I think I would have found Aslan's voice distracting if it had been done by an actor I was very familiar with.
Amusingly enough, I asked Tony how he felt about Aslan's voice, and his response was something akin to "I heard the first few lines and immediately thought "Qui Gon Jinn!", but then I got drawn in enough that the voice didn't distract me." In retrospect, I have a feeling I did the same with Mufasa when JEJ did it -- drooled over his voice for a line or two, then got drawn into the character.
Mr. Neeson did the aforementioned Jedi and the ambiguous-at-first guy in the most recent Batman movie, both of which I've seen. For big-name movies I haven't seen, he was in Schindler's List as the title character, and in the heretical no-Eponine Les Miserables movie done a few years ago, playing Valjean.
Once I'm back from seeing erish and turnberryknkn, or perhaps when I'm back in Albuquerque altogether, I'll probably start a spoiler-heavy like and dislike discussion.
Lions and Valjeans and Lists, Oh My!
Amusingly enough, I asked Tony how he felt about Aslan's voice, and his response was something akin to "I heard the first few lines and immediately thought "Qui Gon Jinn!", but then I got drawn in enough that the voice didn't distract me." In retrospect, I have a feeling I did the same with Mufasa when JEJ did it -- drooled over his voice for a line or two, then got drawn into the character.
Mr. Neeson did the aforementioned Jedi and the ambiguous-at-first guy in the most recent Batman movie, both of which I've seen. For big-name movies I haven't seen, he was in Schindler's List as the title character, and in the heretical no-Eponine Les Miserables movie done a few years ago, playing Valjean.
Once I'm back from seeing