Do you use subtitles when watching movies or shows?

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Maybe_Maybe_not · Accepted Answer

From the standpoint of someone watching a lot of things in English while speaking Antarctiquench natively:

Sometimes, those foreign actors speak too fast, this is combined with the occasional hard to grasp jargon and my inability to tolerate missing dialogues lines.

Jersey2 · Accepted Answer

Sometimes. Especially for movies or shows that I want to understand everything such as Game of Thrones or the Harry Potter movies. I’ll also turn it on if the actor doesn’t annunciate in a key line.

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

I almost always use subtitles 😄
For foreign films and k‑dramas, obviously yes, but I even keep them on for English movies. Years of watching festival films, anime, and indie cinema made me love catching every line, background mumble, and name. Sometimes I’ll turn them off in theaters, but at home I’m a subtitles-on girl for sure 🎬📺

Telekinetic-Potato · Answer

It depends on if I'm watching alone or now. If I'm with friends. I knoe they don't care about every little hidden literary device like I do haha so I just turn on the subtitles so that even if we get loud I can glance at the screen and know what's going on without having to pay too much attention

Screenwriter · Answer

The only time I use subtitles is when the sound on the film is poor, which does occur for some movies on streaming services. Film sound quality is uneven.

Also, when people have accents that are difficult to understand: some British shows and others that have people speaking heavily accented English.

Using subtitles is subpar because you're distracted from the visuals of films which are always most important and you miss Easter Eggs.

NathanDavis · Answer

absofuckinglutely, yes... but only because of this (you only need to watch the 30 second intro, not the whole video... lol)

Cyfris · Answer

All the time. It started when I was 14 and started hanging out with a deaf friend often oddly because he had the loudest car stereo. But I was a huge downloading guy back in the day so the captions were a click that was easy to make so my friend could watch along. I just never stopped after even when he wasn't around. Now I watch tv with volume so low I strain to hear it which I think has made my ability to hear better and the captions make up for the words which are to soft.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, most of the time. I have a hard time following movies, so having the subtitles really helps. If Im in the theatre, I dont really need them (unless there's lot going on in the scene). I find watching movies at home, where there are lots of distractions, makes it difficult.

AviatorTom · Answer

At home, I almost always have subtitles turned on. TV sound systems, even when using our external Bose system and speakers, does not do a good job of handling speech, and my hearing isn't what it used to be.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I love having subtitles, I love encouraging all manner of accommodations. What benefits the disabled benefits the abled

Theunfadeable · Answer

Nah it’s way too Distracting. How are use English subtitles when I’m watching a movie and other languages with us about it.

Twalli · Answer

Yes, not for sports or anything that is live or a recording of something live. The subtitles are behind what you see. Most of the time, though, the subtitles are in line with what people are saying for tv shows and movies.

BrittneyHl · Answer

I can watch with subtitles but I like to ear it

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Not for German or English, but for French and Spanish movies (to stay fluent).

LadyBecks · Answer

I do not. I find them distracting. I spend my whole time reading and then miss the picture.

nolabels · Answer

Yep, I've been using closed captioning for many years.

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

My sisters and I almost needed subtitles when my Tuscaloosa, Ala.-born grandmother spoke !!!

beenherebefore · Answer

Yea I like to watch shows and movies with subtitles.

Xawyx-2 · Answer

Depends on what tv show or movie I'm watching at the time. If it's in English, I usually don't use subtitles.

Dargil · Answer

Always. I hate when movies don't have them.

MrChinaski · Answer

Meh. I'm normally doing three things at once. It's hard to read a movie and multitask.

NicholasofAustralia · Answer

Not often 😕  Lol Velma - 👀 on all fours 👀🧡🍊😅

LC75LC71 · Answer

No. Not even in parts where another language is spoken. If it's not there, I replace such laziness with my own interpretation.

LiamJHayden · Answer

For foreign films in a language I do not understand, yes.

Still-alive · Answer

yes especially when watching with my dad

Sunnyrjs · Answer

Sometimes like when watching anime or Korean movies.

CubaPirate · Answer

Only on a plane when the sound is too low to ear for the engines

Spencer10 · Answer

Only if its a foreign film.

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

Oh HELL nO! I would blow my brains out.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Sometimes.

Agape93 · Answer

Only if it's un a language I don't understand

exitseven · Answer

No, they are distracting.

Iron_Man · Answer

Absolutely not

mrkdvsn · Answer

Yes, quite often, if it's available.

ponderingpaul · Answer

Yes, I’m hearing deficient

Alex757 · Answer

Usually for anime I use subtitles

jazzy34 · Answer

Sometimes.

Alex-Snow · Answer

Sometimes

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Rarely

Jeff51 · Answer

Nope

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