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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 8, 2022 17:22:30 GMT -5
It's more that the current voice actor is alive and should have the opportunity to voice the character on the big screen. Captain Lou is dead. Walker Boone is dead. Charles Martinet is very much alive. The fact that he didn't even get a chance to give it a go is a shame. Alternatively, Peter Cullen could have reprised from his Supercade days. Great minds think alike. I bet Illumination wouldn't force nonsense like "Give me your face" into his mouth too . As for Martinet, it happens. Mae Questel had to audition for Olive Oyl when Hanna-Barbera did Popeye...and didn't get the part. And again I consider Pratt a "safe" voice. Aside from too much video game Mario being grating, I'm sure it would raise the hackles of watchdogs against stereotyping and such. Whether Pratt sounds the part beyond the trailer, we'll see. Say, is the CD-I Mario still alive?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 8, 2022 17:32:34 GMT -5
Alternatively, Peter Cullen could have reprised from his Supercade days. Great minds think alike. I bet Illumination wouldn't force nonsense like "Give me your face" into his mouth too . As for Martinet, it happens. Mae Questel had to audition for Olive Oyl when Hanna-Barbera did Popeye...and didn't get the part. And again I consider Pratt a "safe" voice. Aside from too much video game Mario being grating, I'm sure it would raise the hackles of watchdogs against stereotyping and such. Whether Pratt sounds the part beyond the trailer, we'll see. Say, is the CD-I Mario still alive? Ernie Hudson auditioned for himself in the real Ghostbusters and didn't get the part.
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 8, 2022 17:34:28 GMT -5
Alternatively, Peter Cullen could have reprised from his Supercade days. Great minds think alike. I bet Illumination wouldn't force nonsense like "Give me your face" into his mouth too . As for Martinet, it happens. Mae Questel had to audition for Olive Oyl when Hanna-Barbera did Popeye...and didn't get the part. And again I consider Pratt a "safe" voice. Aside from too much video game Mario being grating, I'm sure it would raise the hackles of watchdogs against stereotyping and such. Whether Pratt sounds the part beyond the trailer, we'll see. Say, is the CD-I Mario still alive? Marc Graue? Yeah, he's still kicking and apparently is quite amused by the meme culture around Hotel Mario. He also did a fairly vulgar dub of that game's opening (that you can find on YouTube) for a gag which Nintendo would probably not find fairly amusing so he's probably not an option.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 8, 2022 17:40:49 GMT -5
Great minds think alike. I bet Illumination wouldn't force nonsense like "Give me your face" into his mouth too . As for Martinet, it happens. Mae Questel had to audition for Olive Oyl when Hanna-Barbera did Popeye...and didn't get the part. And again I consider Pratt a "safe" voice. Aside from too much video game Mario being grating, I'm sure it would raise the hackles of watchdogs against stereotyping and such. Whether Pratt sounds the part beyond the trailer, we'll see. Say, is the CD-I Mario still alive? Ernie Hudson auditioned for himself in the real Ghostbusters and didn't get the part. Not that he was too big for VAing. He was Cyborg just 1-2 years prior on the Super Powers Team.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 8, 2022 17:44:03 GMT -5
In Mario news....after this week's Ghosts I think of Devan Long calling him the red Little Italy Man.
