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Keith David breathes life into Barricade

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Postby Salazaar » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:17 pm

of course, leave it to Bay to make up the poopy designs with big name VOs.
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Postby Stormrider » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:52 pm

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I just saw a Steven Siegal movie from the 90's that had Keith David in it. Ah such memories...

I'm glad they added him to the line up for the TF movie. He has a great voice.
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BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby UltraPrimal » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:24 pm

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That's great! I love his VA work, not so much live. Except in Crash, that was a good movie and probably why they chose him to play Barricade. B/c he was bad cop in Crash, now he's a bad cop car in Transformers.
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Postby Basketball Jones » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:38 pm

I like the Barricade design and he seems to be an appropriate voice actor.

The film seems to grow increasingly solid.
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Postby Mr.RobotoAutoMan » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:42 pm

for some reason i just cant picture his voice for barricade....plz help me!!
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Postby Phategod1 » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:15 pm

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:for some reason i just cant picture his voice for barricade....plz help me!!


go to Youtube and look for Gargoyles, Men at Work starring Charlie Sheen and Emelio estevez, They Live, Spawn animated feature, and Pitch Black.
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Postby Salazaar » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:44 pm

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:for some reason i just cant picture his voice for barricade....plz help me!!


think of Spawn with a much darker and raspier tone.
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Postby Carcass » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:50 pm

I've always thought Keith David had a great voice and loved him since THEY LIVE.

Still think Barricade looks like garbage, though.
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Postby Salazaar » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:00 pm

Carcass wrote:I've always thought Keith David had a great voice and loved him since THEY LIVE.

Still think Barricade looks like garbage, though.


meh, get used to it. Megatron should be renamed:

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Postby Predaprince » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:45 pm

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Keith David rocks! Goliath Rocked!

It still remains, though, IMO, that his voice would have been better for a larger Decepticon such as Brawl as other posters have already stated. The booming and deep command that his voice sways might seem weird from a small car TF.
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Postby Ahkileez » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:01 am

Got a bit of a theory on the VA selections thus far.

It seems so far that they're choosing 'strong' voices.

Peter Cullen = Strong Voice
Hugo Weaving = Strong Voice
Keith David = Strong Voice

Frank Welker = Soft Voice

Frank Welker, despite his enormous talents, is a cartoon voice. Unless he dredges up skills we haven't seen yet, he couldn't carry a main character in this film.

Cullen, Weaving and David have very strong voices. They can project 'through' the figures seen on the screen. The movie 'formers aren't very humanoid, facially, at all. The normal visual cues aren't there so it's not enough to just take something non-human-looking and make it talk - like many films do with an animal or latex alien or regular humanized 3D figure.

In order to carry proper weight on the screen, the voice has to pull the viewer in, to make them accept the entity on the screen as real in its own right and not just pay attention to it because it's talking. A soft voice is going to have a lot of trouble with that.
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Postby Nemesis Cyberplex » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:05 am

That's a choice I am ok with. He's a good voice actor...pretty good as the Arbiter. Dosen't he also do some commercial narrating for cartoon network? I was thinking that yesterday when I was watching Riddick, which is kinda funny considering that I just watched that & now see he's going to be in the TF movie. Weird.....
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Postby Insurgent » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:24 am

So I take it they decided to give the Decepticons some dialogue then? Excellent. This movie has just gone up in my expectations.
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Postby Phategod1 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:53 am

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:That's a choice I am ok with. He's a good voice actor...pretty good as the Arbiter. Dosen't he also do some commercial narrating for cartoon network? I was thinking that yesterday when I was watching Riddick, which is kinda funny considering that I just watched that & now see he's going to be in the TF movie. Weird.....


I think he narrates those Navy Commercials too.
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Postby Predaprince » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:59 am

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Phategod1 wrote:
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:That's a choice I am ok with. He's a good voice actor...pretty good as the Arbiter. Dosen't he also do some commercial narrating for cartoon network? I was thinking that yesterday when I was watching Riddick, which is kinda funny considering that I just watched that & now see he's going to be in the TF movie. Weird.....


I think he narrates those Navy Commercials too.



That's it!

Wow, thanks. It would have bugged me all day thinking of what kind of commercial it was if you hadn't said it.

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Postby Hairball178 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:38 pm

That is awesome.
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Postby Barricade » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:45 pm

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Predaprince wrote:Keith David rocks! Goliath Rocked!

It still remains, though, IMO, that his voice would have been better for a larger Decepticon such as Brawl as other posters have already stated. The booming and deep command that his voice sways might seem weird from a small car TF.
dude they should get micheal clark duncan to play brawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or blackout!!!!!!!!!!1 i think he would be better for blackout
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Cujo wrote:dude they should get micheal clark duncan to play brawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or blackout!!!!!!!!!!1 i think he would be better for blackout


think he'd be better as brawl though
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Postby Shadowman » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:40 pm

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Salazaar wrote:
Carcass wrote:I've always thought Keith David had a great voice and loved him since THEY LIVE.

Still think Barricade looks like garbage, though.


meh, get used to it. Megatron should be renamed:

Steamingpileofshreddedtincanshitatron


That sounds remarkably like a certain "Blue Bomber" who just left us recently.

As for Keith David, I can't picture a better voice actor.

And as for Michael Clarke Duncan as Brawl, he already said he wasn't in the line up for a role. Which is sad, because he'd be awesome as Brawl.

It seems they're going for bigger names. Hugo Weaving, Will Smith, and now Keith David. Who are they going to get next? I can't think of anything, but they've had a lot of good picks.
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Postby DARKAGEIS » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:41 pm

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i heard will smith was a rumour, was this confirmed then??
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Postby Nemesis Cyberplex » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:00 pm

Shadowman wrote:
Salazaar wrote:
Carcass wrote:I've always thought Keith David had a great voice and loved him since THEY LIVE.

Still think Barricade looks like garbage, though.


meh, get used to it. Megatron should be renamed:

Steamingpileofshreddedtincanshitatron


That sounds remarkably like a certain "Blue Bomber" who just left us recently.

As for Keith David, I can't picture a better voice actor.

And as for Michael Clarke Duncan as Brawl, he already said he wasn't in the line up for a role. Which is sad, because he'd be awesome as Brawl.

It seems they're going for bigger names. Hugo Weaving, Will Smith, and now Keith David. Who are they going to get next? I can't think of anything, but they've had a lot of good picks.
Who's Will Smith going to be, Jazz??
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Postby Shadowman » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:04 pm

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Shadowman wrote:
Salazaar wrote:
Carcass wrote:I've always thought Keith David had a great voice and loved him since THEY LIVE.

Still think Barricade looks like garbage, though.


meh, get used to it. Megatron should be renamed:

Steamingpileofshreddedtincanshitatron


That sounds remarkably like a certain "Blue Bomber" who just left us recently.

As for Keith David, I can't picture a better voice actor.

And as for Michael Clarke Duncan as Brawl, he already said he wasn't in the line up for a role. Which is sad, because he'd be awesome as Brawl.

It seems they're going for bigger names. Hugo Weaving, Will Smith, and now Keith David. Who are they going to get next? I can't think of anything, but they've had a lot of good picks.
Who's Will Smith going to be, Jazz??


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Postby Jetfire Masta » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:31 pm

Damn, this guy did Goliath? I'm sold on David doing an awesome job.
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