Concerning captioning atrocities, a reader reports:
Years ago we were watching a Godzilla movie, recorded in Japanese, that didn’t have English subtitles. Right in the middle a subtitle popped up. It read, “F…k you! (In Japanese)”. The only subtitle in the entire movie.
In a related development, my Arts Editor reports that, if you look closely at some Godzilla movies, you can actually see the running-for-their-lives Japanese laughing like mad. I may have seen that once, myself.
It seems oddly apropos.
