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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2007, 11:05:20 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 29, 2007, 09:28:52 pm
oh god... they will give them all horrible voices and will ruin it forever.

All Nathan Lane as the voice of Chucklebot... all Juliette Lewis as the voice of Molly...
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2007, 11:21:19 pm »
You know they'd get Dane Cook and Seth Green involved.

You just know this because the world is an awful place.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2007, 11:56:18 pm »
oh god
oh god... no

they couldn't...
the children! THE CHILDREN!

Someone would be voiced by Carlos Mencia, for some reason.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2007, 11:59:10 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 29, 2007, 11:56:18 pm
Someone would be voiced by Carlos Mencia, for some reason.
"Starring Carlos Mencia as Envelópe Martinez."
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2007, 12:05:47 am »
Quote from: Dexter on December 29, 2007, 11:59:10 pm
"Starring Carlos Mencia as Envelópe Martinez."

Heh! That would be pretty awesome. Tiny can por tu, Señor.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2007, 12:23:34 am »
Quote from: linnea on December 30, 2007, 12:05:47 am
Heh! That would be pretty awesome. Tiny can por tu, Señor.
I dunno, man.  The implication I was angling for with "starring" was that an Achewood movie, if done Hollywood-style, would be butchered in order to give an originally minor character a more major role because said character is voiced by someone famous.

This is not to say that I don't appreciate the can!

In any case: an Achewood movie would be pretty weird I think, even if they didn't give everyone terrible voices that would ruin it forever as inev fears.  I mean, I just can't imagine Onstad's extremely spare art style translating well to animation, and any embellishments (like, oh, I don't know, colors or backgrounds) would take away from some of the appeal in my mind.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2007, 01:47:57 am »
Quote from: Dexter on December 30, 2007, 12:23:34 am
I dunno, man.  The implication I was angling for with "starring" was that an Achewood movie, if done Hollywood-style, would be butchered in order to give an originally minor character a more major role because said character is voiced by someone famous.

This is not to say that I don't appreciate the can!

In any case: an Achewood movie would be pretty weird I think, even if they didn't give everyone terrible voices that would ruin it forever as inev fears.  I mean, I just can't imagine Onstad's extremely spare art style translating well to animation, and any embellishments (like, oh, I don't know, colors or backgrounds) would take away from some of the appeal in my mind.

Mencia would be a pretty good choice for Envelópe. I can assure you, Virginia. THEY WILL NEVER MAKE AN ACHEWOOD MOVIE. If they did, they would never get mainstream stars to play characters for Ray and Beef. A minor actor such as Mencia would be a perfect choice for a supporting role.

I can't even remember where Envelópe is from, but I think he's Central/South American. Isn't Mencia Mexian/Honduran?
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #22 on: December 30, 2007, 04:43:11 am »
yes, he is mexican or something central/south american. also, he is obnoxious and unfunny and should not be with a mile of anything I like, ever. we actually have a legal agreement where he will not eat mexican food, and in return, I won't make threatening phone calls to his house late at night.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2007, 05:17:49 am »
Basically, they could use anyone in the cast of "Dazed and Confused" for voices and... that's it.

No other "name" actors.

I have no idea why I'm so ardent about such a random idea but there we are.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2007, 05:36:41 am »
that movie... wow. It was so good. I was surprised.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #25 on: December 31, 2007, 08:40:23 pm »
Voicing? I believe you are thinking in an insufficiently Hollywood direction.

It would be adapted as a live-action film about two non-cat childhood friends who get together to roll the Great Outdoor Fight. No alive stuffed animals or anthropomorphic cats would be involved.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2007, 08:50:29 pm »
Ben! Don't be such a stranger.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2007, 08:54:10 pm »
and it would end up not being in any way called or related to Achewood. it would be called, say, "The Fight." no one would know what happened to "the achewood movie" we were promised.

...I forget what book-to-movie this happened for? something I was looking forward to at the time.
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #28 on: December 31, 2007, 08:59:04 pm »
The only way we will know that the movie we're watching originated with Onstad is Steve Buscemi's character screaming "NORTHWEST CORNER STEP ON IT STEP ON IT."
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Re: Book Lag
« Reply #29 on: December 31, 2007, 09:18:29 pm »
Everything funny and awesome about the action of the Great Outdoor Fight would be rendered ghoulish and awful by taking the mass carnage amoungst drawings of anthropomorphic cats and making it the ugly slashing and crushing deaths of real-looking human people.

So... of course that would be how it happened.

Of course the studios would make it into "300 for Hipsters!"

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