So THAT’S How It’s Spelled (or, Fun With Subtitles!)
If you don’t watch movies or TV shows with the closed captioning or subtitles on, you are missing out. Well, sort of. Let me explain. Captions/subtitles aren’t just beneficial for the hearing impaired or hard of hearing. After all, foreign films without subtitles would be… well, a lot more foreign. (Also, the people who can read might find them handy.) But I have discovered another use for captions and subtitles that will give movie fans back their lives. Sorry, not that they didn’t have lives before. But you know all that boring stuff in movies you don’t have the patience for? You can turn on the subtitles and scan through all that crap. And provided you can read the subtitles as you fast-forward, you can still get the gist of what’s going on without having to suffer through stuff like the opening credits, music video montages, and whole entire romantic comedies. Subtitles are also a huge time-saver for scrolling through mediocre to crappy movies you’ve just lost interest in, but