Everyone about Chris Pratt right now

FYI: I have a degree in digital media and audio production and some of you need to know what ADR is.

Automated dialogue replacement

It means that most and/or everything you hear in professionally produced films is dubbed over with voice acting.

Boom Mics are used to record things said during filming so that the actors can (sometimes months to a year later and/or after the actors have had training on certain accents) record the same lines they performed in the scene based on the script they are given. This is done in a recording booth and with the same methods as voice acting in video games/anime/and animated movies.

I'm not saying that Chris Pratt should have voiced Mario, good god I wish we could remove him from Hollywood for good, but I do promise that he has done voice acting. All the face actors have. All those 'ha's and 'ack's are done in a booth. Every scene has approximately 0 of the original recorded audio while filming playing in the final release. Even sex scenes. Each actor has to then make all those sounds again in a booth later.

Most voice actors were also filmed actors or still are. Travis Willingham is a prof voice actor but he was also in the film Secondhand Lions with Robert Duval. Talasin Jaffe was in HOUSE MD and Mr. Mom.

And Kung Fu Panda is a good example of wildly talented hollywood actors doing voice acting and absolutely nailing it. All of them gave a performance that couldn't be replicated to the same level, and I know, I watched Kung Fu Panda: The Legends Of Awesomeness, in its entirety.

The problem is not that famous Hollywood actors can't do voice acting correctly, many do it very well(Idris Elba), it's that the studios are more interested in getting a Hollywood name to voice Mario, and not Charles Martinet. Because Travis Willingham or Colleen O'Shaughnessey don't have their faces on cereal boxes or toys with their likeness being sold to children.

This isn't (usually*) a talent problem, it's an extention of the situation when Disney screwed over Robin Williams. It's about companies not caring who actually does the best job, but whose name they can flash on the screen biggest.

*Benedict Cumberbatch definitely had months to perfect his Dr Strange accent so he has no excuse at all.

Charlie Day Luigi: HERES A-MY BROTHER MARIO NOW TO TELL YOU A WHOLE-A HEAPING SPAGHETTI PILE OF INFORMATIONI!!! Chris Pratt Mario: Hello Luigi.

Can't wait for Bowsers 1 hour saxaboom solo in the new movie!

Thoughts on Chris Pratt as Mario:

People have spoken: Big Turtle Man better than Small Brooklyn Guy.

As much as everybody's justifiably railing on Chris Pratt for his acting, after watching the new trailer I honestly don't think Anya Taylor-Joy is a very good fit for Peach either. The problem isn't that they're bad actors, it's that they are not voice actors. When I hear Anya's or Chris's voice I don't picture Peach and Mario, I picture two regular adult people who wouldn't stand out in a coffee shop. Which isn't the point of animated movies and voice acting! ESPECIALLY with Mario! This is supposed to be a movie about cartoonish characters in a video game fantasy world saving the day, and their voices should fit with that theme. That's why Charles Martinet's Mario voice works so well, because it makes sense for what Mario is supposed to be. This trend of giving voice acting specific jobs to non-voice actors who have no experience with this kind of work is detrimental to animation and film! It is removing job opportunities from people who have spent their lives learning this craft and handing it over to a celebrity with no experience just because they're famous. The beauty of voice acting and animation in general is how you are completely creating a character. The whole point of voice acting is that you don't point to a character in a film and say, "hey, that's Chris Pratt" the point is that people will point to the charcater and go "oh, new character!" This movie is more and more frustrating to me the more I realize how much it feels like a money grab exclusively because of the casting. The animation, the music, and the effects are all completely perfect for a Mario movie, but so many of the acting choices feel like someone just rifled through a list of "100 most popular celebrities" and chose whoever was vaguely similar to "average white man voice" or "average white woman voice". No matter how popular these people are or how good they are at acting in front of a camera or on stage, they can not voice act.

Mario’s about to be the most least interesting part of his own movie just you wait