what was the first movie you saw with subtitles?

[Rypro 525]

(note it does not have to be at the theaters, it could be a dvd, or an anime also)
first one i saw was crouching tiger at the theaters.

[Groucho]

The Seventh Seal on television when I was a kid.

[fnordboy]

That's a good question. I wish I could remember but I was most likely a little kid.

[tofu]

Tai Chi Master

[boston george]

Originally posted by fnordboy
That's a good question. I wish I could remember but I was most likely a little kid.

Same here. I wish I could remember, though I'm sure it didn't bother me as at least 30% of the movies I watch these days are subtitled.

[Tscott]

Must have been in high school french class. I remember watching a few french movies on video in class and even taking a field trip to see one at an art house theater. Sadly I can't remember what any of those films were now.

[QuiGonJosh]

I believe Seventh Seal was my first foreign film...when I was a kid...

[Mondo Kane]

It was some jailhouse movie that my dad rented in the mid-80's.

To this day, I still don't know what the name of that movie was. My guess is that it was either French or Hungarian and it took place entirely in prison. Anyone help?

[sundog]

Originally posted by Mondo Kane
It was some jailhouse movie that my dad rented in the mid-80's.

To this day, I still don't know what the name of that movie was. My guess is that it was either French or Hungarian and it took place entirely in prison. Anyone help?

Color? Black & white? Older? Newer? Was it about an attempted escape?

The Hole?

A Man Escaped?

[jayson1017]

Seventh Seal, which I saw on vhs like 15 years ago.

[Maxflier]

Crouching Tiger was my first also.

[Giles]

The first film that I distinctly recall was the 1977 Greek film Iphigenia which was a special screening for our Junior High 9th Grade History class. I think for the most part the class was pretty much uninterested in the movie on the whole, except for a brief nude scene that had all of us giggle in hysterics.

[Mondo Kane]

Originally posted by sundog
Color? Black & white? Older? Newer? Was it about an attempted escape?

The Hole?

A Man Escaped?

(Color) It appeared to be made in the 80's . Here's the scene that I remembered the most:

A new inmate arrives and tries to find a seat at lunch time. A baldheaded inmate says to him (Wherever he tries to sit) that "the seat is taken". Finally, when the inmate gets to sit down, the bald guy gets up and spits all on his lunch.

Ring a bell?

[DarthVong]

Airplane.....

"Jive-Talk" was subtitled. :)

[sundog]

Ring a bell?

whooooosh! right over my head . . . sorry charlie


I think my first subtitled film was when I was eight or nine or something. It was a film version of Carmen. I was with my grandmother and aunt, big fans of the opera. I couldn't follow it too well.

[Morf]

First that I ever watched, start to finish: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

This is also my ONLY subtitled film I've ever watched, start to finish.

[Pants]

First in a theater was Like Water for Chocolate. That was 1992, so I was in 8th grade. Wow I feel old

I might have seen something subtitled on TV, but I don't remember. I saw Das Boot when I was very young but it was the old dubbed version.

[Giles]

Originally posted by Pants
First in a theater was Like Water for Chocolate. That was 1992, so I was in 8th grade. Wow I feel old


oh stop it, you're 26?? That's not old.

[PalmerJoss]

Hard Boiled--watched it on VHS with some friends of mine about 9 years ago. It was a terrible copy, but I still remember being blown away by it.

[Iron Chef]

Originally posted by DarthVong
Airplane.....

"Jive-Talk" was subtitled. :)

same here :lol:

[PixyJunket]

I don't recall the name of the movie.. but it was about gay cowboys eating pudding. Seriously, that's all I can remember about it.. I was like 8 or 9.

[DodgingCars]

Goonies, when the subtitled what Mouth was saying to the maid.

[grrrah]

I know its definately not the first that I saw, but the first subtitled movie on dvd I saw was Das Boot.

[Jalizarin]

Das Boot for me too. :)

[Giles]

Originally posted by DarthVong
Airplane.....

"Jive-Talk" was subtitled. :)

Originally posted by DodgingCars
Goonies, when the subtitled what Mouth was saying to the maid.

I am surprised no has mentioned the subtitled scene from the rarely seen Tom Hanks comedy: Volunteers

[Tarnower]

I was 13 years old and snuck into the theaters to see Federico Fellini's "Amarcord."

[cross]

I watch all my DVDs with subtitles.

Mostly cause I don't blind buy dvds often ,so on 2nd viewings I don't mind reading text.