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It doesn’t matter if I am watching a Godzilla movie, Crouching Tiger, Princess Mononoke, or a foreign film, there is something about the “actors” hired to redub the performances that irks me - they don’t emote well, or they’re ill-cast because they’re celebrities. Sometimes they’re in the “so bad, they’re good” category, resulting in total hilarity, but that’s the only time I’ve ever enjoyed them.

If you aren’t smart enough to read a subtitle as you watch something, then just don’t watch it. Dubs are the distributors literally finding a way to expand an audience to the lowest common denominator.

It doesn’t matter if I am watching a Godzilla movie, *Crouching Tiger*, *Princess Mononoke*, or a foreign film, there is something about the “actors” hired to redub the performances that irks me - they don’t emote well, or they’re ill-cast because they’re celebrities. Sometimes they’re in the “so bad, they’re good” category, resulting in total hilarity, but that’s the only time I’ve ever enjoyed them. If you aren’t smart enough to read a subtitle as you watch something, then just don’t watch it. Dubs are the distributors literally finding a way to expand an audience to the lowest common denominator.

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There are a few series and movies where the dub is actually better, very few unicorns but they exist, example being Dragonball series, I always thought the Dubs were superior, like the voices fit the characters better,

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My one exception is Samurai Pizza Cats, but that’s only because the whole import was insane from the start.

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If you want insane, watch the Ghost Stories dub.