Bothered by English dubs

[mtbc]

Yesterday I watched T-34 (2018), a tank battle movie set in WWⅡ. It features some slow-motion computer-assisted views of tanks firing shells at each other and, by means of an increasingly silly plot, appears constructed to make Russians feel good which, given Three Seconds (2017), may be how one does well at their box offices these days. Despite being simple and predictable it makes for moderately engaging fun if one overlooks the probably unintended daftness.

A few years ago here I mentioned how,

Though my hearing is good I have always found it a little challenging to decode sounds into human speech; in noisy rooms I often watch interlocutors' lips.

The DVD of T-34 offered only English audio for the Russian actors which rather disappointed me. I came to realize that I may find this so bothersome partly because it is my habit to watch actors' lips so perhaps it is doubly obvious to me that the audio is simply not fitting. At least the Germans retained their German audio.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Oh, that would suck for a lip reader! We use the close captions all the time because Pat is 80% deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other. He also does not wear his hearing aids at home. I don't mind the closed captions at all, and that way I'm not having to tell him what they just said. (grin)

[mtbc]

It also helps me when family talks over the show, I can read it and not miss anything!