Do you find subtitles to movies distracting?  

yes it happened.. sometimes you cant avoid but to read those subtitle. specially if your watching none english movie you really cant avoid but to read the subtitle just to understand what going on with the movie. though subtitle also help a lot specially if the movie looks like interesting but i prefer if they can translate it in english instead of using those subtitle coz its very distracting.

They are distracting if you can understand the language as you eye can't help but look and read them. Occasionally, the subtitles slightly differ from the actual words, only maybe one word has changed, but when you have heard and understood to see it written slightly different on the subtitles can be very irritating as you momentarily forget the scene.

I don't mind. I like reading subtitle, but it become unbearable when there are three subtitle at the same time. But I get used to it already, so I'm ok now. Happy Mylotting

I don't find subtitle that much of a bother. On those English movies that I have watched and had the subtitles on for various reasons I haven't found them distracting. Plus on those movies which are in a foreign language I usually find that I can understand what is happening by watching the movie and only occassionaly reading the sub titles. Personally for me if I am watching a movie which requires me to really study the subtitles then the chances are the movie is not that great as it should be able to visually tell the story rather than rely purely on dialogue.

I like subtitles. Especially if the actor has poor speech delivery and you can't understand a word he says, which seems to be more and more often. Most of the movies I watch have a lot of critical dialogue, so it's necessary to know what the conversation is.

I'd actually prefer subtitles than a direct audio translation. There always something about listening to a foreign language in its original incarnation; it's just me maybe.

Definitely yws, because my brain tends to automatically reads printed words. This is not that distracting but for the fact that most subtitles tend to be inaccurate, or displayed at the wrong moment. So what the eyes see and hear are not synchronised. This takes away the concentration and enjoyment of watching a movie.

Ideally they should produce televisions and decoders with the ability to filter out subtitles whenever we want to watch movies without any distraction.

No, I like to watch foriegn movies with subtitles. I enjoy them. I just think that some of the films that come from a different country usually have a little different spin to them, a different style.
The part about that I don't like about subtitles is when the beginning and end of the sentences of what the characters are saying are cut off. I got to make sense of what's going on more. And the other negative thing about subs would be when the sentence is super long and only shows on the screen for a few seconds. Makes me wonder are they really saying all that, or they just talking super fast? Anyhoo, happy mylotting!!

Sure the subtitles can be a little distracting but I personally love watching foreign films because every different country has their own style of filming. There are a lot of great movies that are in languages I am not fluent in and they are still some of my favorites. For example I'm a Cyborg, but it's okay and Pan's Labyrinth.

for me i couldn't manage without them, i'm not deaf but do struggle to hear, and keeping up with whats being said is very hard work. If i didn't have the sub titles i'd miss so much it wouldn't be worth watching. I don't bother even trying to watch a movie if it's without subtitles.You learn not to let them interfere too much with the viewing, for me they are back up.