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Stewball wrote:The same outcome is equally as possible for either format, and as easy or difficult to post corrections for. If dubbing is the more popular format in a given location, I'm sure the "fandubbers" would rule with the exposes.


From technical point of view you're right. But as it happened in formentioned example for many years nobody realised that translation is bullshit until subbed version was released. Because who watches dub and original version back to back to compare translations? While watching with subs I'll miss some small details being wrongly translated from languages I'm not fluent in, but I can easily spot a completely made up translation in a range of languages and walk out of cinema/throw dvd to the trash without wasting my time.

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And yet another topic went down the drainage. I'm gonna watch this one next week in the cinema. These last few years I've been going to cinema 2-3 times annualy each time for a scifi, guess it's becoming a pattern.

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FarCryss wrote:A conservative American who prefers not to watch foreign films with subtitles? Not surprising.


A liberal American making broad, foolish assumptions? Not surprising.

I'm a "conservative" (libertarian, to be precise) who watches a bunch of foreign films with subtitles. Nice to meet you.

FarCryss wrote: No use trying to convince you otherwise, I guess, though you are missing out on a lot of amazing movies. I would also consider YOU to be the snob, because as far as I'm concerned, snobbery is linked to principled exclusion, and this is a Grade A case of principled exclusion on your part.


I have ragged on Stewie as much as anyone for his avoidance of subtitled foreign films, but I will say this much for him. There are so many movies made throughout history, that even if one only watches Hollywood and dubbed foreign pictures, there are more good films than can be watched in one lifetime.

So yeah, he is missing out on a lot of masterpieces. But we will all miss out when we're dead, too, and haven't seen another 1,000 good movies out there.

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td888 wrote: You are seriously missing out on some fantastic movies. It's like refusing to go to foreign restaurants because you can't read the menu. The food can still be enjoyed....

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I was asked so I answered. As Shogun pointed out, I've been through this before here and I haven't changed since. If it's a flaw, I guess I'm flawed and will just have to suffer through it--and now I'm going to have to stop going to my favorite, Italian, French, Mexican, Thai, Indian, Chinese, and Moroccan restaurants what with all the taste-bud subtitles. At least that relieves me from being a snob about not liking Vietnamese food. And for the record I'm also a libertarian, and a recovering liberal. Jimmy Carter, for whom I voted....twice :oops: ....was the primary impetus for my salvation from the Democrat Party who I foolishly thought weren't racists and had the people's interests at heart. :lol:

Sorry about the digression.

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Oh, okay, you're a really old retiree that lives in the god-fearing state of Arizona. Things are starting to make sense now.
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ShogunRua wrote:
FarCryss wrote:A conservative American who prefers not to watch foreign films with subtitles? Not surprising.


A liberal American making broad, foolish assumptions? Not surprising.

I'm a "conservative" (libertarian, to be precise) who watches a bunch of foreign films with subtitles. Nice to meet you.


Oh, I've met you before. You hate on Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner shorts because they don't send a positive message to the kids. We are arch-enemies. :D

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luke9 wrote:
FarCryss wrote:snobbery is linked to principled exclusion


No, it's not. With that logic, you could argue that anybody who's ever refused to watch a movie for any reason whatsoever is a snob.

There's a difference between thinking "Eh, this movie doesn't look enjoyable, I probably won't watch it" and ideological refusal. While I have my preferences like everyone else, I tend to enjoy talking about movies with someone who is willing to watch anything, rather than someone who confines themselves to a certain "type" of movie, be it by language or country or genre or whatever.

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I don't recall any subtitles or dubbing in Gravity, so...

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ShogunRua wrote:Style and substance are completely separate entities


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FarCryss wrote:Oh, okay, you're a really old retiree that lives in the god-fearing state of Arizona. Things are starting to make sense now.


Once again you don't know what you're talking about on several counts. It's getting to be a habit. As a native of Georgia and having been stationed in Air Force in diverse locations in the country, I can testify that Arizona isn't even in the Bible belt; and neither is it a socialist Mecca that the Northeast or West Coast are. Further, I'm not a believer in any revealed religion, and while I'm not as old as you think I am, I am probably older than you, but in either case so what? You're fishing for something personal to glom onto 'cause that's all you got.

I'll let my alter ego tie this off:



As he tells the punk before he heaves him off the train, "Ya got no class".

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