AMC to Add Onscreen Captions at Some Locations
The move was lauded by advocates for the deaf and the hard of hearing, but theater owners worry audiences donβt want captions.
alternate source :
Subtitles distract me from the cinematography. If I wanted to read the story I would read a book and stay home.
I don't mind subtitles. In fact, I just got home from watching a subtitled movie and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I've noticed, particularly on closed caption television shows, that the quality of the captioning is flawed enough that I'll turn it off because the inconsistency between spoken and written language makes me nuts. Hopefully theater captioning will be of a higher caliber.
I don't care. I can ignore them if I don't like them. Sometimes captions are helpful.
(at my age) I always turn-on subtitles (when available) on the DVDs (also some online videos) I watch.
My eyesight is worse than my hearing. They are both not great tho.