Very much not common everywhere. Where I live, if you want subtitles, you need to find a cinema that has a showing with subtitles. Usually that’s also paired with the non dubbed original audio.
A personal subtitle screen like those translucent mirrors you‘re describing sounds like a great solution though. I don’t really like subtitles unless I’m watching in a language I don’t understand very well but I know a lot of people who prefer having them on regardless.
Movie theaters suck. They’re expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.
Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.
What the fuck?
Most theaters I know simply put the subtitles in the local language in EVERY movie.
This doesn’t happen in native English speaking countries (when the movie language is English, which it is 99.999% of the time).
Very much not common everywhere. Where I live, if you want subtitles, you need to find a cinema that has a showing with subtitles. Usually that’s also paired with the non dubbed original audio.
A personal subtitle screen like those translucent mirrors you‘re describing sounds like a great solution though. I don’t really like subtitles unless I’m watching in a language I don’t understand very well but I know a lot of people who prefer having them on regardless.
One could do it like in an opera house, where the subtitles are shown on a separate screen above or below the stage
Must be a Europe thing. I’ve been to a plethora of movie theaters and never came across this. They just have designated Closed Caption screenings.
I’ve never seen anything like it in Europe, where I live they even show the subs in 2 languages at the same time. It’s horrible.