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
Not sure if Bad->Good is possible, but the other way around certainly is.
Imagine BBC nature documentaries being voiced by Gilbert Gottfried instead of David Attenborough.
I would watch the hell out of that haha. American Dad has a joke about the audio book of Plato’s Republic read by Gilbert Gottfried.
I mean imagine the documentary initially with Gottfried and then swap in Attenborough… Bad to good right? I think there’s a point here about good films being easy to ruin in many different ways, while bad films are probably already ruined in several ways so fixing one thing like a voice is unlikely to save it.
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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
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What if in the movie Her the AI wasn’t Scarlet Johanson but was Fran Drescher?
I don’t know if it would ruin the entire movie per se but if you’ve heard Darth Vader (David Prowse’s voice) pre James Earl Jones dub, its definitely a character ruiner.
I can’t think of many movies where voice work is detrimental to everything except documentaries, but I know some games have annoying protagonists and it absolutely harms the whole experience.
That’s the problem Im thinking about. Could a subtle change like changing the voice of an actor really have a huge impact, for me. So maybe its not a movie that is universally disliked, just one I dont personally like.
I dont know but it is interesting to think about.
Maybe with AI this is something I could explore more.
Yes, chaning the voice of an actor can absolutly make a movie terrible. See: Most German dubs.
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.
