do english people use subtitles when watching american movies?

No dont think so, im scottish and never heard of anybody recently wanting subtitles to watch an american/brittish film, it is funny if its true. But i have heard that the scottish film Trainspotting by Danny Boyle was Subtitled/Re dubbed for the American Audience as they coudnt understand the Edinburgh 'scottish' accents...(Even i find it difficult to understand Glaswegian accents and im from Edinburgh)...lol....Only in America.

EDIT. well it was dubbed for sure. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/trivia and ken loach's Riff Raff was subtitled http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19... and a lot of other brittish films (ie Gregorys girl) redubbed or subtitled for the american audience.

To my understanding, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. This simply means that you are a unique kind of learner. As a teacher-to-be, I have been trained to style my lessons around a multitude of different learning styles--and man-o-man, you wouldn't believe some of them; I've known children who will be able to watch a movie once and recite it from heart, but be unable to remember the sequence to the solving a math problem. I've seen children who cannot understand long division for the life of them, but once they are given base-ten blocks, they are capable of figuring it out within a few lessons. The same goes with you. You're someone who receives and processes information in a certain kind of way; it is simply the way your mind works. There's nothing wrong with it--in fact, you've found a good compromise--subtitles! I encourage you to foster this strategy. I suspect you may very well enjoy reading--if not yet, then you will if you give it a try. I also expect that you'd very much get into the art of comic strips and graphic novels. For graphic novels, I recommend you start out with the compilation called Flight. It contains several pieces, all of different style, and chances are you'll find a style you like inside it. You can find it in your local bookstore, or you can order it from the link below. The link leads you to the first issue--there are five in all. And as for books--I'll leave that for you to decide :D

No! It might have been a French movie with English sub-titles, but not American with sub-titles

Sometimes Americans are a little hard for British/Australian people to understand, especially Southern drawls, but mainly it's not too bad and I've never seen sub-titles for American movies in England or Australia!

I think it's harder for Americans to understand some British accents (like Scottish and Irish and London cockney) than it is for us to understand American accents.

We are so exposed to the American culture that it's not difficult to understand the accents.

Nope!

Like the others have said, only films that have been made in another language get subtitles. Why waste money making subtitles for something we can understand?

Haha, I use subtitles when watching DVDs at my house! My friends hate it, they always make me turn the subtitles off. But although I can hear fine and can understand what's going on in a movie, I find subtitles to be convenient.

You don't even KNOW how much you've missed in a movie until you use subtitles... Even favorite movies of mine that I've watched over and over, I seem to find new things in them whenever I use subtitles.

Totally untrue. The only time subtitles are used are in foreign language movies.

no cause the americans on movies all have really good accents, however do americans use subtitles when they have americans playing irish peolple.

Lol no reason why we should use subtitles- after all it's our language you guys are using :/

no the only time subtitles are used in cinema are when foreign films are being shown

no we do not, its easier understanding americans than it is some rural ares of Britain