# When Watching A Film With A Foreign Language.....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-a-film-with-a-foreign-language/519001>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 26, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-a-film-with-a-foreign-language/519001 "2009-11-26T04:11:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-a-film-with-a-foreign-language/519001/41 "2009-12-01T19:02:46Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> (I really wish I could remember the name of the movie, because I’d like to see more films with the same actresses. It was a somewhat bizarre, but very funny, martial arts/vampire comedy featuring two young actresses who apparently have done quite a few movies together, and featured Jackie Chan as a “guest star”. …)

[The Twins Effect](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351887/), perhaps?

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-a-film-with-a-foreign-language/519001/42 "2009-12-01T20:08:10Z")

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Subtitling.

That said, I was kind of horrified when my Bulgarian became good enough to follow the subtitles to English-language TV shows and movies. They made SO many mistakes and missed SO much, it made me not want to watch foreign films anymore.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-a-film-with-a-foreign-language/519001/43 "2009-12-01T20:29:35Z")

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> [@Giles](#):
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> [The Twins Effect](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351887/), perhaps?

Yes!

Gotta learn to use imdb more often …

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