News 'Awesome Planet' coming to The Land pavilion

aladdin2007

aladdin2007

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Figments Friend said:
I am glad this is happening, and a new film within this venue will be welcome.

Just please keep those fantastic carpeted walls in the entranceway / waiting area.
Those walls are works of art...and one of the last remaining 'EPCOT Center murals' left!

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I agree, though still not a fan of the generic title, but oh well right.
 
MickeyMouse10

MickeyMouse10

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I'm glad they are replacing the movie in the Land theater. I felt like I was going on a guilt trip when I saw the last one. I'm surprised they didn't show Donald Duck choking to death on oil.
 
prberk

prberk

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QuasiNoFroyo said:
I have zero clue. And literally anyone could be chosen as its narrator as far as I'm concerned.
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You know, it might even be time for Disney to go back to their classic ways, and simply use the best voiceover artist for the project, not a celebrity necessarily. Think how The Haunted Mansion and Pirates and Country Bear Jamboree would sound today if they had relied on celebrity voices of the era, rather than the "right" voices for the ride.
 
MickeyMouse10

MickeyMouse10

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prberk said:
You know, it might even be time for Disney to go back to their classic ways, and simply use the best voiceover artist for the project, not a celebrity necessarily. Think how The Haunted Mansion and Pirates and Country Bear Jamboree would sound today if they had relied on celebrity voices of the era, rather than the "right" voices for the ride.
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I concur, I definitely concur. It is better to get a perfect voice over a celebrity. Occasionally you can have both, but its usually better to go with a mainstream unknown. This way the narrator's outside life doesn't overshadow their own attraction at all.
 
Brer Panther

Brer Panther

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prberk said:
You know, it might even be time for Disney to go back to their classic ways, and simply use the best voiceover artist for the project, not a celebrity necessarily. Think how The Haunted Mansion and Pirates and Country Bear Jamboree would sound today if they had relied on celebrity voices of the era, rather than the "right" voices for the ride.
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This is a thing that I agree with. Very, very much. Disney's been doing this sort of thing with their movies and TV shows as well. I don't dislike the idea of celebrities doing voice acting in general (there are a lot of celebrities that are good at it), but there's such a thing as too much. Not everybody has a distinct voice that lends itself well to animation, and just because someone is a good live-action actor doesn't mean they're going to give a good voice performance. There was no point in casting Shakira as a character in Zootopia who barely has any screentime or lines, and does Disney really think somebody not in the target audience of Mickey and the Roadster Racers is going to watch it simply because it's got Jay Leno voicing a recurring character?

Of course, with theme park attractions there doesn't seem to be as much of a reliance on celebrities. I could be wrong, though.
 
prberk

prberk

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Brer Panther said:
This is a thing that I agree with. Very, very much. Disney's been doing this sort of thing with their movies and TV shows as well. I don't dislike the idea of celebrities doing voice acting in general (there are a lot of celebrities that are good at it), but there's such a thing as too much. Not everybody has a distinct voice that lends itself well to animation, and just because someone is a good live-action actor doesn't mean they're going to give a good voice performance. There was no point in casting Shakira as a character in Zootopia who barely has any screentime or lines, and does Disney really think somebody not in the target audience of Mickey and the Roadster Racers is going to watch it simply because it's got Jay Leno voicing a recurring character?

Of course, with theme park attractions there doesn't seem to be as much of a reliance on celebrities. I could be wrong, though.
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MickeyMouse10 said:
I concur, I definitely concur. It is better to get a perfect voice over a celebrity. Occasionally you can have both, but its usually better to go with a mainstream unknown. This way the narrator's outside life doesn't overshadow their own attraction at all.
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And that is exactly why I think that the theme park rides, which are meant to last decades, should have the right voices no matter whether the live actor is known as a celebrity or not. For how many years was Paul Frees' voice so familiar in the park before anyone except the truest geeks knew his name?

Same is really true for animation. Some voices in classic animation were known (Phil Harris in "Jungle Book" and Sebastian Cabot in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"), but most others were not. Now even those names are lost to later generations, but their voices still work in the films, because they were the best choices for the characters -- not chosen for name recognition.

Disney is best when it goes for timelessness, not for current pop culture. Leave that to DreamWorks and others who go for the short-term gains at the expense of staying power.
 

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