Crank 2: High Voltage - theatrical subtitles?

[Alister_M]

Just a quick Q about the Region A disc.. can anyone confirm if the BD has the original theatrical subtitles for the non-English dialogue - which appear in different areas of the screen in various colorful fonts - or plain white generic player-generated subtitles like the non-US BD release?

[LPMA]

Originally Posted by Alister_M

Just a quick Q about the Region A disc.. can anyone confirm if the BD has the original theatrical subtitles for the non-English dialogue - which appear in different areas of the screen in various colorful fonts - or plain white generic player-generated subtitles like the non-US BD release?

They're pretty much an integral part of the movie. A quick look at the screenshots from the review seem to indicate they are there.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Crank...0/#Screenshots

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by LPMA

They're pretty much an integral part of the movie. A quick look at the screenshots from the review seem to indicate they are there.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Crank...0/#Screenshots

Cheers, looks like I'll be ordering it!

The weird thing is, on the Sony version if you watch the PIP-mode version with the movie in the PIP window, that tiny version has the original subtitles. But any other setting reverts to the generic ones, which I guess they did so they could use the same master for multiple language territories. Between that and the 7.1 audio (as opposed to 5.1 on Sony) it'll be well worth the upgrade for me

[LPMA]

Originally Posted by Alister_M

Cheers, looks like I'll be ordering it!

The weird thing is, on the Sony version if you watch the PIP-mode version with the movie in the PIP window, that tiny version has the original subtitles. But any other setting reverts to the generic ones, which I guess they did so they could use the same master for multiple language territories. Between that and the 7.1 audio (as opposed to 5.1 on Sony) it'll be well worth the upgrade for me

That kind of subtitle generally would need to be burned into the image. My best guess is the PIP tiny version was actually encoded separately as a tiny version of the movie itself, and probably from the original version of the film (they probably used the same tiny version as the US release).