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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 16:01:15 GMT -5
Seriously. I get the idea that Simba is more laid back and less decisive than Mufasa. I accept this. But he sounds so whiny! I believe even Nathan Lane pulling double duty would have been more convincing in this role. Hell, Whoopi Goldberg pulling double duty might have been better...  To me, it's the movie's one glaring flaw. |
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Post by Cela on Feb 19, 2016 17:48:12 GMT -5
He was supposed to be a lion cub who was afraid to go back and spent his whole life slacking. It works.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 19, 2016 18:09:20 GMT -5
I thought he did fine. Lion Ferris
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Post by DSR on Feb 19, 2016 18:29:05 GMT -5
I had no problem with him in the role.
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Post by lildude8218 on Feb 19, 2016 20:47:45 GMT -5
I'd assume it was Disney's idea
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Post by moondoggie on Feb 19, 2016 21:35:57 GMT -5
There wasn't alot of fish though
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Post by taker1990 on Feb 19, 2016 21:38:01 GMT -5
I thought the voice casting was great all around.
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Post by wisdomwizard on Feb 19, 2016 22:37:16 GMT -5
Not signing off on this at all. Broderick did his role just fine. If you don't care for Broderick, chances are you're going to be too focused on him when he speaks. But he matched the tone and style of adult Simba.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 20, 2016 6:19:43 GMT -5
He's fine. At the end when he gets serious and confronts Scar, it's very believable.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 20, 2016 6:31:26 GMT -5
It's the Rodimus Prime principle. When a strong leader dies in pop culture, people tend to reject his successor and his stupid whiney voice. Red Dead Redemption is another example. You play the whole game as this cool grizzled take no shit tough guy.. And then you play as his son  |
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 20, 2016 6:49:41 GMT -5
It's the Rodimus Prime principle. When a strong leader dies in pop culture, people tend to reject his successor and his stupid whiney voice. Red Dead Redemption is another example. You play the whole game as this cool grizzled take no shit tough guy.. And then you play as his son I'm convinced that part of the problem with Red Dead is that at the end, Jack is left completely alone, which is just too depressing. If he was given like a wife and a few kids, some cattle, and Beecher's Hope was a ranch that you could actively run at the end, people might have been OK with it. |
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Post by H-Virus on Feb 20, 2016 7:38:59 GMT -5
Still not nearly as weird a decision as casting Sarah Silverman to play a ten year old candyland princess.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 7:43:27 GMT -5
Criticism would have been justified if he had a scene like this...
Rafiki: "You have to return and take your rightful place on the throne."
Simba: "NO!...I have to get out of here." *teeth chattering*
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 20, 2016 10:18:09 GMT -5
Still not nearly as weird a decision as casting Sarah Silverman to play a ten year old candyland princess. And it somehow worked. Vanellope is easily my favorite role of hers. Broderick did a decent job but I always felt Jonathan Taylor Thomas never got enough credit for his work as younger Simba. Mufasa's famous death scene wouldn't have been anywhere as effective without his delivery, he gave him a legit sense of heartbreak. |
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Post by mizerable on Feb 20, 2016 14:09:17 GMT -5
Broderick is pretty underwhelming in just about everything that isn't War Games.
Yeah, I know he was Ferris and honestly I think they could've gotten about 20 other big name teen idols at the time to do a better job than he did.
But that is Matthew's movie legacy; most anyone would have been a better fit.
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