And I'm not referencing those ones. I'm referencing the ones that seemingly HAVE to drop scathing insults at Welker's expense any & every time they talk about liking Weaving, and whilst doing so, insinuate that anyone who didn't like Weaving's voice are just little geewunners stuck in the past or whatever other nonsense. It's ridiculous.
Oh! No, in that case: I understand if people didn't like Weaving's voice. And Welker is one of the best voice actors alive.
If anything, this reflects worse on Bay than on Weaving, since it only further shows the lack of attention that was devoted to Megatron as a character. Weaving's performance was fine, but within the boundaries of the script and the direction, there's only so much he would be able to bring to a character with very little true screentime and few memorable lines. It's another way that shows the unused potential of what Megatron COULD have been in the Bay films.
While Welker could've easily done his Prime voice for the film Megatron, and I would've been perfectly happy with it, Weaving really delivered on this Megatron, despite his lack of involvement with the role. We've known about his lack of involvement for some time; he didn't even know about DOTM until it was mentioned to him in an interview in 2010. Still love what he gave us as Megs; in ROTF and DOTM, he definitely came into his own, to nearly David Kaye and Corey Burton-level Megatron.
villianess?? did Megatron havce a sex change? It is unusual to not have the director there when the voice actors film their lines
...I see what you did there. I don't understand what this pissing contest even is. Welker and Weaving have both done an excellent job as far as I'm concerned. It obviously doesn't matter how "involved" Weaver was considering the final result. Ironically, I feel it is his RotF performance that really stands out as excellent, because he gets to have some emotions other than anger or weariness.
It's odd how you can play the major villain in a trilogy of movies from such a distant position, both physically and metaphorically -- much less actually be GOOD at it. I guess it goes to show how skilled Hugo Weaving is at acting. Either a typo, or Hugo is even more oblivious to his role than we thought.
Glad to see honest answers from Weaving. I'm surprised he even accepted it, since the transformers were more scenery that fought than characters, IMO.
I think Weaving's done a fine job in the three films, but if he were to leave and be replaced with Welker, that'd be fine with me. He used basically his Prime Megatron voice for the Universal ride and I thought it was pretty effective there.
Prime's Megatron is very distinct, Welker brings character and class to Megatron as he always did. Megatron was never just a villain, he had layers that were just seldom seen. My favorite quote so far... "...I think that's the last we'll see of Dreadwing." One thing I always enjoyed is Megatron's grudging respect for Optimus that has been absent until the Prime series. Random Rant: Bay did not respect either Optimus or Megatron in the movies: Optimus a shining knight and example of honor, strength, and thoughtfulness -changed into a pit-fighter that kills downed foes and rips their faces off. Megatron once Proud, Calculating, Commanding -changed into a knee-bender that takes council from human girls, they treated him like Osoma Bin ladin, and had him hiding in taters in the desert. WTF Did you even watch the 86 movie bay? NOBODY COMMANDS MEGATRON! ...and Optimus would always hesitate to kill a downed foe.... at least, hesitate.
Maybe if he cared about what he was doing, he wouldn't have sounded so generic. This really shows how crap these films are. The Director didn't care, the main villain's actor didn't care. Did anyone other than Peter Cullen care?
I don't recall Bay ever saying he didn't care. And until you find evidence of him saying so you can't assume that fact. You know, nobody who worked on G1 gave a damn. The writers openly admit to writing shit scripts just to get paid. Don't see any whining and crying over that. But he's far from the best Megatron voice. Then again it's not his fault one of his most generic voices became such a memorable role.
He said himself that when he was first approached for TF, he thought it was just some stupid toy commercial but then he was put through "Transformers school" and started liking it. You can't care about something you've only been briefed over the history of. And G1 was nearly thirty years ago. It's too late to do anything about them now. But the films are still being made. Wait. You're saying Welker's scratchy, almost artificial voice is more generic than Weaving's grows? I think you're letting your hate for G1 blind you.
What, all of it? I seem to see Split a lot in the comics forum. HAting the G1 cartoon, that I get, but for a TF fan, hating G1 is like hating DNA.
I meant the G1 cartoon. Split Lip herself said nobody who worked on G1 gave a damn without clarifying she meant the cartoon.