rosexknight:

starridge:

starridge:

I hope the Mario movie fiasco helps studios learn that celebrity voicecasts only receive vitriol when they’re poorly casted and distract from the actual characters and movie.

When you watch Shrek or Megamind you don’t spend the whole movie actively aware you’re listening to Mike Meyers and Cameron Diaz, or Will Ferrell and Tina Fey. Fuck it man even when you watch Despicable Me, Steve Carell does a good job of being the character. Chris Pratt is just like himself? Doing an impression of your friend from New York’s dad? And it actively pulls you out of the movie because you’re so aware of that! Good voice actors do the exact opposite and create a believable character and performance!!

Celebrity voice casts are not inherently bad, studios just do not know how to cast them!!! Fuck!!!!!

i also think it says a lot that ryan reynolds did a better job playing actual literal pikachu than chris pratt is doing as mario, a human man

Especially since Ryan Reynolds didn’t even really put on a voice, but he still was able to make a believable character with tones and inflections. Especially when he did the little Pikachu noises.