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It's worth noting out bigger movies often need to target non English speaking audiences.

So any complex dialogue or nuance is off the table.

The average Marvel movie can have it's voice acting replaced by cat noises and you'll still get the gist.

I am very happy to see the cost of filmmaking drop so much though, I will lightly never see a big budget movie in a a cinema again. But there are tons of small movies I love to see.

I'd rather support a movie with a budget of a few million, then support a blockbuster which is censored to fit the political needs of various countries around the world

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> It's worth noting out bigger movies often need to target non English speaking audiences.

> So any complex dialogue or nuance is off the table.

What a bad take! Do you seriously think complex thoughts can only be expressed in English and cannot be translated?

Nobody thinks that, but:

1. English is an unusually compact language. If you watch dubbed movies you will notice that the characters often have to talk extremely fast compared to the original and much dialogue is rephrased to be simpler. They can't refilm the sequences so in languages that take more words, the dialogue must be simplified.

2. A lot of people won't get dubbed versions anyway, so they'll be watching it as a foreign language.

As a non-native who watches everything subtitled because that's what everyone does, we have no problem following complex storylines. We have a language and competent translators.

And that's why I said "nobody thinks that", indeed.

Nonetheless, you seem to be fluent. Lots of people around the world speak some English but aren't fluent, don't get dubbing or subtitles into their own language for every film (or do but way late and they don't want to wait), and some of those people could in fact struggle to follow complex dialogue or might misunderstand idioms.

Back in the 1980s when Kung Fu movies were big, do you think American audiences cared about the plot ?

Or that the dubbing was horribly inaccurate ?

Of course not. We came to see amazing fight scenes.

Likewise, with Marvel movies the plot is barely serviceable non-sense. We came for Sci Fi special effects, jokes and fan service.

Most of the world are, just like Americans, not great at subtitles.

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