I started using subtitles to watch movies with my wife, who used to have trouble understanding American English. I’ve become so used to them that I use them on

I started using subtitles to watch movies with my wife, who used to have trouble understanding American English. I’ve become so used to them that I use them on my own now. Could be a combination of: - Degraded hearing - Degraded audio comprehension, relying on the text - Realising how much I was missing, just due to bad audio mixing or low quality TV speakers - Getting over the ‘annoyance’ of having text pop up on screen & being able to view both the subject & text at once. I watched Top Gun (new) with my dad, he has a sound-bar setup and a HUGE TV. I honestly couldn’t understand 50% of the dialogue, and when I asked him to enable the subtitles he refused and said I should get my hearing checked. So I started asking him “what did they say?”, and to his surprise, half the time he couldn’t actually tell me what the actors were saying. It’s a mix of issues. I think that movie had horrible audio mastering and maybe a lot of media does these days too.