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• B : thekidd
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  B. i think the american cast did a great job. : spunky munky
  • they did an excellent job for Princess Mononoke. however, Spirirted Away is too good to even risk ruining... : sikander
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  Subtitled is always the way to watch any foreign language film. To watch dubbed is insulting to the origi... : seven
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    problem with it is ytou can't concentrate on the images on the screen since you are so busy reading. I ge... : thetangent
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      I guess it depends on how quickly you can read. I far prefer subtitles to dubbing. I find dubbing insulti... : seven
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        Can you imagine watching The Matrix, or X2 subtitled? You'd miss half of what was on the screen. :/ : thetangent
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          they don't usually talk when fighting.. other than the occassional WHUMP, OOFF : sikander
          • truth. I laughed : monohydrate
        • I watched "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" subtitled. I mocked people who watched it dubbed. It's a ca... : seven
• Why are you even asking? This is the most ridiculous shackpoll I've ever seen. It's akin to asking, sho... : arizona bay
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  Dubbed? Who watches entire movies in subtitle? LAME : hodapp1234
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    dubs are for the unwashed masses. : karl hungus
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      I'm sorry but I like to watch a move, not read it at the bottom of the screen. If i want to read I pick ... : hodapp1234
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        exactly. so you're an unwashed heathen. damned if i care. : karl hungus
        • You are a true coinoisseur. : seven
• A. only seen that version and it was great : uberp00
• subtitled : sikander
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  A. The way it was meant to be. Period. : monohydrate
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    It was meant to be watched with ugly subtitles obscuring the art at the bottom of the screen? It was mea... : Vantage
    • ^^^ best argument about this topic ever. end of discussion. : edgewise
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      Bobbing your head? Typically when I watch movies I position myself so I can see the entire screen at onc... : Stormrider
      • Your eyes can make out fine details in only a small portion of the center of their view. So often, you'l... : cheshirecat
      • moving your focus... you know what he means... : edgewise
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        You can still only focus on one part of the screen at a time. If you're focusing on subtitles at the bot... : Vantage
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          Hmm, I may take my focus off the main part of the movie for long periods of time on older movies with bur... : Stormrider
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            If they're speaking quickly, you're reading almost the entire time, unless you're a speed reader... Ameli... : edgewise
            • YES, had the same experience with Amelie : PUPSTAHS
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              Amelie is one of my favorite movies, and I don't feel I lost anything by reading the subtitles. IMO, ... : Stormrider
              • Yes, I agree. You lose more with dubbing live action movies than you do with dubbing anime. However, th... : Vantage
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          Learn to read faster than a 3 year old. I've NEVER EVER EVER had to rewind anime because I missed somethi... : TheTick
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            Learn to watch foreign movies other than cartoons anime. : edgewise
            • I do watch foreign movies other than anime. We're just discussing anime currently. Learn to understand... : TheTick
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      Compare one episode of Rurouni Kenshin (dubbed vs subtitled). They butchered the dubbed version. The su... : monohydrate
      • Kenshin is a perfect example. It also just depends on the quality of the dub-acting. Trigun was good d... : Ebu
      • I have no idea what you're talking about? I've watched more than my fair share of both anime (including ... : Vantage
• B. Its animation - no difference. : majestik
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  B, unless you want to be pretentious and pretend that you gain so much more from a movie by listening to ... : bringer
  • You didn't have that option with HDCT. : Topaz
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    You do realize that most of the time the dubbed script isn't the same as the text translation right? And... : arizona bay
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      i don't speak chinese, but i've heard from those that do that the crouching tiger dub was a better transl... : trick
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        Except Gladiator and Hunt for Red October are AMERICAN movies, which also is tangent to another point, wh... : arizona bay
        • Err, in the last paragraph, I meant I would still choose the original track (with subtitles) over the dub... : arizona bay
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          no, you said "Plus, it's the entire aesthetic of the movie, not just being pretentious. Like if you saw a : trick
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            I was demonstrating very simply how Russians speaking Japanese in a war movie would be odd. I wasn't inf... : arizona bay
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              alright, whatever. but blindly saying "what kind of question is that?" as in subs are always superior is... : trick
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                The argument in your last sentence is completely absurd. So absurd that I don't even know how to approac... : arizona bay
                • look at the cast for the mononoke dub. yeah, they're all second rate. the original performance is not... : trick
    • I've seen tons of WW2 movies where the Germans or Russians spoke English. With and without accents. Bad a... : bringer
    • I'm glad it's not a direct translation, if it's a well thought out dub, like Spirited Away's was. : edgewise
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      Yes, the dubbed translation is usually different from the subbed translation. But I wouldn't say that th... : Vantage
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        Did I say it was always better? : arizona bay
        • YES, GODDAMIT. : edgewise
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          Did I say that you did? : Vantage
          • You implied it by replying to my response. : arizona bay
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          http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=7502225 yeah, i dunno, that could be taken either way... : trick
          • Yeah, maybe it was aimed at...I dunno, maybe Spirited Away in particular since it was, after all, the top... : arizona bay
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  A. Ever since watching ghost in the shell subbed vs dubbed I can't stand dubbed. They tend to change subtle things in the script.

  May 13, 2003 10:43pm CST
  A. Ever since watching ghost in the shell subbed vs dubbed I can't stand dubbed. They tend to change su... : Draugluin
• a : karl hungus
• Only the people who haven't tried watching the dub say A. That should tell you something. : Portax
• do you speak japanese? : trick
• A. just because i like to watch a movie in it's original form. and i don't like the dialogue getting hack... : systatic
• A. I can't wait till i get to the point where I won't need subtitles. Ok back studying for my japanese fi... : d3tached
• C - watch something in my own language! : NukeDukem
• subbed, unless you wan to jus thave it in the background. It just feels more like the movie they intende... : vispilio
• Subbed it shall be. I watched all the Cowboy Bebop episodes subbed and when I see it on Adult Swim dubbed... : z1armedman
• A: Most english dubs are terrible, and the voice actors suck. only idiots can't read fast enough to enj... : The_FrO
• A. Watch both and see how much really changes. The dub they tell you shit way to early, or sometimes comp... : idolminds
• A always.. always : jaga
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  wow, the shack is full of pretentious people! I'm surprised! : DonkeyPopsicle
  • well some people like to eat on the floor, that's true : jaga
• always sub'd never dub'd : locobastard
• b : esky
• 日本語の勉強してバカヤロー！ : beebeecee