I prefer watching a foreign movie with subtitles over watching it synchronized. This has mainly two reasons. The first is that I feel that a lot of atmosphere is lost when you hear Bruce Willis or Brad Pitt speaking in a foreign language. The second reason is that I can use subtitles to view movies that are not officially available in my country.
I’am not speaking about movie downloads here – although that would be a possible application as well – but about legal purchases of movies that have been created in Asia and Scandinavia. Many of those movies have no synchronization and English subtitles which would mean that I would not be able to enjoy the movie.
I usually search subtitle databases such as Open Subtitles for the title and download the English subtitle if available. Subtitles are available in numerous languages all added by a dedicated bunch that create them for free.
The database contains more than 285000 subtitles sometimes even more than one. A search for Fight Club for instance had 258 hits for various languages and versions.
A nice feature is that you may search for subtitles in a certain language which really reduces the hits for every search that you conduct.
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I didn’t understand. When you download the subtitles…are you downloading the entire movie?
Or else how do you add the subtitles to your legally purchased video??
Useful website, although the popup is awkward.
In Poland recently all popular sites with subtitles were closed and some translators and server administrators went to prison :/ It’s sick. Good that international sites are free of stupid Polish law.
please if you know about spanish subtitles of Diggstown (1992), tell me!!! thank you very much.