subtitled vs. dubbed films

[Tony D'Amato]

People in Europe like france,spain and germany dubbed all films that comes out and people who what too see there movie subtitled has to realy look. I have the good fortune being born in Sweden, I don't know why but Sweden,Norway, Denmark and maybe Finland has never dubbed there movies exepct for kid movies like Space Jam.

It was funny too see Bill Murray talk Swedish.

 

[MarcusX]

Here in germany, everything is dubbed. Mostly it's pretty well done but sometimes they mess up dialogs, especially jokes. What really bothers me is that the voices are to "clean", no ambient noise, no dialect. When I see some really good movie, I watch it again in english language.

 

[KingVidiot]

Actually both, but if I'm feeling tired or watching with impatient people, I'll go dubbed. It's actually amusing a lot of the time to go between the versions and see how inflection can be all messed up and how bad voice talent can be.

Subtitles are usually the way to go to get the real feel for the piece. However in many action movies, you need to re-watch a scene or two (or the whole thing) to make sure you get everything. I often learn new vocabulary in different languages (that I already know) from watching the subtitled version.