View Full Version : The new voice of Garfield the cat is... (drum roll)
Brandon Pierce
05-28-2003, 05:37 PM
Bill Murray. Someone at The Entertainment Board confirmed it.
Hmmmm.... I just don't see Bill Murray voicing Garfield. Maybe if he used a deep enough voice....
I still want to know who the guy was that voiced Garfield in that LitterMaid commercial. It certainly wasn't Bill Murray. At least it didn't sound like it.
Corrado
05-28-2003, 06:30 PM
From what I've read about Garfield's plot, I hope the film is a flop. I don't think anyone can top Lorenzo Music.
This is kinda off-topic, but I think as much as I like Bill Murray, he was one of the worst Update anchors.
Daniel P
05-28-2003, 06:58 PM
This movie sounds really bad... First of all, only Garfield will be animated. Odie will be a real dog, with computer-animated lips for when he is talking.
Jon Cooke
05-28-2003, 08:34 PM
This movie sounds really bad... First of all, only Garfield will be animated. Odie will be a real dog, with computer-animated lips for when he is talking.
Wait a second... Odie *talks*?
-Jon
Daniel P
05-28-2003, 09:08 PM
Wait a second... Odie *talks*?Well, yes, according to workers on the movie. None of the animal's lips should move at all, but Odie shouldn't be talking period.
Pietro
05-28-2003, 09:44 PM
Bill Murray's great, but I just don't think he'll work for Garfield as well as Music did.
And a live-action dog doing a talking Odie.....it's something nobody should be too thrilled about. :o
Looks like yet another Hollywood disaster:p
-Pietro:D
Thad Komorowski
05-28-2003, 10:02 PM
Aren't most recent/upcoming movies Hollywood disasters any way?
rmarti3926
05-28-2003, 10:18 PM
Isn't it ironic? Here's another character played by Murray and Lorenzo Music (Peter Vakman's the first.)
Matthew Hunter
05-28-2003, 10:24 PM
Yeah, this looks like trouble waiting to happen. Garfield doesn't talk at all in the comic strip, he thinks and Jon understands him through his face. Look at any of the dozens of book compilations of Garfield strips at the book store...especially the early ones. Jon and the other human characters are the only ones who actually talk. I think this whole movie idea would have worked a lot better in animation, like the tv show and holiday specials.
And don't get me started on how the strip itself has gone to Hell in a bucket. Where the heck did the supporting character cast go?! and do Jon and Garfield ever leave the house anymore?!
-Matthew
absolutpaul
05-28-2003, 10:40 PM
I agree. I love Garfield, but the strip is now boring and repetitive. Garfield does NOTHING but sit on the table, and Jon is ALWAYS an insane loser. It looks like they use the same 4 drawings over and over.
It's wondered about Garfield's voice in that commercial too. It's possible that Lorenzo recorded it before his death, or it's possible that they lifted his dialogue from other commercials. I can't remember exactly what he said but I remember it being kind of generic overall.
Daniel P
05-29-2003, 07:19 AM
The strip has been downhill for a couple years now. Jim Davis likes to boast that he has never taken a day off in his life. Listen Jim: You need to take a break! Come back with some fresh ideas... Bring back the supporting cast. Odie is getting rare now too. Let Jon and Garfield leave the house!
Daffyfan2003
05-29-2003, 07:46 AM
Isn't it ironic? Here's another character played by Murray and Lorenzo Music (Peter Vakman's the first.)
I was about tho bring that up. I also want to mention, that in later years, Peter Venkman was voiced by Dave Coulier who just imitated Bill Murray.
Daffyfan2003
05-29-2003, 07:53 AM
First of all, I agree with Brandon that it couldn't have been Bill Murray who voiced Garfield in the LitterMaid commercial. It just didn't sound like him. As good as Bill is in his movie roles, (Ex: Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Space Jam) I really can't picture him voicing Garfield.
I kind of agree with Dacp and Paul about the strip. These days it's just Jon trying to get a date or Garfield watching TV. Jim Davis need to bring back some concepts like Jon going out with Liz the vet or Garfield mailing Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Heck, we don't even show as much as Odie as we used to.
Yeah, I don't know if this "Garfield" movie is a good idea, especially without Lorenzo Music voicing him.
Daniel P
05-29-2003, 07:55 AM
Okay, here's the official word:
Geoffrey Gould, who plays a milkman in the big-screen live-action/CGI adaptation of Garfield, published an interesting set-report on his website in March 2003: "Only Garfield [will] be CGI. The other well-known and beloved characters would be actual cats and dogs, their lips computer animated to speak, a la Cats and Dogs and such. Instead of the grey tabby that is the kitten Nermal of the strip, they are using a very pretty long-haired Siamese cat."
