other period language. I've seen plenty of Shakespeare movies and live productions and it's pretty easily understandable as long as the actors enunciate correctly. These actors can't enunciate for s$$t. Even worse than the bad guy in The Revenant!

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It's not even the actors. It's whoever edited the audio didn't adjust the levels properly. It didn't need subtitles, it needed a better audio engineer\editor.

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Are you guys American by any chance?

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I am American and could not understand it but my English speaking Russian wife understood even less. There goes your flaw about the "yanks" being the only ones unable to understand it.

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Point out to me where I said that Americans were the only ones unable to understand the accents.

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I watched Henry V all the way through, several times, and despite it being old English, I never had trouble understanding what was going on. Old English should be, if anything, more difficult to follow.

It's not just the accents, its the poor pronunciation and dialogue that is just not loud enough.

But you got your "stupid Americans, we're so much smarter" post in for the day.

I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke.

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So, "yes" is the answer to my question then LOL ;-)
Thanks for responding and confirming my suspicions.

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It's implicit in your question. Why bother asking "Are you guys American?" if that doesn't have anything to do with why you believe they had trouble with the audio?

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what are you?

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I watched this movie and missed twice as much as I normally do. This is a movie you need to wait for dvd and subtitles.

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The dialog IS difficult to understand.
*bleep*
It's not that our being American automatically makes us stupid. Believe me, some American high schools teach little more than !!!FOOTBALL!!!, and few schools teach much about the form of 17th century English. To be honest, there isn't much interest (compared to !!!FOOTBALL!!!) in such subjects.
I think it's pretty cool to have the actors speak "as those as was alive" in 1630. I probably understood it better than some people, but surely much less than other people. I care enough about the movie to watch it over and over again until I DO understand the *beep* dialog.
Even so, captions would have been nice.

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I was the same. I had to put the subtitles on because I couldn't make out a word.

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Watching it right now and I'm having the same trouble. And I don't have subtitles. Not sure what the deal is, this usually isn't a problem for me...but I can't understand much of what they're saying. It may take another viewing or two.

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It's like they mixed northern English colloquialisms with old English, accents from the Dales region, and Yoda-speak and then did a really bad job at recording it. Very hard to follow without subtitles and I'm English.

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