Do you really enjoy movies with subtitles?

Yes and its certainly better than watching a film dubbed as it ruins the film

I think dubbed films should be stopped, if people cant be bothered watching it subtitled then its their loss
 
They are a bit distracting though. I do have an attention span of more than a nano-second lol but for me watching a film is a bit of escapism, I do lots of reading and writing through the week and don't want to have to read my way through a film when I'm in chill out mode.
 
Isn't it more distracting to see the actor's voice out of sync with his mouth movements (except in animation perhaps) and totally unmatched to the film's setting?
 
When i went to see "Cloverfield" at Cineworld.The screening i went to (unknown to me at the time) was the hard of hearing showing.So the subtitles appeared along the bottom of the screen.
 
I agree that subtitles are distracting, and although I'm a fast reader they never "disappear" for me.

However, the alternative is almost always worse. The dubbing actor rarely matches the performance of the original. This is unsurprising if you consider all the advantages the original actor has - being there, in costume, etc. In Hero, the dubbing for many of the characters is actually done by the original actors, who are bilingual - but they still don't seem to give as good a performance as first time around in their native language.

Remakes are another matter. It often turns out that the advantage of proper English dialogue from the real actor is undone by the lack of artistic vision inherent in doing a remake.
 
I don't go out to watch sutitled films but if the film looks good then I'll watch it.

Suprisingly I was hooked on that Chinese film "Battle Royale" that was on a month or so ago. I completely forgot about the subtitles and got into it.
 
It is not Chinese, it is Japanese. (Just let you know!).

I always watch with subtitles on Tv and movies. I am hard of hearing.

If the faces, like spiderman, covered up, I wouldn't understand what they saying.

Last week, I went to Cineworld, It was listed with subtitles on the leaflet, but I went in then there were no subtitles and I got really angry. It's like they don't care about it. I had complained about it and they said, ' oh I'm sorry I didn't know it's supposed to put the subtitles on.'
 
If I'm being introduced to a foreign language film (esp Anime), I like to see the dubbed version first. But then I do have to see the original language film with subs.
 
I watch a LOT of anime and other Japanese programming so probably more than 50% of the stuff i watch is subtitled.

I don't find them distracting at all and, in fact, i never even glance directly at the subtitles; they'll all read by my peripheral vision. Years ago i also discovered that my brain was doing a bit of a weird trick. If i really get into a programme it does the translation subconsciously for me and i actually hear the characters speaking in English. It's a strange experience.

I can't actually be understanding the spoken Japanese as my language skills are so bad i can barely understand 1 word in 20.

Now, i must be off to watch some subtitled Code Geass and Mnemosyne. :D
 
The only bad point about subtitles is when they are difficult to read because they don't stand out enough against the background.
I have seen movies where the ST's are in a black line running along the bottom of the screen so that they don't become obscured by being in white against a white or light background making it less of a strain to read them
 
I agree. I've seen many a good film totally ruined by bad subtitles that just blend into nothingness and you haven't the first scoobie as to what was said and having to second guess whole scripts. :mad:

As for subtitled movies in general and if they are worth watching?

Then my answer is yes that they definitely are.

Many of my family and frienRAB have missed out on movies that I, alone have watched, just because they have been subtitled foreign non-English speaking movies.

Ironically, they have asked if they are dubbed, as they would much prefer to watch them that way than subtitled.

I can only put it down to real laziness in not wanting to give the benefit of the doubt of having the patience to see if they can get into a subtitled movie. :)
 
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