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View Poll Results: Dubbed Audio or Subtitles?
Dubbed Audio 1 6.67%
Subtitles 14 93.33%
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:02 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-09-2011, 12:00 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Godzilla movies are the only movies i feel are better dubbed
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Old 12-09-2011, 12:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-09-2011, 12:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-09-2011, 12:57 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
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!
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I think this poll needs the option "Subtitles, unless I plan on falling asleep to the movie".
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Old 12-09-2011, 01:08 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I think this poll needs the option "Subtitles, unless I plan on falling asleep to the movie".


Or ""Subtitles, unless I plan on folding laundry, paying bills, etc. while watching the movie"
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Old 12-09-2011, 01:10 PM   #9 (permalink)
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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':

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Old 12-09-2011, 01:16 PM   #10 (permalink)
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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!
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.
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