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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2009, 04:11:51 am »
Has no one else every seen The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?  Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were the only two people in the movie speaking English.  The rest were Italians lipsynching with crappy southwestern voices.

The effect is hit or miss, based on how close the actors get to the words, and how well the dub is spoken.

By contrast, Enter the Dragon and such like it were, I think, marred by how poorly everything linked up.  I don't have a problem with dubbing, since these days virtually everything in movies is recorded asynchronously and matched up in looping later.  What I don't like is lack of quality work.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2009, 05:03:32 am »
Anyone here ever watch Polonia or TV Polska or whatever that Polish satellite station was is called? They use a single guy to dub everything - males, females, kids, you name it. Worst part is, he uses a bored monotonous voice all the time.

Anyway, I generally prefer subtitles. Voice tone better matches facial expression when both belong to the same actor.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2009, 10:07:48 am »
In regards to anime, dubbing these days have improved some.

I still prefer subbing, fansubbing to be precise.  Fans tend to make better translations.  Companies change it for the western audience, to appeal to the lowest common denominator...
A stigma from the olden days.

Who here remembers the days of yore... Back when, a lot of voice acting were just horrible, they just read the script.  They don't do their job, which is voice act.  Monotone and boring crap.
Something that easily turns off dumb kids, like I was back then... if it were not for the stuff like Akira and Vampire Hunter D...

I suppose it was a saving grace for me that I watched Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya in Cantonese...  I can say their dubs were light ages ahead of the english dubs....   plus, I watched all that shit before Toonami even existed.  Beat that.  (I was so disappointed by english dub of DBZ and SM...)   :'(

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing... watched that subbed... a fine introduction to the world of subbing.  Thanks to chinatown... 

...  The chinese are the pirates before the online pirates... come to think of it...
Chinatown, great stuff.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2009, 11:47:30 am »
I learned English from subtitles. Beat that!

Dubbing sounds horrible to me.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2009, 12:17:56 pm »
I also hate dubbing.. by the way, ever watched Cartoon Network or Disney Channel dubbed from english to danish? yes, it's bad, in a bad way.
If they subbed it, it would not be so bad, but certain things they transate horribly when subbed,
so when they dub them, it gets worse. 
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« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2009, 12:42:42 pm »
There was this one time where I watched some Kung Fu movie with both the Dubs and the subtitles on at the same time.  It was really disorienting.

Generally speaking, I prefer something with subtitles, even when the dubbing was really good.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2009, 12:43:26 pm »
Good dubs are good, bad dubs are bad and subtitles are good.

If it's my first time watching something in a foreign language I would rather be introduced to it in subtitles.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2009, 01:02:43 pm »
Quote from: cerapa on July 03, 2009, 11:47:30 am
I learned English from subtitles. Beat that!

Dubbing sounds horrible to me.
Yeah, that's a great reason for preferring subtitles. I too learned English from movies, and I also learned some phrases in a lot of languages thanks to subtitles.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2009, 02:12:03 pm »
Wait, what?

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I'm one of those hardcore people who hate everything dubbed.

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It seems to me like the ones who are more paranoid and close minded are the ones who hate dubs so much.

Oh well, anyway, I'd mostly agree.  It can be more natural to have (good) English dubs if the talking is fastpaced, but generally when I watch foreign language movies (mainly French ones) I prefer subtitles (it was funny watching the subtitles change the words to fit a French grammar joke.  Heh).
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2009, 02:19:33 pm »
I mixed Dubbing with Subbing in an earlier post.

I've never heard good Dubbing of Full Moon. Only good Fansubbing
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2009, 02:33:42 pm »
4kids sucks.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2009, 02:34:35 pm »
That is not the point ToonyMan.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2009, 02:35:18 pm »
Dubbing by 4kids sucks.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2009, 02:35:39 pm »
Quote from: ToonyMan on July 04, 2009, 02:35:18 pm
Dubbing by 4kids sucks.
I thought they edited and remade as opposed to dubbed.
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Re: Do you like dubbing?
« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2009, 02:36:14 pm »
They dub it too.

It's not in its orignal language, is it?
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