05-25-2006, 09:25 AM
Zagatto Wrote:Of course, there are those old kung fu movie dubs that I love so much because they are so incredibly bad that it becomes funny.
Yeh I was going to say that. They're the only dubs I can watch really. Drunken Master stands out, it's just funnier. Comedy seems hard to watch in subtitled form.
As for anime I can't watch dubbed stuff. I just feel im missing something of the original. After all surely the Japanese know what's best for their anime than us English speakers? I feel like it's their anime and we are privileged to watch it so we shouldn't be messing with it. Alot of the time with dub watchers you find they only really watch titles that are mainstream in the USA and don't look outside the usual titles everyone has seen. I admit when I was younger I watched dubs but when my tastes craved something more than the norm I started watching a lot of fansubs and you get used to it and to go back to dubs just feels wrong to watch. After all anime is Japanese and to see Japanese people doing Japanese things in an English voice doesn't fit. Even worse an American accent in the deep countryside of Japan or something.