greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I watched District 9 without subtitles.
I did the same with The Wolverine. I thought the non-subtitled Japanese parts were an impressive artistic choice. I didn’t need to know what they were saying because they acted the hell out of those scenes.
It wasn’t until the lengthy flashbacks that I started to suspect something wasn’t right.
This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.
We did this to the Arrival, too.
the first subtitles are almost at the very end of the movie, so it was too late to bother. Also, most of us watched it before, but man was it a letdown.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Any necessary subs should be hard coded.
Ostrakon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, it’s better to have them decoupled. For example, let’s say you’re trying to watch The Godfather in French, you wouldn’t want the scenes in Italy to have hardcoded English subs.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Or if you happen to understand the language in question too (not quite relevant to District 9, but for human languages).