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why did so many of the actors complain about being a part of this?


I just read this


"featuring the voice talents of Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy and Eric Idle, among others, in what can best be described as an 80-minute toy commercial. They were all in it for the money. Welles told his biographer about the film, "I play a big toy who does horrible things to a bunch of smaller toys." Idle admitted in his book, The Greedy Bastard Diary, that he had hated every minute of production. "Why did I do it, again? Oh, right, they offered me oodles of cash." He also said that he never even watched the movie, and makes a habit out of it with such roles. It is rumored that Leonard Nimoy was so embarrassed about it that he refused to address it for years afterwards, whether in interviews or at science-fiction conventions. Only Michael Bay's interest in casting him as The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen prompted him to talk about his role, and then only briefly (and he also said that Bay could call him up if he wanted to, but Bay ultimately went with Tony Todd because of his guest appearance in Batman The Brave And The Bold). Nimoy was however later cast as Sentinel Prime in Dark of the Moon."



for *beep*'s they were just reading lines off a paper in a sound booth. How "miserable" of an experience could it be? *beep* whiners

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Orson Welles and Leonard Nimoy are dead so who cares what those losers think

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LOL, harsh, but strangely acceptable.....



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it wasn't a box office success so the actors may have missed the fact the film was actually very good
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The fact that future transformer films with optimus prime, continue to be made show the legacy. the film is terrific and the actors should really look back with pride on their contribution to it.

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He was also in a wheelchair and had issues getting around. His health was going downhill quickly in his last year or two (from what I understand)... so while he had his opinion about doing the role... he still did it, and they did everything in their power to make him comfortable voicing Unicron. Didn't they even say his voice was SO low they had to really 'up' the recording as best they could just to hear a lot of what he voiced?


3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers... it was Drandul, dude!

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