Dubbed foreign movies

[Sooga]

When you get a DVD of a foreign movie (in a foreign language), do you listen to the original language track with subtitles, or the dubbed English track? I found out yesterday that a couple of my friends watch the dubbed tracks and I was stunned. I always listen to the original track. Sure, you can't understand what the hell they're saying, but there's a certain emotion and tone that original tracks have that dubbed tracks rarely get right.

[kerssens]

I would only listen to the dubbed version for the sake of comedy.

[Brainwalter]

For Das Boot original. For Fists of Fury dubbed. Depends on the movie.

[DasLeben]

Always original. I was in a group of people that were watching Run, Lola, Run dubbed, and I about puked.

[RacersEdge]

I would probably not watch a movie with subtitles. I just find it very visually irritating.

[gulebjorn]

You know they dub all american and english movies in France and Germany... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[swede123]

Always original track, of course. The cool thing about certain Euro countries, such as Sweden, is that they don't dub non-Swedish movies. Of course I still shudder when I think back to the time when Swedish cable bought the Simpsons and started showing it, dubbed to [censored] Swedish. Let me tell you, nothing ruins the comedy of the Simpsons more than Homer Simpson speaking Swedish.

Swede

[Fabian]

Thank god that didn't last for too long.

Also, thank god we don't dub our movies.

[Sooga]

Now that I think back, the only movie I didn't watch in its original audio track was 'Spirited Away', for two reasons: 1) it's animated, so there wouldn't be much lost in the transation, and 2) the dubbed voices were 'name' actors/actresses (Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly, David Ogden Stiers, etc).

[AsiaKurosawa]

I almost always watch subtitles, except for kungfu action flicks where I hate missing all the hard work the actors are doing when I scan the subtitles.