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Bad Audio, DeNiro interrupted by random voice actor...

posted 10 years ago by Silverhawkins
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Anyone else notice that the audio was really badly done in this film? Especially towards the end. The scenes amongst the undergrowth in the wood were distractingly devoid of ambience. I also caught another actor voice one of DeNiro's lines:

If you listen around the 1:31:30 mark, the camera cuts away from DeNiro mid-sentence and you'll hear someone else's voice entirely say "your fiance" and then the sound continues as DeNiro. Very weird.

I felt like they spent their entire budget on the two leads, and both of those guys were just phoning it in.

"oh mummy, oh daddy - lets all play Kabadi!"

[–] ToonsNTeases 10 years ago

Yup, I came on here to post about this very thing. That "your fiance" line is SO UNBELIEVABLY badly mixed that I can't possibly imagine that the filmmakers even played back the movie (or at least not that scene) for themselves before releasing it to the public.

[–] Silverhawkins 10 years ago

I agree. A miracle that nobody else a) picked up on it and b) seriously evaluated this movie prior to its release

"oh mummy, oh daddy - lets all play Kabadi!"

[–] acertificate 10 years ago

Good job noticing that. I didn't notice upon first watching. After listening I think it is possible it is DeNiro's voice, but is obviously overdubbed and if it is his voice they should have used a different soundbite or something!

[–] melinda2001 9 years ago

Yeah, I thought it was De Niro but assumed they spliced it from either a different take, or was hastily recorded much later. Either way, it's pretty horrible.

[–] The_Mob_Has_Spoken 9 years ago

I also caught this one. I was thinking: Wait a minute! Who said that? I know it wasn't De Niro and I know it wasn't Cusack. Is there somebody else out in the woods with these two? De Niro could have literally phoned this line in. Pure laziness.

"Ass to ass. Ha ha ha ha. ASS TO ASS!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5z77EI8y0

[–] threepwoodsrevenge 9 years ago

I toured a studio lot once, and when inside the ADR rooms, there was a voice actor replacing words and entire lines for well-known actors. I forget who he was doing at the time. I was told it's cheaper to bring in a SAG voice actor than to get the actual star in for minimum SAG per diem (I hope I'm saying all that correctly)—Samuel Jackson's day rate would be through the roof compared to someone who can imitate his voice.

Not saying this is what happened here, but it was an eye-opener for me that it was even done at all.

[–] Marginal_Crogeny 8 years ago

Jack Nicholson hasn't done ADR in decades. Anytime they need to redo any of his lines, he just says "Tons of people can do me. Get one of them".