From animated-movies.net
rodney
05-29-2003, 09:15 AM
[QUOTE='dacp3']The strip has been downhill for a couple years now. Jim Davis likes to boast that he has never taken a day off in his life. [QUOTE]
Jim Davis actually doesn't do much work on the strip anymore. Rough pencilling, I think is the extent of his work.
Daniel P
05-29-2003, 09:43 AM
Jim Davis actually doesn't do much work on the strip anymore. Rough pencilling, I think is the extent of his work.That could be an explanation for how horrible the strip is now.
Check out today's strip, tell me it's not repetitive...
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/cx/uc/20030529/ga/ga030529.jpg
Greg Method
05-29-2003, 03:08 PM
Jim Davis actually doesn't do much work on the strip anymore. Rough pencilling, I think is the extent of his work.
I've heard the opposite, that he still writes the gags but has his anonymous "Paws Inc." artists draw the strips.
rodney
05-29-2003, 03:11 PM
That may be the case. I know his involvement with the strip is minimal now. I may have gotten the story wrong, I saw it on a CNN piece around the time that Charles Schulz died.
Atoon
05-29-2003, 08:49 PM
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000527.gif
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1988/ga881114.gif
Retaking the subject, I think that a good voice for Garfield could be made for Sandro Larenas, the chilean voice :yawn: I don't know if he speak english, but Jim Davis says that he is the best international voice for Garfield.
Matthew Hunter
05-29-2003, 10:43 PM
Heheh...I have seen the Snoopy-in-the-mirror one. The other one, I haven't...when was that published? Nice tribute to Charles Schulz.
Personally, I think Garfield's best era was its run in the 80's until about 1995, and after that it really got repetitive and bland, and with the exception of a few really funny gags, the strip started to be more and more about one-liners and insults than about story and visual humor. I haven't cared for it at all in the past few years, because it's just jokes about how fat and lazy Garfield is and how pathetic Jon is. So? Odie's dumb and Nermal's cute, but they don't poke fun at them day in and day out.There is no plot and no story, which it used to have. Not even the longer Sunday strips are very good anymore.
I think it needs to be rethought...like, maybe it would breathe some life into the concept if Jon finally married. Some of the best Garfield strips Jim Davis did, in my opinion, focused on Jon and his various unsuccessful dates.
-Matthew
Matthew Williams
05-29-2003, 11:12 PM
I'd probably place the strip's decline closer to '92 or '93, when they started to move away from the extended narratives and towards generic "gag a day" strips. Just got worse from there, basically.
Much better than the strips, in my opinion, were the Garfield animated specials and, of course, Garfield and Friends. While the comic was getting exceedingly bland, the animated series had some of the best, wittiest writing and plotting ever seen on Saturday Morning television. Everyone who's ever seen the short "Mistakes Will Happen", knows what the word Gazorninplat is, or fears... *gasp*... THE NETWORK, knows how great Mark Evanier's writing was. He should have been drafted to the strip's writing staff long ago, IMHO.
lucky
05-29-2003, 11:18 PM
I don't see Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield either. His voice is a bit too high. It's too bad that the guy who did Garfield's original voice died.
I'd probably place the strip's decline closer to '92 or '93, when they started to move away from the extended narratives and towards generic "gag a day" strips. Just got worse from there, basically.
Yeah, I would probably start the decline around 1991 or '92 myself. And while it did indeed become just a generic "gag a day" comic, there was also another problem. Over the past 10 years or so, Jon has gradually turned into more and more of a joke. He used to be just a minor dork, but now he's just totally unrealistic and pathetic. And not funny at all.
IMO, the peak of Garfield was probably the early to mid-80s. Even today, I read strips from those years and still laugh out loud at times.
Mike
Daniel P
05-30-2003, 07:25 AM
The strip has sucked since around 1992. It's too dull and repetitive. No Nermal, no Arlene (where did she go?), no Odie almost, no Jon's family, no Liz, no mice, no Irma...
Much better than the strips, in my opinion, were the Garfield animated specials and, of course, Garfield and Friends. While the comic was getting exceedingly bland, the animated series had some of the best, wittiest writing and plotting ever seen on Saturday Morning television. Everyone who's ever seen the short "Mistakes Will Happen", knows what the word Gazorninplat is, or fears... *gasp*... THE NETWORK, knows how great Mark Evanier's writing was. He should have been drafted to the strip's writing staff long ago, IMHO.
