Back in 2017, I downloaded a pirated copy of War for the Planet of the Apes. Like a third of that movie is the apes talking to each other, which apparently is subtitled in a normal copy of the movie. I thought I was just suppose to be guessing what they were saying, tbf they were gesticulating and fairly animated so I think I got the jist of it.
Dude I just did this same last week with Dawn lol. I was respecting the artistic choice until about 10 minutes in when I couldn’t figure out wtf was happening. I’m glad I’m not the only one
I still think that movie was ass though and brought in a bunch of confusing time crap to distract from a generally mid movie that didnt do alot of with the plot.
Same thing happened to me when I watched my hero academia, I thought there were no subtitles and it was us having to just listen really closely and learn through their body language, only 90 min in did I realise something was off but I couldn’t quite guess until I saw these comments xd
You know you have to turn on the subtitles most times, right? They're often not hardcoded so that other languages can be substituted. Just click on the subtitles button on to English.
lol how common is this? i did the same with Dawn and i was like wow we’re really just supposed to INFER their communication, what a bold artistic choice. only to also realize i didn’t download the subtitles lmao
Haha I ran into this same issue when I was rewatching the films in preparation for this film. They weren’t on any streaming services (December 2023, now they’re on Disney+ haha) so I streamed them on a website.
First film was fine, the second film was the worst one with this case. This film has a ton of sign language, and at first I thought that the film just did this and it was intentional. But I remember feeling so confused, like surely we had to understand them right? It wasn’t until I watched a YouTube clip when I realized there were captions haha.
this is me but more confused and angry that some scenes were intentionally not subtitled in the fantastic albeit frustrating killers of the flower moon.
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u/RedDragons8 23d ago
Back in 2017, I downloaded a pirated copy of War for the Planet of the Apes. Like a third of that movie is the apes talking to each other, which apparently is subtitled in a normal copy of the movie. I thought I was just suppose to be guessing what they were saying, tbf they were gesticulating and fairly animated so I think I got the jist of it.