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September 06, 2005
ONG BAK [MAN SINGING]
Reports are popping up on the message boards (like this one here or this one here) that while the Region 1 ONG BAK DVD claims to have three subtitle tracks, it does in fact have two. There's a set of Spanish subtitles and a set of Closed Captioning English subtitles but no regular English subtitles.
This doesn't seem like a big deal to you, but wait until you try to watch a movie where every sound ("man singing", "punches thrown" "techno music") appears in the subtitles. It will scar your mind and sear your soul.
The GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE DVD had the same problem and they ultimately had to all be recalled. Notice that both companies initially responded to consumer complaints by blaming the victim (Dreamworks claimed that this wasn't a problem, just an indication of how much they loved their hearing impaired customers; Fox is blaming the problem on people who don't know how to properly turn on their subtitles the Fox way).
September 6, 2005 at 11:51 AM in News | Permalink