'I really believe it made the movie better': Dude watches a film in a hilariously wrong way

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 6, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

It may be a happy accident that this person watched "Dungeons and Dragons" completely wrong. 

Movie lovers will adore this post of a person who watched a movie incorrectly and was completely enamored with it. When u/Rodlylane watched the flick, they had a tough time navigating the settings. They just wanted to watch with subtitles, but they got a little more than they bargained for. Nevertheless, this OP adored the movie, and began researching it after the credits rolled. That ended up being quite the surprise! So they shared the story to r/movies, where the tale received hundreds of comments from people who related to the OP's mistake. 

While reading the comments under the post, it became clear that lots of people have accidentally watched movies slightly incorrectly as well. Who among us hasn't accidentally watched the first few minutes of a film without noticing something was off? It happens — and the movies that the commenters noted included "A Quiet Place," which would actually make a lot of sense to watch sans audio. 

After that, check out some ultra cringy moments from the depths of Facebook and Twitter! 

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  • 01
    Font - r/movies Posted by u/Roldylane I'm an idiot and I liked Dungeons and Dragons. Discussion I watched dungeons and dragons this evening. I tried to turn on subtitles. There was a glitch so I tried again. Another glitch. I went into the settings, and, thinking I was turning on subtitles, turned on the descriptive audio for blind people.
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    Font - I didn't realize I'd done it, I assumed the movie was narrated, like a dungeon master describing what was going on, and that the subtitles issue wasn't a glitch, but rather that it had something to do with the movie being narrated. I thought it was an interesting choice, if a little insensitive for people hard of hearing. I know that doesn't make sense, but I didn't think too much about it. The subtitles were mostly for my wife, and I figured she'd be on her phone or Switch, anyway.
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    Font - At one point my partner, playing on her Switch, listening to the movie, but hardly glancing at the screen, literally said, "This would be a good movie for blind people."
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    Font - I swear to god, sometimes the narrator would describe things a few seconds before or after they visually occurred on screen and I was consciously trying to analyze it from a storytelling perspective and determine why they described some things in advance and some things after they'd already happened.
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  • 05
    Font - At the end of the movie I kept waiting for there to be something cute in the credits about the voice actress for the dungeon master narrator, but there wasn't.
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  • 06
    Font - After the credits I got on IMDB to read trivia, expecting there to be something about the filmmaker's unconventional choice to have an omnipresent dungeon master narrator relay what was happening on screen. There was no trivia mentioning the narrator.
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    Font - I watched that whole movie with the visual description audio track.I grew to love the narration. I kept thinking that the movie had great visuals, but the narration added a different element and made really good use of the dialogue breaks in the action scenes.
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  • 08
    Font - If you liked the movie and we're planning a rewatch, or if you are watching it for the first time, consider turning on the audio description. I really believe it made the movie better.
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  • 09
    Font - MaxKevinComedy. I watched the 2nd planet of the apes movie without subtitles and thought it was very artistic how the apes communicated with sign language and the audience had no idea what they were saying.
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  • 10
    Font - It happened to me and my gf with Sound of Metal, the movie about a drummer that starts losing his hearing. Everything sounded muddy and soft and the volume turned up all the way you still couldn't tell what people were saying. After about 20 minutes we realized it wasn't an artistic choice to make you understand being hard of hearing.
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    Font - The aux cord wasn't completely plugged in to the little speaker we had connected to the laptop. If this had been ANY other movie I would have figured this out right away. Similar thing with OP, the fact that the narrator makes artistic sense to be representing a dungeon master, makes this so perfect. They're getting a little dragged in the comments but I probably would've watched the whole thing this way too
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    Font - thorn_95 this is too funny, i cant stop reading it. "this would be a good movie for blind people" cracked me up.
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  • 13
    Font - I went back and realized what I'd done. I turned off the descriptive track and watched a bit, I was really disappointed. It's still a good movie, but the narration made it so much better.
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  • 14
    Font - scullys_alien_baby. i imagine her saying in a tone that implies "it's cool for a major movie release to be so thoughtful about a small group of the audience"
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  • 15
    Font - Scooby Maroon I watched 2 minutes of TENET like that at first thinking it was some weird Nolan choice but quickly realizing there was no way. I understand your thought process but not now you didn't second guess it enough to check.
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    Human body - Mouth-Pastry Just...incredible.
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  • 17
    Font - rmichaeljones. I think I need to go back and watch it this way now. r/wholesome mistake! 25 Roldylane OP. I know, woof Reply
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  • 18
    Font - Odd-Doubt8960 My brother watched that movie "Troll" the one that came out recently, and he didn't realise that he was watching it in norwegian, somehow he went the entire movie without questioning it.
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    Font - wesleyll Can't find the post but some Redditor did this with Zootopia and thought it was a clever parody of nature documentaries.
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  • 20
    Font - I once watched a pirated copy of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that didn't have subtitles. I thought it was a bold artistic choice for a Hollywood movie to have the audience infer what the Apes were talking about rather than subtitle them. Turns out I'm just an idiot.
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    Smile - ElboMan This reminds me about that post from the guy who accidentally watched A Quiet Place with no audio the whole way through.
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