>long VA career>known for extreme gravely voice>84>still as good as ever how does he does it?wish we still had Tony Jay with us
For me, it's Simon Templeman.This guy can read a phonebook and make it sound badass as fuck.
>>153165423i think when you reject goymism you can win
>>153165423Tony JayMan the man was so good his absence is my second biggest hesitation anyone adapting the Legacy of Kain series behind general adaptation fucekry.
Tim CurryEvery voice role he did was a 10/10
>>153165446>>153165541These+ Michael Bell, Rene Auberjones (or however), Gary Chalk, Richard Doyle and John Rafter Lee
Kevin Michael Richardson made me want to be a voice actor (thought I'm not one now...)
>>153165423>still as good as everNot trying to be a contrarian, but I never thought he was that good. In season 1-2 of Transformers, he's legitimately one of the worst performances in the show. You can really tell he was one of those voice actors that only got roles because of their tone. Optimus Prime was his first legitimate lead role and he just didn't have the chops for it. He got so much better for the 1986 movie, however, that I'm convinced someone forced him to take acting lessons, or at least coached him for better deliveries since people were going to be paying money to see him on the big screen. This was literally him in his prime, if I may be so bold. Sadly, it was just in time for the character to be removed from the spotlight. When he got dragged out of mothballs to voice Prime in the 2007 movie, he got bad again, but in a different way. He's just too dour and wooden. Some people argue that's Michael Bay's fault for "directing" him to sound that way, but I think the simple fact of it is that the dude can't really act. He sounds like that in everything. Heck, it's exactly what he sounded like when he used to do voice overs for Toonami in the 90s. Cullen "Flanderized" his Optimus Prime voice on his own.For my money, Garry Chalk actually does a really great Prime. He captures that flicker of warmth that was present in Cullen's early performances, but backs it up with actual acting talent and range. I'm kind of sad he only ever got to take over the character for the shitty anime dubs. If he were a bit younger, he'd absolutely be my top choice for Prime in the upcoming Skybound animated adaptation. Heck, he might still be my top choice.
I can't think of my favorite voice actor right now (maybe Joe DiMaggio because he is just fun to hear all the time, maybe not the greatest range or perhaps Tom Kenny because of just Ice King, PPG, and Spongebob) but Joe Alaskey is one of those voices that when I think about it, I associate as THE voice of major characters for a whole decade but then when you look at what they did for those voices in the projects they were in, you start to realize they didn't put out as much or were as prevalent as you thought. Like I imagined him to be the 00's voice for Looney Tunes as Jason Griffith was for Sonic for that time. They felt definitive but then there's way less then a kid imagines.
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>>153165423Cullen is interesting because he was basically semi-retired by the 2000's and just doing Eeyore and some stuff like Toonami promos. Once he started getting cast for Transformers nostalgia is when he started doing more work again, ironically around the time he lost the Eeyore gig. If not for the 07 movie he probably would've just been retired by now after the Toonami gig like how He-man's VA just dropped off after the 90's
>>153166982Ironically I much prefer Season 1-2 Optimus more than anything after because he's got way more personality. yeah 86 movie had more gravitas, but he got more flat personality wise. and every Cullen Optimus since the 80's has just been based off the 86 movie style.
There's many VAs that I like. I will always love Kevin Conroy. My favorite piece of my collection is BTAS trading card signed by him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLrhXvAb0c
>>153167093>If not for the 07 movie he probably would've just been retired by nowAnd he only got the 07 movie because once word got out that Bay wasn't considering him, fans went BALLISTIC.
>>153166982>>153167123Young Cullen's Prime sounded like a big metal John Wayne, and the character was fun and goofy, because that's what the show was (I mean fuck the Autobots surf in the pilot episode and that's the least goofy thing that happens in the series) the movie turned Prime into "srs bizness leader Prime!" which has been becoming more intense ever since. I mean shit Transformers Prime has a minor subplot that "Primes don't party" and they have to be serious stoics all the time. Cullen's early Prime isn't bad, it's just that he isn't playing the character with a giant metal stick up his ass yet.Also Cullen's Ironhide is totally him doing a DeForest Kelley as a cowboy impression.
Dan Castlenetta
>>153167826>Cullen's early Prime isn't bad,I think it has the same problem as his later performances. It's very stilted and monotone. It's just that it's stilted and monotone in a lighter way, while his post-Bay performances are stilted and monotone in a serious way. Cullen's Prime has always had rigid cadence and lacked range. It's just that in G1 he sometimes says stupid/silly things instead of just speaking in movie taglines, and people mistake that for actual acting.
>>153168211It’s sort of a feature and not a bug I’d say. The Toonami producers talked about how they liked giving Cullen these out there things to say because his voice speaking slang sounds amusing.Yeah he doesn’t have the most emotional performances, but you’re going to him the tone more than anything
Mark Hamill. I honestly think that people who don't think he was the best Joker are just being contrarian.I mean, it's the iconic version of the Joker from the iconic cartoon. Massive influence on everything that came after that.
>Scroll through catalog>See picture of real person>Immediately get frozen with terror for a second wondering if they diedit's not just me right?
>>153168637I wish Joker had better episodes in BTAS. Mask of the Phantasm and Return of the Joker were both incredible though.
>>153168637Hamill only gets shit on these days because of his politics.
