As an old school fan am still upset about DAVID KAYE not being Megatron. Its like if Lucas had someone else do the voice for Darth Vader.

FIX'D. At least, that's what I was saying before the movie. Now I don't really care.

 

As for Welker voicing Megatron in the muvee? Sorry, having the main villain sound like Fred from Scooby Doo = FAIL.

 

Besides, it's not like he needed the work.

I like welker but His Meg's is too cartoony

meh to meh factor of infinity.

I rather liked Weaving as Megatron (although an after thought I had was Jeremy Irons would have been just as good, they're both good at that kind of role as far as the vocals are concerned).

 

And I watched the special feature on the DVD where they showed Megatron calling Starscream a failure (using audio from the Gen1 cartoon), and then putting it to the part where he does it in the movie, comparing Welker and Weaving, and having the game with Welker voicing Megatron, it's just off in more ways than one.

Sorry...I preferred Weaving for my Movie Megatron.

 

Yeah, Welker might be good for G1 Megatron or Soundwave (if the character appears in the second movie) or pretty much most of his other roles.

 

But I like Hugo for Movie Megs

I much prefer Hugo Weaving's voice for Megatron over Welker's. Welker's Megatron voice is IMO too cartoonish. I loved Weaving as Megatron. Now I'm not sure if Megatron will even appear in TF2 (and I don't want to know - so no spoilers please!) - personally I hope not, after having killed Megatron in TF1 I think it would be cheap to bring him back so soon. If Bay wants to bring Megatron back, save it for TF3. Let Starscream have his moment in the Sun. They could possibly bring Megatron back at the very end of TF2 as a kind of "cliffhanger" or lead to TF3... it'd be a cool "Easter Egg" scene to see in the ending credits, eheheheh.

 

Welker auditioned and didn't get the part.

 

Weaving audtioned, got the part, and did a great job.

 

Excellent point.

 

Basically in any contest there will always be a winner and many losers. Weaving and Welker auditioned (as I'm sure several other actors would have as well) and Weaving got the job.

 

Y'know, I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but when they announced that Peter Cullen would be Prime I was actually a bit worried that it wouldn't sound as well-acted and instead just sound very fanboy-ish. Of course I was wrong, he voiced the part well and it wasn't just fanwank, but the fear crossed my mind.

And as Bay said on the DVD, Cullen did actually audition for the role and he got it through on his own merit. :)

 

 

P.S.: This clip shows Weaving's Megatron voice without electronic modification. It's also interesting to see that Megatron did originally have at least one line in Decepticonese but it obviously didn't make the final cut (he's the only Decepticon that exclusively speaks in English).

 

Weaving for life!

 

-note to Welker proponists, please don't kill Hugo...

Weaving's voice really brought movie Megatron to life. I see no reason to change it.

If you want Weiker, go watch the cartoon and let the Fans of the Movie have the better of the Megatron voices...I honestly wish that Hugo would have done the game also. :07evil :07evil :07evil

Sorry...I preferred Weaving for my Movie Megatron.

 

Yeah, Welker might be good for G1 Megatron or Soundwave (if the character appears in the second movie) or pretty much most of his other roles.

 

But I like Hugo for Movie Megs

*I* can do G1 Soundwave's voice... and so can you. Just do a Dr. Claw voice and run it through a Vocoder. voila!