Subtitles on movies and TV

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i only like subtitles when watching movies from foreign countries.

I can watch TV or movies only with the subtitles on... my hearing is fine also.

I think it's even more severe for me.

I must read reviews about the movie, not too much, but some basics to enjoy it. And after watching a movie, I must read what others say about it or look up famous quotes I really liked but can't remember perfectly.

Or complex movies or TV shows (Lost, Batthestar Galactica) reading on forums and blogs to try and understand.

It is sort of post-subtitles, but the same feelings you guys describe. But an even more refined and advanced form of it. My primary obsessions are computers and reading.

P.S. I enjoy reading song lyrics I really like while the song is playing. I also have a pretty limited number of songs I like and don't mind listening to them over and over - become somewhat obsessive about say 100 songs... and they never stick in my mind, enjoy hearing them each time.

In my country movies with subtitles aren’t seen in TV, the only exception I can think of is TV Polonia channel with movies produced in Poland; they have English subtitles for living in other countries viewers of Polish origin whose knowledge of our language isn’t really good.

Our movies look in this way: an actor is speaking his role in English (or another native tongue of him) and in the same time a so called “lector” is translating it into Polish. As for dubbing, only cartoons and generally children’s movies are dubbed.

See the movie, once with subtitles, once without.

ruveyn

I don't feel any particular need for subtitles, but they don't irritate me either. I watch a lot of foreign-language (Japanese) TV shows and movies, so I'm quite used to subs being there. Sometimes I get so used to watching subbed TV that when I watch something in English, I still find myself wanting to glance down to the bottom of the screen.

It does annoy me, though, when I understand a line without subs, and the subs get it wrong.

When I was a child, my family lived in Germany and the Netherlands for a while, and I do remember that the Dutch TV stations subtitled English-language shows they aired, while the German stations dubbed them. I'm not sure if it's simply because there are more English speakers in the Netherlands than in Germany, or whether it's just a preference.

I have always and forever loved to have subtitles on when I watch anything. It bugs the heck out of my family but it really helps me understand what's going on.

I thought I was the only one! Yes, I even rigged my TV so that my cable channels had subtitles because I set it to a 'deaf setting' or something. It was pretty cool.

I love subtitles myself so I do not find it odd. I have a easier time following.

For me subtitles are very useful whenever i watch a film or so.

I´m the same as many here, I definitely seem to process language better when I see it written down too. I can barely watch a film without subtitles now, or I sometimes feel like I´m missing bits.

Add another guy who likes subtitles.
But, then again, I'm normally a visual
learner anyway.

Well, as a subtitle addict, I think I have (I can't follow programs at all without them)
One of my favourites, the subtitle people made valient efforts to put up the lyrics to the songs on Later..with Jools Holland ....until it came to Ladysmith Black Mabasa (apols if sp wrong)...after attempting a phoenetic spelling of a couple of phrases, gave up and just put in capitals "THEY SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE"

Also the polititian Menzies Campbell was dubbed throughout a news item as "Minky Whale"...

I found that reading the subtitles does increase my language comprehension. I do get more out of it. I actually started doing it because I wanted to keep the volume turned down and not bother my housemate. But eventually I started doing it all the time.
As a bonus, if I watch a movie on DVD, it means I don't have to be surrounded by people in a theater.

Yay, I thought I was the only "deaf" one like that! I can't watch a single movie on TV without subtitles... What a shame...
In the theater it's better because they turn the volume way up and surround sound is more natural to the ear. But sometimes I get lost while watching a movie in the theatre, if the movie's plot comprehension largely depends on understanding the dialogue. That's why I prefer reading books to watching movies.

I also like dvds because you can just rewind it if you think you missed something, or go back to an earlier point when something becomes clearer in the plot. I even watch dvds over and over again to pick up the non-verbal language; I see more and more subtleties the more I watch something.