"Mistakes Will Happen" is a HILARIOUS episode, I remember that one time I watched it with a pad and a pen, and wrote around 40-50 mistakes.
Corrado
05-30-2003, 08:43 AM
"Garfield & Friends" was a pretty good cartoon show. Among some of the highlights were the constant in-jokes, the guy who misprounced Jon Arbuckle's name, "Mistakes Will Happen", and they even mentioned NBC's fall schedule a couple of times.
Also, "US Acres" was funny as well.
Daffyfan2003
05-30-2003, 09:49 AM
"Garfield & Friends" was a pretty good cartoon show. Among some of the highlights were the constant in-jokes, the guy who misprounced Jon Arbuckle's name, "Mistakes Will Happen", and they even mentioned NBC's fall schedule a couple of times.
Also, "US Acres" was funny as well.
I agree completely. I still watch repeats of "Garfield and Friends" occasionally. It was hilarious. They should bring it back with new episodes. Of course, they still would need to cast a new voice for Garfield.
About the strip, I sort of thought Jim Davis did everything. I guess that was kind of a dumb thought since I heard about the PAWS, Inc. staff. I should have realized Jim doesn't pay them just to sit around and eat bon-bons all day. Lol. Anyway, yeah, the strip would be so much better if Jim did more work on it. Maybe we should all right to PAWS, Inc. and tell them our thoughts.
lucky
05-30-2003, 11:13 AM
Yeah, G&f was a good show. speaking of which, I'm trying to look for the title of one of their cartoon shorts. This was when Garfield, Jon, and Odie had some problems with their TV and in the end they go to Japan to get it fixed.
Anyone know what the title is?
dendawg
05-30-2003, 01:20 PM
Yeah, G&f was a good show. speaking of which, I'm trying to look for the title of one of their cartoon shorts. This was when Garfield, Jon, and Odie had some problems with their TV and in the end they go to Japan to get it fixed.
Anyone know what the title is?
This might answer your question.. :)
Garfield and Friends Episode Guide (http://povonline.com/Garf%20Episodes.htm)
lucky
05-30-2003, 02:36 PM
No luck, yet. It's been so long since I've seen the episode.
The only thing that I can remember is that when in Japan, Garfield is dressed as a ninja and threatens the TV repairman when he refuses to fix John's broken television set. If this is helping anyone, let me know, and if you have any screen captures of Garfield as a ninja, let me know as well.
Any episode of G&F that had interaction with audiences was great, specially "Jumping Jon" which featured "Great Moments of Stupidity" ("How you throw a stick and the dog brings it back, and you throw it, and he brings it back, and you throw it, and he brings it back, and you throw it... wait! who's being stupid here?")
Daniel P
05-30-2003, 07:32 PM
More bad news...
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=120
Thad Komorowski
05-30-2003, 07:36 PM
This might be our most off-topic thread ever.......:p
Jason Furness
05-31-2003, 03:09 AM
Yeah, G&f was a good show. speaking of which, I'm trying to look for the title of one of their cartoon shorts. This was when Garfield, Jon, and Odie had some problems with their TV and in the end they go to Japan to get it fixed.
Anyone know what the title is?
I have it!
You're thinking of "Guaranteed Trouble", featuring the first appearance of Mad Man Murray.
Pietro
05-31-2003, 09:30 AM
This might be our most off-topic thread ever.......:p
No, not as off-topic as the "My Little Pony" thread:p
-Pietro:D
lucky
05-31-2003, 01:25 PM
I have it!
You're thinking of "Guaranteed Trouble", featuring the first appearance of Mad Man Murray.
Really! Thanks! Say, do you have the episode on tape?
dendawg
05-31-2003, 07:21 PM
This might be our most off-topic thread ever.......:p
How so? Some people consider "G & F" a classic, this is a board for classics, so therefore, it's not off topic. :p
How so? Some people consider "G & F" a classic, this is a board for classics, so therefore, it's not off topic. :p
Agree. Garfield & Friend is, as I like to call it, a "Contemporary Classic".
Mibbitmaker
06-02-2003, 03:06 AM
Possibly Garfield (the strip) had it's 1st Jump of the Shark when he got those furshlugginer BIG FEET.
Gradual decline from the mid/late '80s on. The current Garfield must be contagious: Boondocks caught its characters-doing-nothing disease.
Bill Murray doing the voice... yeah, the gang over at alt.tv.snl aren't too happy about it, either.
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