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Why no subtitles when Arabic characters are speaking?


It's really annoying I'd like to know what they're saying.

Also what happens to the main badguy terrorist sitting in the car in the end, looks like the end of the line for him? But I'm not really sure?

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Yes, I watched this 2 days ago and there were subtitles.

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Oh I watched it on TV, well that sucks.

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I got this on Netflix and not all the Arabic is translated. I even put it on "English for the hearing impaired".
Anyone else have the dvd?

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I watched the Netflix DVD last night (with the subtitles for the hearing impaired on). Arabic language is subtitled in yellow on the film itself, English for the hearing impaired is in white, underneath the film in the letterbox area.

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HAHA! For real, it's subtitled. There are only a couple tiny parts that aren't subbed and they are basically jokes in Arabic we probably wouldn't get if they were translated anyway.

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The version I watched had the subs for Arabic

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Dude, where did you watch it? I just watched it on HBO in India, and they had subtitles for the Arabic (it seriously wouldn't have seemed complete if there hadn't been).

Now, they put English subtitles even for English dialogue (because of the accent) here in India, but somehow, the subtitles for Arabic seemed to be put up in the master/film copy.

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