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That's a fair point. As an American, we kinda just expect English by the default. But for the rare movie or show worth watching, I can set that aside. I love
by silisili 2y ago
That's a fair point. As an American, we kinda just expect English by the default. But for the rare movie or show worth watching, I can set that aside. I loved Squid Game. Shame they never made a second season(/s, don't remind me!)
That said most of the time I have the TV on I'm doing something else, and watch/listen in passing, so audio is really important. The dubbing on most movies is so, so bad. 60 year old gruff men sounding like a kid, everyone having the same weird enthusiastic tone, etc. The worst is the distancing, everyone sounds like they're talking directly into a mic despite where the camera is.
I really wish they'd invest more into the dubbing process, a well dubbed movie or show is completely watchable to me. And given the growing corpus of foreign content, I think it's a necessity. It's just so rare I usually don't even bother trying anymore.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoSquid game has a second season
- xethos 2y agoNext you'll try to tell us they made more than on Matrix movie
- wkat4242 2y agoYeah that's why I prefer subtitles. Dubs are usually very substandard. Though I think AI might change that soon. Some people find subtitles distracting but where I grew up all foreign content had them (including all English content) and they're just natural to me. I prefer this over dubbing because it never sounds as good as the original voice track.
- soco 2y agoAnd keeping the original voice track keeps the original feeling - if something is Japanese it should also sound Japanese to properly immerse you in it, right? But if the TV just runs in the background it doesn't even matter what is running, you won't actually pay attention, don't actually need immersion, so any garbage will do.
- trilbyglens 2y agoThat always on-passive TV consumption thing is also not something that most Europeans do.