I watch them with the original language enabling subtitles instead, as for example: watching Korean movies dubbed into English (also with bad lip sync) is just weird in my opinion but I know a few people who do this for various reasons: hate how the original language is spoken, or dislikes the audio (due to accent) so they dub them in English, however the cultural nuance is gone since the original audio language conveys what is intended to be expressed.
I watch everything with subtitles, foreign or not.
Same, I got tired of rewinding and turning on subs just to figure out what someone mumbled in a scene.
Always subtitles.
The dubs NEVER seem to match what I think the person is gonna sound like. It’s so distracting.
dubbing just puts me off? can’t explain it
Feels disrespectful
Subtitles.
Subtitles. Even with the best voice actors, something gets lost with dubs. They just never seem to capture the flow and emotion of the original audio. I also like to hear how things sound in other languages, even if I don’t understand the language at all.
Subtitled in whatever language I’m currently learning.
Subtitles, dubbed live action doesn’t work for me.
Dub is acceptable for some types of animation where translation also adapts it to local culture. And I’d still have subtitles enabled at the same time.
I’m staunchly sub-over-dub, but I’m not anti-dub. A good dub is a piece of art, it’s just a different piece of art than the original work. Dubbing is very difficult to do right, especially for live action. It takes good writing to match the lip flaps, good acting to match the facial expressions, and good sound design to match the scene. Anyone can stick a couple bored actors in a studio and record a terrible audio track that sorta conveys the necessary information, but I wouldn’t call that dubbing.
I really dislike dubs with celebrity film actors. Film acting is much more focused on screen presence, but there’s nothing to see with a dub. A stage actor is generally a much better voice actor, because on stage you have to act so the people in the back can hear your emotions. Picking a big name just shows a lack of respect for the art of dubbing in my opinion, and it doesn’t bode well for every other facet of the quality.
Dub.
The vast majority of acting is done through relaying emotions through voice.
I dislike dubbing and always have, subtitles all the way. I’m kinda put off by the [eight seconds of mouth moving] mismatch. It’s also rarely done where I live, except for children’s media. To top it off, it has to be insanely much more work and a lot more expensive. I realize there are relative niche cases where it could be necessary, though.
It depends on if it’s animated or not.
If it’s animated, I can go either way, but if I start it as one of them I don’t switch to the other.
If it’s live action it’s subs all the way.
Subs except for a few I have nostalgia for the dubbed version I watched when I was younger
For animations: dubs
Live scion: subs unless it’s Jackie Chan doing his own dub.
Live scion
Dude’s over here watching plant cuttings.
Action.
Autocorrect 😂
This is the redeeming exception to dubbing:
He stole the idea from Woody Allen.
“What’s Up, Tiger Lily?” was a Japanese spy movie that Allen brought cheap and dubbed into English.
Allen had told the distributor that he could make a successful picture for half of what they normally paid. He got the movie for almost nothing, and then spent most of the money creating a big ad campaign.
It did well, and got Allen a chance to direct bigger movies.
No offense to you for pointing this out, but fuck him and his vacuous comedy farce. Stolen idea or not, Viénet’s use of appropriation has merit far beyond old 'woody fuck a child’s self aggrandizing theft.
Edit to add: I would even argue that Epstein’s buddy Woody was merely feeding the idea of detournament, taken from the Situationists of the 50s, back into the capitalist machine like a well trained lackey, offering a simulacrum that was both de-fanged and profitable.
I didn’t know Woody and Jeff were pals.
TIL
