dumbing down subtitles... really?

[thwak is T.hawk]

POSSIBLE LET THE RIGHT ONE IN SPOILERS! IF YOU DON'T WANT THE MOVIE SPOILED DON'T CLICK THE LINK.

iconsoffright.com/news/2009/03/let_the_wrong_subtitles_in_to.html

I mean you already have a movie with subtitles, that already steers away people who don't want to read while they're watching a movie, why would you DUMB THEM DOWN?!

although some of the changes are pretty hilarious as you can see on the link. Thankfully the company releasing let the right one in is re-releasing the dvd with the theater subtitles.

[drjayphd (feat. Pitbull)]

Apr 3, 2009 12:29:49 GMT -5 thwak is T.hawk said:

Thankfully the company releasing let the right one in is re-releasing the dvd with the theater subtitles.

And then they mock you mercilessly for complaining.

Yes the bloggers are having a field day on this one. Normally they like to pick on the English Dub tracks, but in this case it's the subtitles. Obviously online tend to get rowdy and bandwagon mentality without knowing all the details. The current subtitle track is not altering the context of the film at all, in fact it's a more literal translation than any prior version of subtitles. It's not a defective or faulty subtitle file. Just more literal and larger in size for the small screen. Both English and Spanish subtitle files were produced for this dvd release. Frankly it's not all that uncommon to have the subs vary from prior releases, typically go unnoticed as subs are purely a translation of film dialogue. This wouldn't have been a blip had it not been for one particular horror blog doing a side by side and claiming that they are wrong. They are not. We are not doing a recall or anything of that nature, again, these are not defective. Title came out two weeks ago and general public don't notice and don't care – bloggers are well known for jumping on something, making an issue of it and moving on. We have decided that based on the feedback that we will be making a running change, so that going forward (once inventories deplete), we will be making that subtitle version available. Options in set up will be; English Subtitles / English (theatrical) Subtitles / Spanish Subtitles"

[thwak is T.hawk]

Apr 3, 2009 12:40:54 GMT -5 drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) said:

Apr 3, 2009 12:29:49 GMT -5 thwak is T.hawk said:

Thankfully the company releasing let the right one in is re-releasing the dvd with the theater subtitles.

And then they mock you mercilessly for complaining.

Yes the bloggers are having a field day on this one. Normally they like to pick on the English Dub tracks, but in this case it's the subtitles. Obviously online tend to get rowdy and bandwagon mentality without knowing all the details. The current subtitle track is not altering the context of the film at all, in fact it's a more literal translation than any prior version of subtitles. It's not a defective or faulty subtitle file. Just more literal and larger in size for the small screen. Both English and Spanish subtitle files were produced for this dvd release. Frankly it's not all that uncommon to have the subs vary from prior releases, typically go unnoticed as subs are purely a translation of film dialogue. This wouldn't have been a blip had it not been for one particular horror blog doing a side by side and claiming that they are wrong. They are not. We are not doing a recall or anything of that nature, again, these are not defective. Title came out two weeks ago and general public don't notice and don't care – bloggers are well known for jumping on something, making an issue of it and moving on. We have decided that based on the feedback that we will be making a running change, so that going forward (once inventories deplete), we will be making that subtitle version available. Options in set up will be; English Subtitles / English (theatrical) Subtitles / Spanish Subtitles"

from what I'm hearing that was someone over at the canadian distribution.

EDIT: whoops, nevermind I read the icons of fright article before the consumerist article, I thought that was a response to a member of icons of fright from the canadian distributor, not an internal email that got leaked.

[Claw died]

I watched the Blu-ray version about a week before it was released and it had the theatrical subtitles.



Weird.

[Loki]

So do people now bitch about subtitles without having a clue about how close they actually are to the lines delivered by the actors???

It turns out the "horrible" subtitles were closer to the original than the "better" ones...


BTW, now I want to watch this movie... and I'll try to see which subtitles are better.

[Cela]

Lets get em!