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[darchildre]

Rewatched The Witch last night with Katie and Sean (who had not seen it before). I had previously watched it on Netflix but it is no longer available there, so we watched it on amazon instead. And we watched it with the subtitles on, because all of us prefer that as an option.

You guys, the amazon subtitles for The Witch are shockingly bad. Like, several moments where the meaning of the subtitles was entirely different to what the characters were actually saying - I mean, there's a moment where the character is saying "he hath entered the kingdom of heaven" and the subtitles are saying "he hath offended the kingdom of heaven". That is...that is not the same thing, oh my god.

The worst/best one, though? Was actually a sound effect. There's a bit where a woman gets pecked repeatedly by a crow. It's an extremely distressing scene for a variety of reasons. And the person doing the subtitling decided the horrible wet sound the crow was making would be best represented by a line of text saying (peck. peck. peck, peck, peck.) Way to destroy the mood, subtitle person!

I mean, we still enjoyed the movie a good deal, because it's a great movie. But damn. I had bought it on amazon because I figured, hey, this is my Halloween movie, I should probably own it somewhere, and I've slowed down a lot on buying physical dvds. But now I am considering purchasing a physical copy because surely the subtitles on the actual dvd must be better, right?

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[out_there]

Mum prefers watching with subtitles so I've become used to that. It's usually fine on Netflix except when the subtitles are for a foreign show dubbed into English. When the audio and subtitles completely dont match, it drives me batty.