I don't particularly like captions and subtitles when learning some new language, because it becomes too distracting to the act of learning the vocalization of words. However I'll say that some people are absolutely unintelligible, i.e. Americans can't act for shit in their movies and just whisper lines. I find it impossible to watch an American movie, while a Brit one is usually perfectly serviceable.

>>487 I can not comprehend British movies without subtitles, i think it's because most of the actors are from the South near Bristol or London or Cardiff, Wales. It much easier to understand those from Manchester or Liverpool then all the places.