That's how we watched it. I hate dubbed. It screws with the performances for me.
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
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Daisy Jane - May 10, 2010 12:41:42 pm PDT #8280 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Zenkitty - May 10, 2010 12:42:54 pm PDT #8281 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
LTROI is best watched with it set to use the original Swedish, with the subtitles set to 'theatrical version.'
Okay, thanks! I watch foreign-language films in the original language with subtitles almost always. I get that many people hate subtitles, but I read fast enough to keep up. Dubbed voices never capture the "flavor" of the original.
eta I didn't read the spoilery link.
§ ita § - May 10, 2010 12:43:55 pm PDT #8282 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't fall asleep during it like P-C did, but I did spend a lot of time rolling my eyes.
Eli was just dumb. I spent too much time thinking about the dubious logistics of continued survival to be able to get on the side of any of the characters.
tommyrot - May 10, 2010 12:44:31 pm PDT #8283 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's weird - it defaults to the dubbed version. Don't most subtitled DVDs default to the subtitled version?
And of course there are two English subtitling options, which is confusing if you don't know the controversy....
eta: or maybe there are three English subtitling options. I don't remember.
Daisy Jane - May 10, 2010 12:48:18 pm PDT #8284 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Don't most subtitled DVDs default to the subtitled version?
I usually have it ask me about language set up first, at least I think that's what Kontroll, The Class and Fireman's Ball did. But, yes, I distinctly remember LTROI just starting with the dubbed version, because we seriously thought about just sending it back if we had to watch it dubbed. Now I'm confused on which version I watched though, because I remember bits from the theatrical, like "Yes. I live right here on the jungle gym." but then I think I remember some from the original DVD subtitles.
amych - May 10, 2010 12:53:06 pm PDT #8285 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm fairly sure I watched it with the theatrical subtitles, but mostly because I would've remembered that giant ugly-ass font, and not because I found the dialogue all that memorable.
megan walker - May 10, 2010 2:34:49 pm PDT #8286 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oddly enough, I think I got this movie from Netflix today.
Laga - May 10, 2010 3:09:24 pm PDT #8287 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
And then there's Drunken Master which switches back and forth for no apprent reason.
I have heard that the English subtitles for Y tu Mama Tambien do not reflect the large amount of anti US-ian sentiment in the film. My Spanish wasn't good enough to be able to tell.
Volans - May 11, 2010 9:58:11 am PDT #8288 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Eli was just dumb. I spent too much time thinking about the dubious logistics of continued survival to be able to get on the side of any of the characters.
Perzactly.
Laga - May 11, 2010 12:40:43 pm PDT #8289 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just reported my 4th lost Netflix disk. That's fewer than 1 a year but it seems they are averaging worse than the USPS in general. Are people stealing them out of the mail?