even if you know the language well enough to understand everything they say do you like to turn them on anyway? or do they bug you?

it's difficult for me to watch something without subs/captions.

I only speak / write in English and i don't use subs for anything in English anything else i use subs and don't mind them at all.

This.

I hate the huge margin for audio levels. One minute you can't hear a conversation, the next an explosion shakes the room.

I hate subtitles.

If I "acquire" a file with subtitles I can't turn off, I will delete the file and look for another clean one.

Not for finnish films unless it's pre 60s since the guys sucked at recording sound back then. For rest, I usually prefer english subtitles just incase.

it depends on the film, really

but ordinarily if I am watching something in english, then no I will not put on subtitles only because it can be distracting

I never use subtitles for movies in english or spanish.

Don't even use them for french or italian movies even though sometimes there's something I don't get (the words I don't know I can usually understand from the context, but some times I do run across a sentence I'm not sure what it means). I used to do this with german films too, but I've lost the ability to do so; my german is rusty now and I struggle understanding german movies without subs.

I do use them for all the other languages though... and I do infact prefer to watch those films in their original language with subititles than watching them dubbed.

I can't watch a movie without subs.

I don't always read them, but I just need them there, for a strange reason.