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If you're going to watch the film for the first time, which you should as its awesome, don't watch the dubbed version. Make sure you watch it with subtitles.
by ptrincr 11y ago
If you're going to watch the film for the first time, which you should as its awesome, don't watch the dubbed version. Make sure you watch it with subtitles.
- Wildgoose 11y agoThat pretty much goes for any movie or anime, I would say. One exception would be the English version of the childrens show "Magic Roundabout" which I believe was originally a French political satire. The English version just watched the show and then made up a story to go along with what was happening on screen. I presume Zebedee was meant to be a caricature of de Gaulle but if I am mistaken I am sure somebody will correct me. :-)
- aninhumer 11y agoMy understanding is that it's true that the English version was not based on the original script, but the original French was still just a children's show.
- anc84 11y agoSome of the Ghibli movies are dubbed wonderfully.
- fennecfoxen 11y ago> That pretty much goes for any movie or anime, I would say. The possible exception would be Steins;Gate; I contend that the mad-scientist ranting sounds better in your native tongue. (I am aware of the position that it's somewhat less authentic and will concede that the English version of Mayuuri's tu-tu-ruu is of lower quality.)
- stordoff 11y agoI'm generally not too bothered about sub. v. dub, but for some reason I find Steins;Gate in English to be really jarring. Not sure why, but I feel like the voices don't really fit the characters in the dubbed version.
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- aninhumer 11y agoEven if you don't understand the language, it's not just unintelligible sounds. There is emotion in the original delivery which is often lost in the dubbing process. I haven't seen the GitS dub, so I can't comment on it specifically, but I've yet to hear a dub that doesn't sound completely wooden. Even ones that other people recommend as good examples invariably have that one clunky line in ten that I find very distracting.
- jessaustin 11y agoThe GitS dub is so bad that particular horrible lines are burned into my permanent memory. I haven't watched the dub in at least a decade, and I still remember the scene on the boat where the Major says, "I feel confined, only FREE to expand myself within boundaries." The translation is clunky, but the reading should have disqualified the voice talent from ever working again.
- ionised 11y ago> Even if you don't understand the language, it's not just unintelligible sounds. There is emotion in the original delivery which is often lost in the dubbing process. This is exactly why I always watch them with original dubbing.