How do you watch movies?

[Sven]

? People that turn on subtitles?

Watching a film with subtitles when the film is in your native language. Like if I were to watch The Bourne Identity with English subtitles. Soooo irritating. I watched Shaun of the Dead with subtitles with my old roommate once and it just about killed the movie for me.

[Ezee E]

Watching a film with subtitles when the film is in your native language. Like if I were to watch The Bourne Identity with English subtitles. Soooo irritating. I watched Shaun of the Dead with subtitles with my old roommate once and it just about killed the movie for me.

Some British movies need subtitles though. I completely agree with you otherwise

[D_Davis]

I watch movies in English with subs quite often -when it's late and I need to keep the volume low. Now big deal. I don't understand how this would ruin a movie.

[Qrazy]

Watching a film with subtitles when the film is in your native language. Like if I were to watch The Bourne Identity with English subtitles. Soooo irritating. I watched Shaun of the Dead with subtitles with my old roommate once and it just about killed the movie for me.

Yeah... I dunno I agree it's certainly less immersive but for heavily accented Irish/British films sometimes it's a godsend.

Ah beat to the punch... I second Davis low volume comments too.

Anyway espesh for someone like Mara who seems to have some auditory difficulties... subtitles just preserve meaning and therefore aid enjoyment/understanding of the film. My primary intake is foreign films and I don't feel like I lose that much tonally with subs on (of course bearing in mind poor translation issues).

[SirNewt]

Try watching a film with English subtitles superimposed over Chinese calligraphy.



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[Benny Profane]

When at home, its on either a decently sized TV or my laptop.

So you're at home, with a TV and a computer, and there are times you choose the laptop over the TV?

Only time I'll ever watch a DVD on a computer is if I'm traveling.

[balmakboor]

So you're at home, with a TV and a computer, and there are times you choose the laptop over the TV?

Only time I'll ever watch a DVD on a computer is if I'm traveling.

I had an interesting experience with this. My TV isn't all that big (27") and I sit about 8-10 feet away. I'd watched Playtime a number of times under those conditions. Then I popped it into my computer and watched it with my face 1-2 feet away from my 18" monitor and saw things in almost ever shot I'd never seen before. I can't imagine what a theater screen and 70mm would do for it.

[Doclop]

I mostly watch movies in theaters or if it's for work, on my computer. When I do get around to watching something at home, it's on my roommate's nice HD TV or on my 20 inch in my room. If it's a movie I haven't seen or really respect and love, I'll want to watch it in complete silence, mostly because I hate creating associations to particular scenes in movies with whatever's happening around me, not because I'm afraid of interruption or distraction.

[balmakboor]

I mostly watch movies in theaters or if it's for work, on my computer. When I do get around to watching something at home, it's on my roommate's nice HD TV or on my 20 inch in my room. If it's a movie I haven't seen or really respect and love, I'll want to watch it in complete silence, mostly because I hate creating associations to particular scenes in movies with whatever's happening around me, not because I'm afraid of interruption or distraction.

If I required total silence to watch a movie, I'd never watch anything at home. I watched Zodiac last night and had my silence interrupted by my wife reminding me to call a plumber, my daughter (who was also watching) asking me her usual "what's going on?" type questions, my dogs barking when the neighbors came home, and a cat fight that suddenly erupted in my lap. (We own six cats. This is a common occurance.)

[MadMan]

So you're at home, with a TV and a computer, and there are times you choose the laptop over the TV?

Only time I'll ever watch a DVD on a computer is if I'm traveling.

It actually depends at times if my DVD player is working. And sometimes I don't mind watching it on the laptop. My TV isn't really that big so its not much of a difference.

[Qrazy]

Try watching a film with English subtitles superimposed over Chinese calligraphy.



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I hate white subs without borders... I'm looking at you Persona VHS.

[Qrazy]

It actually depends at times if my DVD player is working. And sometimes I don't mind watching it on the laptop. My TV isn't really that big so its not much of a difference.

Sometimes I just prefer watching a film in my room in bed to watching in the living room with roommate and randoms around making stupid comments about arthouse films.

[Grouchy]

If I required total silence to watch a movie, I'd never watch anything at home. I watched Zodiac last night and had my silence interrupted by my wife reminding me to call a plumber, my daughter (who was also watching) asking me her usual "what's going on?" type questions, my dogs barking when the neighbors came home, and a cat fight that suddenly erupted in my lap. (We own six cats. This is a common occurance.)

I want to watch Zodiac while a catfight erupts in my lap. Actually, I just want a catfight erupting in my lap. Right now.

[Yxklyx]

I watch movies on a 34" Widescreen CRT TV from a couch about 6 feet away. I've got the TV's sound connected to an amplifier and from there to two 1'x2' speakers at the far corners of the room.

On a couple of occasions I've watched a movie on my ~20" flat screen computer monitor using Netflix' Watch It Now feature.

I've also connected my TV to my computer in the past so I can in theory watch movies with Watch It Now on my TV but the cabling logistics is a pain since the computer and TV are in different rooms.

I will almost always watch a movie in one sitting but I might pause it briefly to get some food.

P.S. I don't watch at work or while commuting (i.e. biking).

[SirNewt]

Sometimes I just prefer watching a film in my room in bed to watching in the living room with roommate and randoms around making stupid comments about arthouse films.

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