They made a whole musical about this called “Singin’ in the Rain”
As far as my opinion goes. “I can’t stan ‘em”
No
I want to respond but youre not really giving much.
Let me ask this. Would Darth Vadar be Darth Vadar if he wasn’t voiced by James Earl Jones
Another one.
What if in the movie Her the AI wasn’t Scarlet Johanson but was Fran Drescher?
Voice acting can be a good part of a movie, it could even turn a good movie into a great movie, or a terrible movie into a slightly less terrible movie, but I don’t think it’s enough on its own.
If Drescher had starred in AI we would have been violently freed of tech bros
If it had been Fran Drescher I think it would have been a better film.
Yes, chaning the voice of an actor can absolutly make a movie terrible. See: Most German dubs.
I am annoyed as fuck because Billy Goddamn Crystal was a voice in Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle”. Cringed every time he spoke, breaking the experience
To me, not very important. Quality of writing ranks higher for me.
I don’t think a different voice can fix a bad movie. That being said, I can’t think of any actors whose voices I can’t stand.
OTOH, Brotherhood of the Wolf does come to mind here. It’s a French movie; I’ve watched both with subtitles and dubbed. The voice actor for the English dub doesn’t quite fit the character.
Bad acting can ruin good writing though. Just like bad writing can ruin good acting.
Yeah, that’s true. Writing alone isn’t enough for a good movie – I’m really just saying that it’s the most important element for me.
I have to say I don’t think you can save a movie with casting, but you can definitely ruin a movie with casting. The only example of casting improving a movie are the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Johnny Depp. Without his take on Jack Sparrow I don’t think they would have been able to make a franchise of movies out of an aging theme park ride.
For me its just hard to gauge voice. I was thinking about, what if some of these movies I watch the voice is the thing that helps me connect to the character and I dont even realize it. Some times I watch movies that are of a genre I like, are structured like other movies I like, dialog is fine, but still I’m not getting into it. It could just be me but I’ll go back to them, I have a bad habit of stopping and restarting, and I still dont get into it. So not really bad movie and making it good but taking an ok movie and making it great.
I dont know.
I mean it’s entirely possible to be put off by certain actors and actresses in movies. There are some people I know who cannot stand any movie that Keanu Reeves is in because they think he’s got no range and is basically like warm plain oatmeal when it comes to like his spice level. And while I disagree with those people that’s entirely their right to feel that sort of way about what they’re watching. Like for me I can’t stand to watch anything that’s got Kristen Stewart or Zendaya in it because they both know how to only act like a block of wood.
