Filmmaker Richard Levine, working from his own screenplay, delivers an opening stretch that admittedly doesn't hold much potential, as the writer / director places an excessive emphasis on narration from both Tucci and Timlin's respective characters - with the seemingly ceaseless
voiceover making it initially impossible to work up any interest in the characters and their exploits (ie neither Ted nor Angela are developed beyond their most obvious attributes).
Imagine I made a video where I recreated World 1 - 1 of Super Mario Bros., and then added
a voiceover making fun of Mario and calling everything stupid.
Finally, we see a glimpse of what appears to be Eli and an identical twin while
the voiceover makes mention of «Les Enfants Terrible», aka, the Big Boss cloning program.
Not exact matches
For instance, Ocho is the first social network to introduce
voiceover and volume control because that's what we felt was necessary to
make good UGC [user generated content] video.
When Mad Men Season Six opened with the first two lines of Inferno in
voiceover, viewers who recalled Dante from college
made of it... various things that seemed pretty clever.
And you don't even have to guess which restaurant recently ran an ad with a
voiceover that drolly says: «Unless you
make your own corned beef, [name of restaurant] is the best place to get a Reuben.
As has been previously reported, he's using his own in - house operation, Ellicott Advertising Company, to
make his ads, which have up to this point been no - frills affairs that feature still shots, a
voiceover and straight - to - the - camera testimonials from the candidate.
Yamaha's exclusive Clear Voice technology results in crisp, clean sound that will
make TV narrations, podcasts, and
voiceovers sound lifelike and crystal clear.
The best thing about this seemingly normal makeup tutorial, by far, is that Madelaine Petsch's boyfriend does the
voiceover, which
makes for pure comedy since he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
At the end she is pictured with her eHarmony partner, while a
voiceover says: «Being single can be amazing, so if you're going to give it up, it has to be for someone who
makes being a couple the best thing in the world».
Manifesto's visual inventiveness and Blanchett's multifarious performances
make the movie consistently engrossing, even when the relationship between Blanchett's character and the words coming out of her mouth — or, more often in this version, spoken by her in
voiceover — seem purely arbitrary.
The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also
makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in
voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).
But where Bruce Willis» stilted noir - ish
voiceover gave Sin City an air of The Maltese Falcon, here Macht's hardboiled dialogue just
makes The Spirit a turkey.
The movie begins with Jackman reciting The Lord's Prayer in
voiceover while Keller teaches his teenaged son to shoot a deer, which
makes you fear that a heavy - handed pretentious movie is ahead.
The film opens pleasantly enough, with
voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man -
made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.
After a touching scene in which jockey Pollard is fed a bowl of soup by Bridges's self -
made businessman, McCullough prattles on about the glory of FDR's social programs, his
voiceover accompanied by black and white photos of men at soup kitchens.
There are a ton of familiar voice cameos, some doing their original characters (Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian), and even Freeman is goofier as Vitruvius and
makes fun of his
voiceover seriousness.
Yes, «The Choice» includes the following elements that would
make it very easy to mock: — An opening
voiceover in which Travis (Benjamin Walker of «In the Heart of the Sea») declares, «Now, pay attention,»cause I'm about to tell you the secret to life...
He speaks of the concessions he
made to accommodate Ford's much - publicized desire to be more of a gumshoe and dispels the notion that the infamous
voiceover was imposed on him, confessing that he agreed to it out of concern that he was losing his audience.
In a cinematic field that often struggles with exposition, overacting, and clumsy
voiceovers in an attempt to communicate what characters are feeling, it's hard to imagine an approach better suited for the big screen than externalizing the internal, and
making it thrilling at the same time.
It doesn't
make sense to cast her for a simple
voiceover, unless she had filmed scenes and were all cut out of the final edit.
In
voiceover, Bettany explains exactly what his character feels at every moment, even when the action onscreen
makes it clear.
With one great film to his credit, forty years ago, he now
makes his living doing
voiceovers extolling the virtues of barbeque sauce for an offscreen director unable to explain exactly what he needs from him.
Why it's worth watching: Tim Robbins delivers a career - best performance and Morgan Freeman sets himself up as the
voiceover artist in every movie
made since.
«At Berkeley» For decades, Frederick Wiseman has
made slow, measured, immersive documentaries, exploring scenes and communities — a hospital for the criminally insane in «Titicut Follies,» the Idaho legislature in «State Legislature,» a Paris ballet in «La Danse,» a nude dance club in «Crazy Horse» — with a patient fly - on - the - wall approach shorn of
voiceover, interviews or any direct attempts to supply context.
This is not just the story of a daughter challenging her father on the
voiceover turf that
made him a legend, it's also about how the use of conversation and voice craft our identities.
