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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by vlunkr on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:49AM (#29418637)
Same. I started turning on subtitles because of noisy kids, but now I have them on most of the time. I hear lots of people say they are distracting or they ruin comedic or dramatic timing, but you quickly get used to it. You learn to read them only when you need to.
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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by yurishimo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:14PM (#29420027)
Yeah, you definitely get used to it. I still laugh at a lot of things and I think it's a good way to broaden your watch choices significantly because it opens up foreign films/tv.

Netflix has been slowly pushing more international content in the US as many of Americans are starting to become more comfortable with reading subtitles.

I do think there is some room for improvement though in that subtitles should absolutely have standardized options for how they display on screen. Some people really like the yellow, others find that much more distracting compared to a bold white lettering on a semi-opaque black background. Let the viewer decide which one they are most comfortable with unless you have some specific art directed reason why they need to be formatted a certain way.

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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by brokenmachine on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:17PM (#29424941)
I can't help it, I always cheat and ruin it for myself by reading before they've finished saying the line. :-)

I should try delaying the subtitles so I can only read things that I've missed.

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