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Jennifer Connelly?


Now don't get me wrong, I liked 9: it was original, dark, and well-crafted in its animation.
However, there is one thing that bugs me about the voice acting:
Christopher Plummer was definitely the best out of all of them as 1.
Martin Landau was also quite good as 2, though maybe needed a few more lines.
Elijah Wood and John C. Reilly were about equal with each other as 9 and 5.
Crispin Glover was good as 6, but did not have enough lines to truly stand out.
Fred Tatasciore was fine as 8, but is a veteran voice-actor in his own right.
3 and 4 were nearly the best, as they did not have voice-actors and conveyed more emotions through physical movements.

But WHO had the idea to choose Jennifer Connelly as the voice of 7?
She didn't sound anything like an accomplished actress in this role: she sounded over-dramatic, strained, and fake, with the emotions in her voice sounding forced in comparison to the other actors.

Surely they would have picked someone else? I would have taken someone like Meryl Streep, or Emilie de Ravin, or even Scarlett Johannson over Jennifer Connelly!

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Why do you hate Jennifer so much?

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I don't HATE her: I consider her to be quite a good actress.
I just didn't find her believable in this role.

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Hmm... I didn't notice anything wrong with her performance.... I was actually rather thrilled that she was working again...

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her skills peaked in the double ended dildo scene

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Hahaha, yep.
This is gonna be off topic from your comment but it reminded me of something I read online about that scene. Apparently it caused her quite a bit of trauma and she became reclused for a bit after it. The director pushed her way too far.
But she can't complain compared to those porn stars who really are taking double dildos up their butts (yes 2 dildos into 1 butthole!), everything in her scene was at least faked while filming such a hollywood movie.
Same thing with Naomi Watts, in Mulholland Drive's angry lesbian sex scene she said she was pushed past her boundaries by Lynch and some of that anger you see in the scene is her real emotion. She's getting pissed from having to do multiple takes of such a degrading scene for her. Said she was also traumatized by it.
Personally, its these scenes where hot actresses are pushed too far and you actually see some real emotion from them, that makes it quite hot!

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That's going waaaay too far. I take it you've never been sexually traumatized. There's nothing hot about it and it's the #1 leading cause of PTSD in women. I don't have anything against porn because the actresses are choosing to be objectified. But if Watts and Connelly were really bothered by it, not cool to make light of it.

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Quite a misogynist, aren't you?

Perhaps when they are done filming the scenes they should then cook your dinner and provide some real sex to you. Then go wash the dishes they didn't wash earlier because they were too busy nagging you to go mow the lawn.




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I personally enjoyed her performance of as 7 and thought she did a great job. She was very expressive as 7.

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Her expressions and voice sounded a bit forced sometimes for me.

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Scarlett, really?... 7 would've ended up sounding really dull if they chose Scarlett to be honest. I mean I love her as an actress, but she just sounds extremely quiet and intimate, more sexual than dramatic.
I thought Jennifer Connelly was a good choice.
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I like Jennifer Connelly generally, I hated her performance in this film. I cringed during the whole movie when her character spoke, it was terrible, lifeless and surprisingly dull.

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The OP didn't find her believable?
What did you expect from an animated film about rag-dolls? How believable can it be?

If it was real actors then maybe you could have complained, but not in this.

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She's a pretty girl but, she always sounds that way. LOL This was just the first time you noticed.

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Whenever a post starts with "Now don't get me wrong", I think I've got you correctly.

Goodbye.

Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.

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I can't imagine another actress would make Jennifer's character anymore convincing, but each to there own. You got to admit they did a good job of making her up physically, because she looks just as convincing as the other sack dolls, LOL.

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Jennifer Connelly can do no wrong!

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