Do you still need English subtitles when you watch an English movie?

When I watch a movie, I prefer to hide the subtitles of the movie. Because I find it very distracting and can always catch my attention. And lost my focus in the movie. But if I watch movies other than English, like for example a non-english movie of jackie chan or jet li, I would enable the subtitle so that I can read what they're saying and understand it.

I also love watching English with subtitles especially musical because I can sing. You're friend is right their some movie character eat their words. Like British accents. The problem is your reading and you cannot catch up the movie because your attention is on the subtitle. Right?

I love the subtitle button, if I'm watching a movie I'll put it on there just because I can't turn it up too loud. Plus, I taught my son how to read with the subtitle feature, he would watch cartoons as a little kid and he would sit in front of the television so I just thought it would be nice for him to know what they were saying. When he started to read at age two and carry on conversations I knew he was gifted with gab and reading stuff on tv helped him.

Yes I find some actors tend to mumble, so I do use the subtitles more often now. And there are times with the added music, their mumbling is even worse.

My boyfriend does the same thing, he wont watch a movie without the subtitles. I dont know why, he gets so mad if the subtitles are not available. That is weird why do they do that

Practically speaking in most of the movies I don't need subtitles but in some movies when some dialogues are hazy or unclear or buried under debris of other noise and if anyone in the movie speaking so fast that I can't catch it (cuz my mother tongue is not english) then I need subtitles.

I've been doing the same thing with my TV that my grandpa gave me in 2001. I never watch TV or movies without either Closed Captioning, or with English subtitles. Sometimes I can't understand what people are saying on TV, so I always turn on closed captions or subtitles so that I can understand what they're saying clearly. I just love watching TV or movies with any type of subtitling so that I can have an easier time understanding and grasping what's going on when I watch something.

Hi zhaychel, Unless the cast is speaking too fast about non-obvious, non-straight forward topics, I am usually fine, assuming they don't have strong accents. But if there are subtitles anyway, I tend to read them anyway. I agree with what your friend said - some people eat their words while speaking lol.

When I watch the House, MD marathon, we would turn on the subtitle in English because the terms are quite medical. I believe your friend has a point in telling out that some of the terms are garbled.

I always watch DVD's with the subtitles on if they have them. I started doing this after I had my son. When we would watch movies, I would always miss something because my son was making noise in the room or something and we would always have to rewind. Sometimes, I do have trouble understanding what some people say and sometimes movies have really quiet dialogue and really LOUD noises so rather than have the volume up really loud, I turn subtitles on. They don't bother me one bit and don't take away from the experience. Some people say that subtitles are distracting, but I think being able to read subtitles without being distracted by them is a skill that you have to learn.

While I do not as such need Translation for English Movies; due to the fact that I am not a native English Speaker ; subtitles help in understanding finer accent variations in an English Movie and we do not skip on any important dialog . regards

I still like to have english subtitle when i watch english movie inorder to understand easily what they are talking for their words spoken that are not clear to hear. However their are also times that i dont want subtitle for the subtitle make more complicated to read for it does not correspond to what they speak in the movie. The grammar and the spelling are all wrong.

if it has an unclear English accent (like 'pride and prejudice') i would prefer to have a subtitle but if it is in American accent(though i'm not an American) i don't want subtitles on it 'cause it just distracts me..'cause whenever there's a subtitle, i can't help myself but to look at it even though i understand the audio..

Dear zhaychel, Normally I don't. However, if those English movies with strong accents like the British and Australian, it will be good to have subtitle do confirm what they are saying. This is definitely a plus point especially those movies that required us to listen very carefully to the conversations in order to understand the plot and the twist of the story Normally DVDs will have subtitles even though it is an English movie. My husband like it very much! Cheers and do keep in touch!

SHe's not the only one.. I'm the same too.. hehe ^_^ BEcause in asia countries, most of us are not taught the real proper way of speaking english, and though we do speak, but it's more to our accent.. THus when we are watching english movies, the accent and pronounciation is completely different, and they do talk real fast.. lol =D Thus i need subtitles to catch up on what the whole movie is abbout.. hehe

I do still need English subtitles when I watch English movies or any movies types. This because sometimes hard to hear clearly and understand what the actor are talking. The subtitles also helps when there noise around while watching the movie. I have to pay full attention if I watch movies without subtitles.

I have to leave English subtitles on the screen because English is not my native language and this is way how I learn English whenever I watch movie in English.But as for this question,I would prefer to have subtitles on even with movie in my native language,wouldn't you believe that you may get the meaning of the dialogue more easily and quickly and correctly with subtitles on,beyond,it is also a good ease of your hearing especially when you watch a drama film.

I also have the subtitles on. Cuz as your friend said some really eat up the words

My mother language is Chinese not english,so i need english subtitle when i watch english moive .I won't need it if it's Chinese movie .Of course,sometimes the movie contains a lot of cold jokes,it's hard to understand,watch it with subtitle would be helpful.

Hi zhaychel, I need English subtitles with no exception. It actually helps to understand a conversation exactly. Your friend is right, i too clearly don't understand some dialogues by some actors. Some voice might be husky, its where subtitles help me a lot.