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Posted on 7/24/12 at 5:46 pm to tduecen
I have never gotten this either. There are actual voice actors out there that make a living doing this, and they give the jobs to real actors and pay them a fortune.
Even this guy has a unique voice. Was a voice actor in Mrs Doubtfire, which complete validates him.
Darth fricking Vader
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Robin Williams
Even this guy has a unique voice. Was a voice actor in Mrs Doubtfire, which complete validates him.
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James Earl Jones
Darth fricking Vader
Posted on 7/24/12 at 9:27 pm to White Shadeaux
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$$$$$
They feel that's the only way people will go to those movies.
Stupid Hollywood.
so they do things that make them money and they are stupid? makes no sense.
if they get big names, they can put them on the advertisements. they can have them on the talk show circuit. they can tap into demographics that might not go see the movie otherwise.
dont let your hatred of democrats shadeaux every thought in your mind. its not healthy
Posted on 7/24/12 at 11:34 pm to tduecen
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Robin Williams was Genie in Aladdin
That's what started it. They dabbled in it a tad in the 90s, but it then got completely out of control when Shrek hit theaters (and the people that brought us it also made Aladdin and it shows). They really just started listing off actors from that point and wanted to see what type of animal they could turn them into.
Posted on 7/24/12 at 11:36 pm to The Sad Banana
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Well, maybe. I love the Disney/Pixar movies. And let's face it, can you really see anybody else voicing Sully, Mike and Randall in Monsters, Inc. other than John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Steve Buscemi? Hell, they even sort of caricature the characters like their real life voice counterparts. Ed Asner as Mr. Frederickson in Up and Christopher Plummer as Charles Muntz...I can't think of anybody else doing those voices.
Yeah, but no one was lining up to see John Goodman and especially Ed Asner do voices. Will Smith as a fish? Jerry Seinfeld as a bee? They clearly came up with the actor first and then came up with the species and story.
Posted on 7/24/12 at 11:52 pm to OceanMan
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Even this guy has a unique voice. Was a voice actor in Mrs Doubtfire, which complete validates him.
Yeah, Robin Williams has a tone of extreme exaggeration which makes him perfect for animation. No complaints with that casting. But half these celebrities have absolutely no business voice acting, like Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, etc. If you pick a Dreamworks character at random, chances are he/she had no business voicing the character.
Pixar seems to be the only studio that can pick actual celebrity voices wisely, like Tom Hanks being absolutely perfect for Woody or Ellen Degenres as Dory. Compare Brave and How Train Your Dragon: Sure some of the adults were done pretty good, but the kids? Did any of those kids sound remotely Scottish or Norwegian? All sounded like they were born and raised in California. Brave however they're all cast perfectly and sound Scottish. Both are around the same quality as far as storytelling goes, but that shows that Dreamworks takes the celebrity thing to the utmost extreme even when it makes no sense.
Posted on 7/25/12 at 12:59 am to JJ27
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and Benson Can never remember his real name.
Ben Vereen (sp)
Posted on 7/25/12 at 1:00 am to tduecen
I always thought it was a waste of money. Unless it is someone with a real distinct voice, like ray Romano.
Posted on 7/25/12 at 6:46 am to BOSCEAUX
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and Benson Can never remember his real name.
Robert Guillaume
It seems they cast people sometimes that are totally unnecessary...like Queen Latifa in Ice Age...really, did yall really need to spend that money?
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Posted on 7/25/12 at 8:40 am to CocomoLSU
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Seriously, read the thread..
frick, I did and didn't see that one
Posted on 7/25/12 at 8:51 am to OMLandshark
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Yeah, Robin Williams has a tone of extreme exaggeration which makes him perfect for animation. No complaints with that casting. But half these celebrities have absolutely no business voice acting, like Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, etc. If you pick a Dreamworks character at random, chances are he/she had no business voicing the character.
Pixar seems to be the only studio that can pick actual celebrity voices wisely, like Tom Hanks being absolutely perfect for Woody or Ellen Degenres as Dory. Compare Brave and How Train Your Dragon: Sure some of the adults were done pretty good, but the kids? Did any of those kids sound remotely Scottish or Norwegian? All sounded like they were born and raised in California. Brave however they're all cast perfectly and sound Scottish. Both are around the same quality as far as storytelling goes, but that shows that Dreamworks takes the celebrity thing to the utmost extreme even when it makes no sense.
Great post and it adds to why Pixar is tops in the industry.
Posted on 7/25/12 at 8:58 am to etm512
Indeed.
Posted on 7/25/12 at 9:09 am to The Sad Banana
Billy Crystal does something with his voice in Monster's Inc. that makes it hard for me to see him actually voicing Mike. It's strange. It's so obvious who he is, but he puts so much into the performance, you can actually detach the actor from the character.
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