Why Is Steven being Dubbed?!
WTF is steven being dubbed???
Does anyone know why?!
He used to speak for himself in his earlier movies...
I was horrified too. My friends and I love watching his movies, but this one is just sad. We all wondered what was with the dubbed voice too. My friend seaerched the internet and this was one site's explaination on the subject. It might not be correct, but after watching the movie, I wouldn't be surprised. I needed closure on what the hell I justed watched. Check it out if you wish.
http://www.qwipster.net/attackforce.htm
In the begining it sounds a bit of a southern drawl and then he returns to normal and then southern again. And he is also 100 pounds overweight.
shareYes, yes, yes we know he's a little heavier than usual, we can see that. So what? It's been done to death, this mentioning his weight. Boring, boring, boring. What the hell difference does it make what weight he is? you'd think you could find something better to do with your time than coming on here repeating the same old tripe we've all heard a hundred times before. Just give it a rest, will you!!! Enough already.
shareListin lola-hamilton, I agree that they keep talking about it and drives me insane but I would like him to at least lose enough weight to do his own fighting again. I mean, he uses stunt men to do his own fighting and that is stupid. If Steven just lose some weight to do his own 1990's style fighting then I happy okay.
Any way with this voice dubbed thing, first off, would somebody give me a reason why Seagal is allowing this, just because he is making DTV films don't mean that his voice should get automacially dubbed. So, would any of you give a very good reason that is voice gets dubbed please?
The word on the street is that Segal is a little less than forthcoming during the post-production process.
sharehe's done this before in another movie, I can't remember which, but its sure annoying
shareSteven sounded like Martin Sheen half of the time >_<
"If you're strong you live,if you're weak you die!"
~Sojiro Seta from "Rurouni Kenshin"~
he has asthma which pervents him from running long distances and some speaking
Wow! You suck!
The real reason is the following: Often Dialogue is being changed after principal shooting has ended. Seagal, having to do a lot of movies now to get some money, is often not available to do the real ADR.
But in my opinion they could have at least tried to find someone with a voice that sounds at least somewhat like his. I must be possible to find someone who doesn't sound that different.
BTW: I am just watching the movie for 30 minutes now. I just checked imdb.com because of the dubbing problem. But Seagal must have been happy with the outcome of this movie, because his next one is directed by the same guy.
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Oh and another thing: First: He isn't always available. Second: They pay him so little nowadays that he isn't that happy to do more work for jumpchange..
Try not - do or do not, there is no try!
I was a Seagal "die-hard-fan"... but, sincerelly... it is almost untolerable.. to watch his lattest movies.
My God, what happened ???
What about those excellent movies from the 90's ? Under siege, Above the Law, out for justice - to name a few...
Mr. Seagal, please, do not become a "prostitute" with your career, and with your fans !!!
Try to find a better production team, better contracts...
These dubbed movies... they are the worst kind of movie's I've ever saw!!!
It is unnaceptable.
I might accept that as an explanation if it wasn't for the fact that he is the producer of these movies, too.
share:) real reason
shareThe reason is none of the above in the case of this film. The real reason that the producers dubbed in almost all of Seagal's dialog in this case was that they changed the story completely AFTER filming was completed and Seagal was off the project! For some f-up reason they decided to change it from a story about vampires from outer space to some crap about a super drug. They couldn't afford to bring Seagal back in to do the overdubbs and I don't think he wanted to do it for any price any way. He liked the film's original story and did not want it changed. But, he had no control over what the studio and distributors did with the film after he'd fulfilled his contract.
No, the REAL reason in this case is that the film's producers took a finished film about an alien-vampire invasion and changed it to one about people turned into killers by a super-drug. And they did this after the fact by re-dubbing the dialog and doing reshoots with the least expensive actors. Seagal was already long gone from the project--which he had considered finished--when the producers decided to change the entire film.
The Seagal dialog that's redubbed is that in which Seagal refers to Aliens. They just redubbed with another actor spouting the "CTX" dialog.
I know it sounds stupid--cos why would they think that sci-fi vampires would sell better than drugs? But I know they did this for a fact. All you have to do is Google the original film's original title, "Harvester," and "Seagal" you'll get all kinds of articles from 2006 that will describe the then-upcoming film as an "alien invasion" sci-fi pic. Also read the Attack Force chapter in Vern's book "Seagalogy: The Ass Kicking Films of Steven Seagal" in which the screenwriter of the film confirms this fact.
Thanks for the info. Its so sad that Seagal is making so many B-movies now. An actor's only as good as the script and the director. This director obviously has no clue how action scenes are done. They have ZERO tension and the characters are all 1 dimensional.
shareNow that you say it.. you are totally right. I knew that he sounded like someone I knew. Yeah, he totally sounded like M. Sheen.
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Try not - do or do not, there is no try!
Glad I am not the only one to hear Martin Sheen...But that was just pathetic...The only reason to watch him now is his bad acting.....and I couldn't even enjoy that.
Good Cop and Bad Cop left for the day.
I'm a different kind of cop.
Sojiroseta52 , that's exactly who I thought he sounded like too!!
shareHe was too lazy to do the re-dub, just like the acting in this movie is lazy. He's not even trying anymore.
shareThe scenes where he just changes voice are hilarious. Notably when he was interrogating the black girl, it started with the dub, then Seagal for a sentence then back to the dub! Hilarious movie!
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