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JuiceCrewAllStar said:
had a good time the other night trying to remember which celebrities were voices for 90s Disney movies
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Celebrity voice acting in Disney movies wasn't really a thing until Aladdin and I don't think anybody really cared before that.
 
Ian McShane has a great voice for VO work as heard in Kung Fu Panda.
 
In gratitude for his success with Touchstone Pictures's Good Morning, Vietnam, Robin Williams voiced the Genie for SAG scale pay ($75,000) instead of his usual asking fee of $8 million, on the condition that neither his name nor image be used for marketing, and that his character take no more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since Williams's film, Toys, was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin's debut. For financial reasons, the studio reneged on both counts, especially in poster art, by having the Genie in 25% of the image but having other major and supporting characters portrayed considerably smaller. The Disney Hyperion book, Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film, lists both of Williams's characters, "the Peddler" and "the Genie", ahead of main characters, but was forced to refer to him as only "the actor signed to play the Genie".[43][47][48][49]

Disney, while not using Williams's name in commercials as per the contract, used his voice for the Genie in the commercials and used the Genie character to sell toys and fast food tie-ins, without having to pay Williams additional money. Williams unhappily quipped at the time, "The only reason Mickey Mouse has three fingers is because he can't pick up a check." Williams explained to New York magazine that his previous Mork & Mindy merchandising was different because "the image is theirs. But the voice, that's me; I gave them myself. When it happened, I said, 'You know I don't do that.' And they [Disney] apologized; they said it was done by other people."[50]

Disney attempted to assuage Williams by sending him a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than $1 million, but this move failed to repair the damaged relationship, as the painting was a self-portrait of Picasso, as the artist, Vincent van Gogh, and apparently really "clashed" with the Williams's wilder home decor.[51] Williams refused to sign for the 1994 direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar, so it was Dan Castellaneta to voice the Genie. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was replaced by Joe Roth as chairman at Walt Disney Studios, Roth organized a public apology to Williams.[52] In turn, Williams would reprise the role in the second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, in 1996.[53]

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bold made me lol
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Civil War was very good. It’s extremely tense and dark. It’s hard to describe it as dystopian because it feels much more immediate than that. It is directed and filmed very similarly to Children of Men, which provides that feeling of vulnerability and fear for the protagonists.
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The movie didn’t really come together for me. Some cool shots/scenes, but I’m not sure yet what the point of it was.
 
MHBDemon said:
The movie didn’t really come together for me. Some cool shots/scenes, but I’m not sure yet what the point of it was.
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Didn't land for us (wife) either. They didn't do anything wrong exactly. Dark, tense, use of audio/cinematography, all of it really. There is just a lack of something. heart? Storyline? Lack of subtlety? Limited nuance?

Not sure.
 
As far as voice acting goes...

Sucks for voice talent to get muscled out of limited jobs by A list celebrities that want a big and easy (relative to being on a movie set for months) job. Their agent calls up and boom goes the dynamite. Movie marketing gets starry eyes over the voices and gives the story short shrift.
 
Watched Alien with my younger son. He only wanted to watch it because there was franchise related stuff in the Fortnite item shop. Thanks Fortnite!

My older son and i watched Cinema Paradiso. One of my all time favorites. And perhaps the cutest kid in cinema history.
 
Watched Drive-Away Dolls last night and really enjoyed it. It's super fun, kind of weird and very quirky. And it's less than 90 minutes, so it's a quick watch.
 
Checked out a few movies in the past few days.

Scarface - did not enjoy and did not finish. Just didn't think it was very good and thought Pacino was a caricature (maybe he was supposed to be?). Was also quite drunk.
Miller's Girl - Thought it was quite good and that Ortega and Freeman were both good in their roles. Defs some uncomfortable moments but that's to be expected given the plot.
Unfrosted - thought it was super fun and worth a watch.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners - really enjoyed this one and knew that I would as soon as I came across it. So if a 1970s small town Ireland, IRA, Liam Neeson drama sounds good to you then I have no doubt that you'll like it. If not then maybe don't bother.
 
Scarface is a tough watch and very, very 80s. At the time it was notable for setting an F-bomb record-- one since surpassed probably several times-- and also the violence.
 
Unfrosted - I don’t think I smirked the entire time. Despite a million cameos it’s still just really bad.

Late Night With The Devil - agree with the poster who said the first and last 10 minutes were superfluous. Its a good movie otherwise, great concept and execution.

Migration - kids Pixar movie, but I enjoyed it. Akwafina less obnoxious than you expect.

Solace - movie about Anthony Hopkins as a psychic helping investigate a serial killer. Better than I expected, the serial killer is played by a surprising actor.
 
American Fiction - Thought it was great. A little heavier than I expected, but with some solid laugh out loud moments. Jeffery Wright and Sterling K Brown were both perfect.

Anyone But You - It's a dumb rom-com that is essentially just Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell running around in bathing suits the entire time.
 
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I love Scarface and think it's better now than ever, precisely because of the whole early 80s over the top Miami vibe.

Top 10 movie for me.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
Since I really don't understand the bad reviews on this, I'm wondering if it's a generational thing that causes a lot of misses on this. It's very heavy on the 60s references.
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yeah, i thought it was a funny spoof. Seinfeld wrote it, so you should know it was going to be silly.
 
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