Dubbed Audio or Subtitles
 

After watching numerous foreign movies and Jap cartoons, I have come to the conclusion that I prefer the media to be in their original voice acting, even if I don't understand the language.

Dubbing just feels wrong, somewhat. Unless it's unintentionally hilarious or departs from the original dailogue, like that Woody Allen dub - Tiger Lily what what what

So what say you, MB?

I agree with you. It's very hard for me to take a dubbed movie seriously, which maybe isn't so big a deal for some action movies, but for anything else it can really kill the experience.

Godzilla movies are the only movies i feel are better dubbed :)

Very very rarely do I ever watch something with dubbed voices, in fact I can't really think of an example of when I would, except like bob said, when it's done for humor. I don't mind reading subtitles, I don't find it distracts me too much from the movie, in fact I think I actually follow the movie better when I'm forced to read along as well. If an anime has hired professional English voice actors like in Cowboy Bebop I'll watch them, but I don't really know if that's dubbing or a minor re imagining.

I would say dubbed if they were properly done, but 99% of the time it is awful.

Sometimes I have subtitles and the dub on at the same time to compare. Yes, I am a lunatic.

Interestingly, Cowboy Bebop is the only thing that comes to mind where I prefer the Dubbed to the Subbed. I think you're right with the professional actor lark - a lot of effort obviously went into the dubbing of that, and it's also a more Western concept and feel than a Japanese one, so the Japanese voices sound weird...

I think generally a film or an animation is made for the culture that made it, so the voices that suit best are the voices of that culture... Subbed all the way!

I think this poll needs the option "Subtitles, unless I plan on falling asleep to the movie".

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Or ""Subtitles, unless I plan on folding laundry, paying bills, etc. while watching the movie"

I couldn't ever imagine somebody properly dubbing a park chan-wook film. With anime I'll be lenient in the rare case the dub is good(which is rare, and I watch very very little anime so eh...)

Albeit, I adore American films that purposely redub themselves horribly in order to masquerade as foreign films. IE. The classic 'Enter the Ninja':

You raise an interesting point that I never thought of, that being that Cowboy Bebop is a more western styled show. I don't know why I never thought about that, I guess because it didn't really feel foreign my mind never made the association. I felt the same with the steam punk anime Steamboy, but I think that's more because it was kind of weird to see a movie set in 19th century England with people speaking Japanese.

If I watch a more Japanese based anime like Slayers or Full Metal Alchemist I'll use the subtitled option because the dubbing just feels off.