Americans can't read ?

Yeah but stealing other people's ideas just to make some money is fine ? Right -_-

Oh, baloney. Quarantine was nothing more than an English language version of Rec...no better or worse than the original....small directorial variations here and there notwithstanding. Zombies jumping out at the viewer from the dark, cheap thrills galore, just as they were intended to be. Nothing more. Fun, but neither of these films were exactly great cinematic masterpieces. Enjoy them both for what they are...

You're right, no human being would stack books like this.

I don't have a problem with watching foreign movies and having English subtitles, I do it all the time. However, I would never do that with a horror movie. It would partially distract me and take away from the actual horror essence of the film.

Ok? But do you people realize that all countries that don't have English as their Native language whenever they go to the cinema to watch American movies HAVE to read subtitles ? Because only a small amount of people know English well enough to understand everything that is said.

The crack about 'americans can't read' is stupid and immature. The fact that this film was remade has very little to do with subtitles. It's just standard practice that when a foreign film is made with a mass or global commercial appeal, usually in a pulp genre (more often than not, horror (usually from Japan)) there will be an inevitable American remake. I do think it's a shame that Americans either don't get the chance to be exposed to more foreign films, or don't seek them out on their own. But the film audiences in this country are spoiled from a century of having the world's leading film industry. Many people haven't had to venture outside of the realm of the American studio system to see the most significant and popular films in the world. Those of us interested in something more than that have discovered American independent films and world cinema, but the general population has not. Thus, the audience for a film like Quarantine is the type of audience that might enjoy a film like this but that would not search for it if it wasn't readily accessible to them. I don't even think that it's necessarily because they are afraid of subtitles (Inglourious Basterds was a massive success in this country). I think it has more to do with the American audience never being exposed to it. The producers and studio of this film decided it would be an easier sell and it would be more profitable to buy the rights to this movie, remake it, and distribute it as an American version.... I do believe, however, that if they just bought the rights to the original film, cut out the production costs, and distributed the original into a wide theatrical release that they may have been better off in terms of money. The thing is that none of these producers wants to take a chance on that. What it mostly comes down to is that the studios don't have faith that the American audience can handle foreign films...But they aren't necessarily right.

Also, if you can read, you should be able to watch a films with subtitles.

And please, for the love of god, no dubbing.

I agree, subtitles are just a matter of getting used to it. I'm American, so I don't watch many subtitled movies, but when I do, it's not usually a problem. It just takes some effort. That being said, they can be difficult if the movie is really fast-paced like in American action movies that partially use subtitles. I get halfway through the sentence, and the guy's on to the next one.

Italy does dub pretty much everything that they show in theaters and on TV, but the end result is that you get alot of people proficient in only their on language. My sister lives in Italy with an italian man in his 30's. None of his friends, who are in the same general age-group can speak a word of english(I have tried). They learn it in school but they never hear it once they quit school which makes them forget how it sounds.

Thus, I would say subtitling broadens your ear to learning new languages, whereas dubbing everything leads to a problem that does exist in some european countries, like Italy, France and Spain(apart from the touristy places), that people only speak their native tounge and nothing more even if they did learn it in the past. It's getting better but like I said, having spent some time in Italy, there still is a huge problem. They even laugh at people who pronounce american actors names the way they're supposed to be pronounced. They pronounce it differently and since they never hear the correct way of doing it, how should they know?

I would also argue that hearing different languages spoken makes people less judgemental about people based on how they talk. Some languages does sound harsher than others, but if you're used to hearing it, it's not going to shock you.

And regarding your agrument(I so hope it was a joke) that we make immigrants suffer by using subtitled films. Aren't there alot of foreign channels in U.S? And also regarding REC, it's in spanish, I thought most american immigrants were from Mexico? But sure, it might be difficult for an immigrant to read subtitles but isn't that also a part of learning a language? Learning to read it?

Ok, sorry for rambling on but I really think dubbing is the worst thing to ever be allowed on TV and remaking movies, just to make the characters speak english, is im my opinion just idiotic and pointless.