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Subtitleophobia

I've seen the Swedish version of the film "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and have been curious about the upcoming American version, so I've been sporadically checking RottenTomatoes.com for reviews and IMDb.com to read what regular people have to say. I can't tell you how many times I stumbled across a comment like this - "I can't wait for the American version. It will be far superior to the Swedish version. I can't stand subtitles. If I wanted to read, I'd get a book." I've heard this same statement uttered about other such foreign films. Are we really that lazy? Do we stray away from reading at any given opportunity? Is it really that bad? There are occasions when my eyes are so tired, I'm really not in the mood to read words on the television screen while watching a movie, but those times are few and far between. I've found that there's really not much difference between watching a film with subtitles and watching on...