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Post by HMARK Center on Oct 8, 2022 18:13:30 GMT -5
Yeah, there’s plenty of non-acting stuff people can get on Chris Pratt about, apparently, but the idea that people can nail down if he’s any good based on two brief voice clips is insane and yet another indictment of the stupid “let’s dissect 90 second teasers for hours on end” content generation machine and algorithm. People need to get a damn grip. And yes, Mario and Luigi are plumbers from Brooklyn. Bunch of danger Zoomers need to get over it and then get off my lawn. It's more that the current voice actor is alive and should have the opportunity to voice the character on the big screen. Captain Lou is dead. Walker Boone is dead. Charles Martinet is very much alive. The fact that he didn't even get a chance to give it a go is a shame. I'm 100% behind voice actors and their supporters who think it's ridiculous and wrong how Hollywood discards them for celebrities so often. That doesn't mean that the celebrity who does get the gig can't do a good job, however, and all I'm saying is that it's more than a little unfair (and no doubt driven by "Mario's voice RUINED?!" clickbait video thumbnails on YouTube) to hear Pratt say barely two lines and draw some kind of conclusion regarding his entire performance. As for Charles Martinet, I would love to hear him voice Mario the way he originally intended to: when he went in to audition for Mario the first time he went preparing a Brooklyn accent, but at the last minute decided to go Italian accented with it. He's more than talented enough to pull off a movie as Mario the whole way through. Again, though, that says nothing about Pratt's performance and how good or bad it is. But people thinking Charles should do a whole movie in the "It's-a me!" voice? I can't begin to comprehend that unless you only have Mario doing the "Yah, hah, WA-HOO!" sounds the whole time. It's tough to do a movie where there'll probably be some emotional beats and expect people to take it seriously if Mario is speaking like an Italian stereotyped imp the whole time. And again, people who are upset that Mario and Luigi don't just immediately live in the Mushroom Kingdom confuse me, too. You want to establish the kingdom as a strange, wondrous place, the simplest way to do that is to have Mario and Luigi as fishes out of water; it also makes Mario and Luigi instantly more relatable for the audience. But I think there's a contingent of voices online that decided many moons ago that if something isn't a 1:1 translation of a game onto screen they're going to dislike it, needs of an entirely different narrative/artistic medium be damned. I seriously even saw a couple people recently (assuredly a tiny, tiny, tiny minority, to be sure) whining about the Netflix Castlevania series for not being exactly like (how they imagine) the games.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 8, 2022 18:16:25 GMT -5
Great minds think alike. I bet Illumination wouldn't force nonsense like "Give me your face" into his mouth too . As for Martinet, it happens. Mae Questel had to audition for Olive Oyl when Hanna-Barbera did Popeye...and didn't get the part. And again I consider Pratt a "safe" voice. Aside from too much video game Mario being grating, I'm sure it would raise the hackles of watchdogs against stereotyping and such. Whether Pratt sounds the part beyond the trailer, we'll see. Say, is the CD-I Mario still alive? Ernie Hudson auditioned for himself in the real Ghostbusters and didn't get the part. But he DID play himself in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 8, 2022 18:22:13 GMT -5
Ernie Hudson auditioned for himself in the real Ghostbusters and didn't get the part. But he DID play himself in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Lou Albano is the blueprint
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Post by mrtuesday on Oct 8, 2022 18:28:24 GMT -5
Another thing, Chris Pratt is not a voice actor. He's a screen actor. It takes a different style of acting to do either.
Pratt doesn't do anything unique with his voice in the few times he's done animation. He just sounds like a generic gut. Which works with The Lego Movie, as he was playing Generic Lego Man. In Onward, he also just sounds like a generic guy. But now it's an elf.
Maybe it'll come through with longer trailers and more clips coming out. Buy "generic guy" voice doesn't work for a character like Mario.
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 8, 2022 18:43:16 GMT -5
I really liked the vibe of Jack Black’s Bowser.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 8, 2022 19:46:32 GMT -5
Using VAs alongside big names is one thing I give Michael Bay credit for.
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Post by chrom on Nov 29, 2022 10:27:07 GMT -5
New trailer today at 2
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Nov 29, 2022 11:10:43 GMT -5
Using VAs alongside big names is one thing I give Michael Bay credit for. Keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime for all his Transformers films is one of the smartest things Michael Bay did.
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 29, 2022 11:30:35 GMT -5
Using VAs alongside big names is one thing I give Michael Bay credit for. Keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime for all his Transformers films is one of the smartest things Michael Bay did. Making him say "Give me your face" and a thousand variants of "I'll kill you"? Not so much.
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Post by chrom on Nov 29, 2022 17:01:51 GMT -5
It's a go
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Post by chrom on Nov 29, 2022 17:02:17 GMT -5
Donkey Kong will be played by Seth Rogen.
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Post by chrom on Nov 29, 2022 17:03:25 GMT -5
Cranky is in it
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Post by eJm on Nov 29, 2022 17:09:36 GMT -5
Ok, considering Miyamoto said he was involved in casting, my theory of him pitching his casting via his Netflix habits in 2020 has legs.
Now we just need an animator to confirm he beat them with a stick when they pitched a fart joke and I’ll basically have guessed correctly the making of the movie.
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Post by chrom on Nov 29, 2022 17:12:34 GMT -5
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Post by mrtuesday on Nov 29, 2022 17:34:01 GMT -5
Pratt still sounds all kinds of wrong for Mario. Everybody else sounds decent. We don't know what Donkey Kong will sound like, yet. But if it's just Seth Rogan's normal voice, that will suck.
The references to the various games are nice. Just wondering how they will play into the story.
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