The day I dub an Akira Kurosawa film is the day I die a little inside. But Godzilla movie...oh yeah. Definitely. LOL Also anime I watch dubbed. We have some great voice actors over here.
Poll: Dubbed vs Subtitled
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I've experienced that too, where you know you're just reading subtitles, but it feels like the characters are talking to you. It's really weird, but as you said it's nice.PedroSteckecilo said:
Oh, and I definitely prefer subtitled. I've stopped watching movies if they're dubbed. (I tried to watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon dubbed. It was horrible, and I only got through five minutes.)
I prefer dubbed, as I like to watch the film and I can't really do that when I am focusing on the reading part.
Having said that, when a film is dubbed badly it can really ruin it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-JKhOaTlE
Having said that, when a film is dubbed badly it can really ruin it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-JKhOaTlE
agreed. i couldn't imagine pans labyrinth english dubbed. subtitles keep the feeling of the movie imoRezfon said:
I'm not big on live-action dubs, just cause it's lot more noticeable than in animation. Plus the recordings don't tend to match the environment, like when the characters are outside but sound like they're in a recording booth. However, I like live action dubs if they were dubbed for humor, like say, What's Up, Tiger Lily or Jet Li's The One movies.
Mainly because a lot of dubbing is half-assed and it sucks. Not in an enjoyable way like old kung-fu flicks. But I prefer my anime to be dubbed. Slightly ironic I guess.
Subtitles, clearly. The dubbed version of Day Watch doesn't even make any sense.
EDIT: Or maybe Night Watch, whichever one comes first. I never watched the other one because the dubbed version was so butchered that I couldn't come close to following it.
EDIT: Or maybe Night Watch, whichever one comes first. I never watched the other one because the dubbed version was so butchered that I couldn't come close to following it.
I voted dubs because I thought anime first, and as long as the dubbing company TRIES (watch Azumanga Daioh, they have the best anime dub i've heard yet, and it's a good show). But if it's live action I want subs. The dubs never really fit as well so my brain hurts and then I focus on aspirin instead of te actual movie, which sucks because there's a lot of good foreign movies.
Subtitles until they stop picking voice actors that don't sound ANYTHING like the original actor. Why do they always give some little weedy-looking guy this huge voice that makes him sound like Darth Vader?!
only the illiterate prefer foreign language films to be dubbed... but they probably don't watch many foreign films to begin with.....
subtitles permit one to hear the voices of the original actors, and usually the dubbed voices aren't as talented or suited to the roles they're assigned. also, many times lines and meanings are altered in the process of dubbing a film, especially with Japanese tranlations...
subtitles permit one to hear the voices of the original actors, and usually the dubbed voices aren't as talented or suited to the roles they're assigned. also, many times lines and meanings are altered in the process of dubbing a film, especially with Japanese tranlations...
My stance is that it depends on what the movie is. There are even a few of those Chinese kung-fu movies that are just bad and corny enough that I watch it with both. It's always funny to see the disparities between the strait translation of the subtitles and the attempt to have dialogue that matches the mouths with the dubbing.
Agreed as well. For a movie like Pans labyrinth which is mostly visual in its execution(There is language but the heart of the movie lies in its visuals; even without subtitles, I would "get" the movie), subtitles are perfect. For action movies it matters less, but depending on the tone of the movie, dubbing can be the better choice. Comedies don't translate well, so its best to avoid foreign language comedies.(I enjoyed Kung Fu Hustle, but only for the visual gags. It got no laughs from me for the written/spoken jokes)Movies that depend heavily on dialogue also don't work either dubbed or subtitled. Basically for a foreign language movie to watchable, language needs to be an almost insignificant part of the film.Dkozza said:
I prefer sub-titled, but I feel both of them detract from the initial film.
Dubbed movies mess up the dialog and the emotionality of the actors, but sub-titles cause the viewer to miss many of the visual nuances of the film because they are always looking at the bottom.
I think sub-titles detract less though.
Dubbed movies mess up the dialog and the emotionality of the actors, but sub-titles cause the viewer to miss many of the visual nuances of the film because they are always looking at the bottom.
I think sub-titles detract less though.
I do prefer subtitles, mainly on anime for three reasons:
1. Regardless of what other people think, I like to experience the film/episode as it was originally meant to be, with the original actors and the original cultural nuances.
2. I get to learn a little of another language whilst being entertained.
3. The really heavy american accents used on most anime (usually because most characters are young and brash) can be hard and grate a little on english ears - it's like swapping one foreign language for another.
I've discovered that I'm a pedantic bugger and when I hear a strong southern accent on someone who's meant to be from Kansai I end up screaming at the screen.
It's not big and it's not clever or tolerant, but nevertheless. I. Hate. It.
But I know full well there are great dubs out there - Fruits Basket is one that I can enjoy. The person who cast Chichiri in Fushigi Yugi should be brought out at dawn and shot. I bet he was the same bugger who cast the 'old woman' who reads at the beginning of each episode as well.
I'm surprised that someone doesn't like the VA for Watanuki in xxxHolic though, he does scream rather loudly, but when things get serious there are few to match him.
1. Regardless of what other people think, I like to experience the film/episode as it was originally meant to be, with the original actors and the original cultural nuances.
2. I get to learn a little of another language whilst being entertained.
3. The really heavy american accents used on most anime (usually because most characters are young and brash) can be hard and grate a little on english ears - it's like swapping one foreign language for another.
I've discovered that I'm a pedantic bugger and when I hear a strong southern accent on someone who's meant to be from Kansai I end up screaming at the screen.
It's not big and it's not clever or tolerant, but nevertheless. I. Hate. It.
But I know full well there are great dubs out there - Fruits Basket is one that I can enjoy. The person who cast Chichiri in Fushigi Yugi should be brought out at dawn and shot. I bet he was the same bugger who cast the 'old woman' who reads at the beginning of each episode as well.
I'm surprised that someone doesn't like the VA for Watanuki in xxxHolic though, he does scream rather loudly, but when things get serious there are few to match him.
I beg to differ. I like a few dubbed films, and I can read just fine. Personally I never understood the whole hearing how it was meant to be heard thing. Whenever I have to read subtitles, my mind kind of drowns out the words anyway. They're frequently replaced in my mind with English speaking voices. Typically ones that sound oddly like myselfYog Sothoth said:
And having absolutely zero knowledge on most foreign languages, I wouldn't understand the subtleties and nuances of the language anyway. If I was proficient enough in a language that I could read the character from how they say certain words, I'd say I was beyond needing dubs or subtitles anyway.
But as for the actual question, do I prefer dubs or subtitles...I can only answer that on a case-by-case basis. Somethings are better dubbed, some are better with subtitles. Though one thing I'm adamant about; I can not play subtitled video games. I just cant. I'm OCD about knowing everything I need to know about the plot, and I always get paranoid that I missed something in that last subtitle that I couldn't read because I was preoccupied with some bad guy ripping my nipples off.
