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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

The number of times I've heard, "I don't want movies with subtitles," is astonishingly large, even among educated people.

Well, I can tell you that, among people who don't have to read to make a living - a dismaying number can't read very well - even among the so called "educated". My boss, a college graduate who runs a very successful business, can barely write a coherent sentence (finding documents he's written in our tablet can be a real challenge!). When I worked in advertising, one of the many hats I wore was "proofreader". I took my higher-ups official communications and rewrote them so they didn't read as though penned a seventh grader with no idea how punctuation works. These are not stupid people, obviously - they just never put a lot of stock into reading.

So, for a good number of people, reading is a "chore". Some can't read fast enough to follow the story, others are weirded out about it in the same manner that some are with understanding the mechanics of comics. It's just too much work when simply trying to be entertained - and you're trying to get them to watch a kid's show.

Yeaaahhhh.

Well, I have a co-worker who I'm trying to get to watch either Blade, Ryuki or Amazons. He likes action and 'splosions, sci-fi and comic cons and spent some time stationed in Okinawa in the 90's. He should go crazy for it, we see.