We watch a lot of movies (and a TV show every day at lunch!) in our house, and closed captioning is on 100% of the time, so that I don’t ask Steven “what’d they say?!”… because that gets old pretty fast.
I also get so much more out of the story by having them on. Closed captions (compared to subtitles, which are dialogue only) include dialogue, musical cues, sound effects, and other relevant audio information. Have you ever watched a movie with closed captions on after seeing it in the theater and read dialogue there is no way in hell you’d ever have picked up? And it actually adds to the story? It’s amazing!!! I often leave the theater thinking “I can’t wait to watch that with CCs on.”
Are they on in your house? Take my poll below!
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I was thinking about this because we borrowed The Princess Bride from Bobbi and watched it this week*. Folks! I don’t think I’d ever seen this! It’s really funny and clever! With one problem – the DVD only had subtitles in French and Spanish and I could not understand some of the jokes spoken in English. Womp. This happened with a movie we paid to rent a few weeks ago – no CCs available. I’ve become so dependent on them, I get a bit panicky when they’re not available (except in the theater).
*After realizing Mandy Patinkin was in it, we wanted to watch it
No post is complete without a photo so here’s a selfie I sent to my mom and snis last night to tell them the pineapple I bought at Aldi (for $1.49 each!) was so good I wanted to cry.
The one I cut up yesterday was so sweet we both thought it tasted like candy
We’ve been having some amazing fruit lately – especially pineapple, watermelon, and strawberries. We’re more likely to eat fruit when it tastes good (duh, ha ha) so I’ve been super grateful that is has been. We usually have sweet item after lunch and dinner and fruit has 90% replaced cookies/ice cream/chocolate/etc. I hope it continues to be this good!
I never use closed captions! It’s so distracting for me, lol, and I feel like I miss out on the visuals of the TV show/movie because I’m just looking at the text on the screen! But I feel like I’m in the minority because whenever I go to friends’ houses (you know, back in Before Times when we went to people’s houses), they always have CC on!
There is truly nothing better than sweet pineapple. Mmm!
I’ve heard other people say that too! I think maybe even Steven used to say that before he realized if they were off I was going to be asking him over and over what they said.
OMG. It legit tastes like candy. HOW IS IT SO SWEET?!
I don’t use close captioning, and it’s because I forget to turn it on, but YES, it would help so much because both of us do miss a lot, especially if there’s an accent involved.
FRUIT. I do miss choosing it myself. I’m going to get a watermelon this weekend, one way or another. And I do love a good pineapple…hmmm, adding that to my list and hoping for a good one.
We have it turned on all the time on our streaming apps so when we turn one on and it’s off I am like WHAT THE EFF. I hope you remember to turn it on!
Surprisingly, some of the best I’ve had lately someone else chose for me! But I was in Aldi yesterday trying to smell pineapples and strawberries through my paper mask. LOLOL. I hope you get that watermelon! Don’t fall for the small one, get a big one!!!
We use them sporadically. We’re pretty sure we blew out one of the speakers in our TV recently (oops), so lately I’ve wanted to use them a lot more often! We have a Roku, and the Roku has an overarching setting that you can turn CC on every time, after you watch something the first time, or never (obviously you don’t pick one setting forever and leave it that way – you’re allowed to change, haha). It’s really nice because that setting applies to everything on Roku, so we just turn CC on in Roku and it works on Netflix, Disney+, etc.
Oh no! Are you going to try to get it fixed or replace it eventually? I think we have that turned on in the Roku too – I can remember checking there when they aren’t working, ha.
I didn’t actually think about the difference between captions and subtitles; I’m not sure which ones we have on (probably captions). We have them on by default most of the time because the street outside our living room is so noisy and the windows are not sealed tightly. I don’t love it, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
I’ve been eating a lot more fruit now too. I think the most disappointing fruit is often strawberries (well, melon…). One of my Korean friends was really dismayed to find how tasteless a lot of our strawberries are. She said they reminded her more of vegetables than of sweet fruit, which I found an apt description for some of the crappier ones I’ve had.
I had to look it up! (the difference) Oh yeah, your place is noisy in the living room! Does AC have any cute noises? Is it all captions?
Oh gawd yes. I feel like strawberries are a HUGE gamble. That is a good description. It’s like, what do you even do with them when they are like that? Would they ruin a smoothie? Meh.