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With or Without Subtitles?

With or without Subtitles?

  • Subtitles!

    Votes: 18 29.0%
  • No Subtitles!

    Votes: 19 30.6%
  • Eh, it depends

    Votes: 25 40.3%

  • Total voters
    62
The only time I'll ever use subtitles when watching something is if it's a foreign film, but other than that, never.
 
...only for foreign films which I watch with some regularity. When I'm watching stuff in English I'm often doing other things like looking at my computer and if I couldn't hear I wouldn't be able to 'multi-task.'
 
Subtitles distract me. I find myself reading them instead of looking at the action, even when I don't need them to understand people mumbling or talking fast (like in 24).
 
I do have a slight hearing problem. Also, have you noticed how many actors like to whisper? Although, that's probably just me.

Anyway, I usually do subtitles on the first time through.
 
I use them

1. late at night when I'm trying not to disturb the sleeping
2. when there are other people in the room being loud
3. foreign films
4. mumbling characters
5. eating potato chips
 
It depends on whether it's a foreign-language movie, in which case I'd much rather have subtitles than an English dub.

For English-language movies, never. My ears work.
 
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