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Re:Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-he... by avidiax on Friday April 25, 2025 @07:18PM (#43799387)
Sometimes the sound can be offscreen, e.g.:

[Window breaking]

[Gun cocking]

[Stairs creaking]

Re:Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-he... by stevage on Friday April 25, 2025 @07:59PM (#43799628)
Yeah those make sense to me, because they're part of the plot.

The weird ones for me are where some absolutely unintelligible background murmuring is subtitled. I couldn't tell that any actual words had been spoken and suddenly it's all spelt out.

Re:Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-he... by conartist6 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:01AM (#43831406)
yeah I totally get it for moments like that where something that you can only hear is critical to understanding what's going on in the movie, but they never seemed to care much about making those kinds of artistic judgements