And in Tessa Louise - Salomé's cinephiliac romance Mr leos caraX (since retitled Mr. X), the titular director talks about his work, mostly in
voiceover, with brilliance and surprising openness while ravishing clips dissolve in and out of each other,
making us hungry to see the films in their entirety again.
10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming - of - age, boy - with - a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight - faced, pretentiously sober spirituality,
made - up mysticism and reams of
voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif).
Not interested in painting a simple portrait of one man fighting the system, Poitras traces his journey from 2011 all the way through this year's election, finally admitting in
voiceover: «This is not the film I thought I was
making.»
There's also footage of trips
made to do research and compile sound effects; recording studio sessions with the original Japanese cast, including Yasuko Sawaguchi eating Kentucky Fried Chicken as she was providing the
voiceover for Chihiro's mother eating; scoring sessions with Joe Hisaishi; and even a segment about the closing credits theme song, which was originally intended for another Ghibli production that fell through.
As we hear in
voiceover, from indie singer Joanna Newsom, «these were perilous times, astrologically speaking, for dopers», though that doesn't stop Doc rolling up a fattie and getting himself all messed up in a plot so complicated, it
makes The Big Sleep look like Jackanory.
Interviews with the filmmakers and film critic Rich Holloway are interspersed with overwrought
voiceover to
make sure we remember that, yes indeed, the film is but a single, intense, almost technically impossible shot.
It Needs: To have been
made a couple of decades ago, if only so that we could have had the great Walter Pidgeon doing some of the
voiceover work.
Scorsese, it goes without saying, directs this with the fervour of a true auteur — perhaps not the most distinctive film he's
made stylistically speaking, but still propelled by inspired musical choices, bold
voiceover work, kinetic camera movements and a general structural playfulness (such as the fake television ads planted throughout the film).
Unlikely
voiceover Emma Stone puts her famous raspy voice to great use as Eep, but it is Nicolas Cage as overly zealous dad, Grug, who will
make you smile the most.
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If you're worried about having trouble following a convoluted plot, fear not, for Anthony Hopkins (Thor's father, Odin) opens the movie with an exposition - laden
voiceover,
making all clear (not really).
As Zuckerman is giving his thoughts via
voiceover, a taxi pulls up, a blonde - haired woman gets out, and, as the camera follows her from behind, she slowly
makes her way to the casket.
The cast also includes Academy Award nominees Liam Neeson, who will star in performance - capture and
voiceover as the nocturnally visiting monster of the title, and Sigourney Weaver, who will portray Conor's maternal grandmother; Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), as Conor's father; and Geraldine Chaplin, who is
making her third movie with Mr. Bayona.
As we learn in an opening expositional
voiceover (never my favorite method of delivering information), a meteorite
made of «vibranium» (strongest element on earth!)
She's first seen trying to
make Eva Longoria effect a Cockney dialect for an (obviously staged)
voiceover role, and this scene is every bit as humorous as it is intriguing.
While the scenes are beautiful to behold — and you're quite able to understand the emotion the
voiceover actors are conveying — Burning Blood's story is still one that will
make sense exclusively to One Piece fans.
He and writer William Broyles Jr. also don't employ a
voiceover or, even worse,
make Chuck think out loud; like anyone in his situation, Chuck does utter a word here and there — mostly when overcome by emotion or excitement — but for the most part, he remains silent.
A gravelly
voiceover introduces the film and is never heard from again; the debt Albert promised to pay off to get out of his first gunfight is somehow paid, although how is never
made clear; a gash Albert gets on his forehead disappears the day later.
(Oddly enough, this
makes one of its closest cousins 1982's E.T.) The film's mix of
voiceovers from Shepherd, fantasy sequences, and hyper - real depictions of Ralphie's childhood as it «actually» happened feels like a distinct influence on The Wonder Years, which would
make the movie an indirect influence on many of the single - camera comedies of the last 30 years.
It's not clear, and arguably never clear, that Shellburn's purple musing is meant as ironic (though the film's ending
makes it so), meaning the impact of the
voiceover is painfully earnest.
And about five minutes into a tedious prologue that features a novel's worth of
voiceover, blather about a virus that
makes people dangerously embrace their emotions, and a sloppy action scene of murder and fucking that included a pair of bare tits disturbingly distorting in slow - motion, I thought only, «Fuck me.»
Mattie's wry, sanctimonious narration doesn't
make the leap to the screen barring some
voiceover (from older Mattie, played by Elizabeth Marvel) in the prologue and epilogue.
What truly
makes the character fascinating however is the
voiceover performance from South Park co-creator Trey Parker; he has mentally never left the 80s, boasting his own curated selection of classic songs from the era's one - hit wonders (I'm not sure what it says about me that this animated feature has one of my favorite licensed soundtracks of the year), often grooving along to his evil doings.
His experience with Instructional Designers and Project Leaders
make him one of the most dependable
voiceover resources in the industry.