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As a hard-of-hearing person, I need either subtitles, or super-loud volume. But bad sound-mixers in todays movies make everyone mumble right before giant explosions.
And I really hate that Meta fucked up smart-glasses for everyone. We could have had IRL subtitles for people like me on local-only glasses, that don’t record people, but they had to make it creepy.
AppleTV has a feature where they turn on subtitles for ten seconds when you hit the back button. Everyone should copy this.
You use subtitles because you couldn’t hear what they just said, I use subtitles because I wasn’t paying attention to what they just said, we’re not the same.
Why not both?
You do you, but my hearing is fine so
Technically, it’s often that I’m not ABLE to pay close attention to what’s being said, what with my ADHD with APD flavoring 😮💨
Subtitles are awesome and necessary; blame the actors who keep mumbling their lines
Blame the sound editors who set the dialog to 1 and the explosions to 11.
Christopher Nolan intensifies
I couldn’t understand anything that was being said in the Odyssey. Maybe it was done on purpose to cover up the languid dialogue
I can’t focus on the movie if there are subtitles.
and sdh superiority <3
I hate forced subtitles
Me too, but I hate not having optional ones more.
Not as much as I hate having several options that are badly out of sync, though. That’s the kind of thing that’ll make me give up on a show/movie entirely.
Last Week Tonight has a bad habit of having subtitles lag behind for a while, and then speed through a few sets to catch up.
My ADHD wife and I were watching The Fifth Element on Netflix the other day. It’s one of those movies that I’ve seen a hundred times growing up, so lots of parts are just etched into my brain. There were multiple times that the subtitles were straight up wrong, and it ruined the joke, so I had to correct the subtitles so my wife would “hear” the punchline properly. Absolutely delightful movie though; funny, dramatic, great pacing, good action, interesting futuristic sci-fi elements, Gary Oldman doing his chameleon thing to disappear into a character… Perfect popcorn movie.
Worse: you constantly keep getting subtitles in the wrong language, even when the right one is available. And you’ve set it dozens of times. Looking at you Youtube…
Why would you hate forced subtitles? How many languages do you speak to be annoyed by that??
I hate having subtitles when I don’t want them. My eyes keep being drawn to reading them and it’s very distracting when you want to concentrate on the content itself.
Yeah, I think there is a misunderstanding.
You are probably talking about hard-subs or full subtitles that are enabled by default.
“Forced subtitles” specifically refers to subtitle that translate only non-default language or signs (like when someone speaks Spanish in an English movie).
Hate both types of forces subs
Can you elaborate on why for the later?
If you’re watching a movie in English and the bad guys are suddenly speaking a few lines of Russian to each other, why would you not want subtitles for that? Or if the movie shows a sign in a foreign language? It’s often integral to the plot to have that information.
The key is “forced”. I want to be able to choose.
Not in my experience.
Forced Subs are just that - substantial are always forced on.
Now which ones are forced on depends in the video and player.
I hate the opposite: on some streaming plateform when you’re watching something in original version + subtitles(also original) and the forced subtitles aren’t showing.
by “forced subtitles” you really mean the subtitles translating Chinese/German/French/… when you’re watching an English movie?
Any subtitles when I don’t want them. Even english on english. Heck, I don’t know korean but if I don’t want subtitles, then I hate having them forced on.
conversely i can’t watch the scene if there’s text on the screen
