I agree that having it in English would take away from the quality and authenticity of the movie (not that Jesus' pale skin in the movie didn't already do that, but that's beside the point). There's not much dialogue, anyway. This is one of the problems I had with Schindler's List. As good as SL was, it was primarily in English, which annoyed me slightly.

I never said I thought anyone should be "forced" to do it, nor do I advocate it replacing the original vision.

Throwing a quick English Dub as an extra lang. track (since there are often several tracks on any release), IMO, does not "compromise the artists vision".

Now, only offering a dubbed track, and not having the original subtitled version, would be a compromise.

Blame Jesus, he should of been considerate enough to suffer in english.

Has no one considered that the original poster in this thread was probably just trolling?

Excellent thread!!

Only in America!!!

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How is calling it the wrong language a simplification? Those sort of "simplifications" worry me.

Numanoid doesn't care about blind people.

I was misinformed. Thanks for the correction.

Well, in fairness, adding an English track as an option that you never have to turn on doesn't really compromise anyone's vision since it's only an option. But I agree that reading subtitles (unless you can't read) is the better way to watch a non-English movie.

Not to add more salt to the wound, but in terms of "simplifcation", saying Aramaic is a lot simpler than saying Hebrew language. Regardless of the fact that they are both different languages.

English Motherfucker! DO YOU SPEAK IT!

"Mods, why have you foresaken us?"

Hm, I almost always watch my movies with subtitles - I find it more enoyable that way.

a girl I work with, who is an idiot (one of the dumbest people I know), saw my devil's backbone dvd and asked to borrow it. I told her it was subtitled, she asked what that meant, i explained so she declined to borrow it. she kepy picking the case up and finally she said she'd try it. She brought it back the next day and said after like 5 minutes she didn't even realize she was reading anymore (which has always been what i tell people). I was shocked, and now she isn't afraid to watch a subtitled movie. My girlfriend won't watch them though, she sleeps when i watch them so they don't bother her. Although, one night when she woke up to ONIBABA at 3:30 AM she was a little freaked out...

I would just like to say that my post on the first page was just a goof on the OP. I've got to make that perfectly clear.