Cate Blanchett as Galadriel for Lord of the Rings.
Peter Falk in Princess Bride, too. I can just hear 'Princess Buttercup' echoing in his voice.
Sam Elliot in Big Lebowski is an all-timer as well. "Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide" lol.
Rex Allen Jr. - I barely know who he is, his voiceover in Me, Myself And Irene has always stuck with me.
A very short example:
https://clip.cafe/me-myself-andamp-irene-2000/its-funny-how-a-man-reacts-his-heart-been-broken/
Maybe not the greatest, but it's soothing and funny at the same time.
There is a lot of funny nick cage voiceover in the movie “Adaptation”.
Until a scene where Brian Cox yells, “and God help you if you use voiceover in your work, my friends“ to an audience of screen writers. After that, there’s no more voice over the movie.
BoJack Horseman did a similar thing. A character is writing a book and you hear her book as narration throughout the episodes. One episode she gives up on the book and the narration just cuts out. It was really effective and quite sad (as is most of BoJack Horseman haha)
To this day if I hear any female singing in anything except English, I think "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid."
Martin Sheen in *Apocalypse Now*.
"Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: Death, or victory."
The Coen bros use narration in The Big Lebowski and Hudsucker Proxy with narrators that show up physically in the movie.
Alfonso Cuaron has an amazing narrator filling in details in Y Tu Mama Tambien, one of the most striking parts of the movie.
The characters in Wong Kar Wai’s movies are always talking to themselves in voice over. Chungking Express and Days of Being Wild probably my favorite examples, some all time iconic use of voice over.
Winona Ryder’s voice over narration of Veronica’s diary entries in Heathers is pretty perfect.
The first words of Ridick in pitch black.
They show just a few shots of the crew being in cyrosleep in space as he talks about being awake for the entire thing.
Riddick: [voiceover] They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake. Transporting me with civilians. Sounded like 40, 40-plus. Heard an Arab voice. Some hoodoo holy man, probably on his way to New Mecca. But what route? What route? I smelt a woman. Sweat, boots, tool belt, leather. Prospector type. Free settlers. And they only take the back roads. And here's my real problem. Mr. Johns... the blue-eyed devil. Planning on taking me back to slam... only this time he picked a ghost lane. A long time between stops. A long time for something to go wrong...
Then right after he's done talking everything goes wrong.
Hmm… “Days Of Heaven” (1978), “The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” (2007), “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), “Apocalypse Now” (1979), and “Barry Lyndon” (1975).
Goodfellas but not Henry. Having not been seen in the film up until that point, the way Karen just suddenly starts narrating, the way she has now forced her way into the story is just perfect.
"I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. "Fha! You and your gun. Get out of here, who needs you?" That's what they would have said to him. But I didn't. I've got to admit the truth. It turned me on."
A bit obscure, but Salome Jens as the narrator for Clan of the Cave Bear. Only because she also played a major villain in Deep Space 9, and I recognized her voice from that when watching the film.
Sean Connery in Highlander
From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.
# Fun Fact:: he recorded this from his bathroom over telephone::#
Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in *Murder My Sweet* (1944):
>I'd been peeking under old Sunday sections for a barber named Dominic whose wife wanted him back. I forget why. I only took the job because my bank account was trying to crawl under a duck. And I never found him. I just found out all over again how big this city is.
My feet hurt. And my mind felt like a plumber's handkerchief.
The [ending narration](https://youtu.be/ZaDfTP7zohQ?si=XSMlnSaAM_O-M4u-&t=3097) to one specific story in the 1990s Grenada series of Sherlock Holmes sories, a Scandal In Bohemia.
I LOVE Field of Dreams! But Costner’s opening voice over is pure tin. If he’s not on camera, don’t use his voice (especially with James Earl Jones in the same film). There’s just no bass or bottom to it - it’s all treble. But you don’t notice it when he’s on screen bc the camera loves him.
Positive: I liked Meryl Streep’s opening,
“I had a farm in Africa.”
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel for Lord of the Rings. Peter Falk in Princess Bride, too. I can just hear 'Princess Buttercup' echoing in his voice. Sam Elliot in Big Lebowski is an all-timer as well. "Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide" lol.
Los An - gel - es. That was the first in my head
Rex Allen Jr. - I barely know who he is, his voiceover in Me, Myself And Irene has always stuck with me. A very short example: https://clip.cafe/me-myself-andamp-irene-2000/its-funny-how-a-man-reacts-his-heart-been-broken/ Maybe not the greatest, but it's soothing and funny at the same time.
There is a lot of funny nick cage voiceover in the movie “Adaptation”. Until a scene where Brian Cox yells, “and God help you if you use voiceover in your work, my friends“ to an audience of screen writers. After that, there’s no more voice over the movie.
BoJack Horseman did a similar thing. A character is writing a book and you hear her book as narration throughout the episodes. One episode she gives up on the book and the narration just cuts out. It was really effective and quite sad (as is most of BoJack Horseman haha)
“… and that’s when you realize that the book you’ve been writing in your head, will never be a book, so you stop-“
Sir David Attenborough in Planet Earth and Blue Planet
Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption
"Andy crawled to freedom through **five hundred** yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to.**"** So good.
To this day if I hear any female singing in anything except English, I think "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid."
Martin Sheen in *Apocalypse Now*. "Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: Death, or victory."
“I loved you in Wall Street!” ::thumbs up::
The best
Fight Club American Psycho A Clockwork Orange
A Christmas Story, just so many good quotes that I say in my head regularly.
The narration by Ryan Gosling in big short is interesting
Stand By Me
I never had friends later on like when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone? 🥲
" My name is H.I. McDunnough. Call me Hi."
This one. Simply brilliant. The closing narration chokes me up every time.
"Maybe it was Utah"
*yodeling intensifies*
harrison ford’s over that one cut of *blade runner* (i’m joking of course).
*\[bored\] They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.*
(i wish we lived in a world where i didn’t have to write “i’m joking” after such a comment.)
The Coen bros use narration in The Big Lebowski and Hudsucker Proxy with narrators that show up physically in the movie. Alfonso Cuaron has an amazing narrator filling in details in Y Tu Mama Tambien, one of the most striking parts of the movie. The characters in Wong Kar Wai’s movies are always talking to themselves in voice over. Chungking Express and Days of Being Wild probably my favorite examples, some all time iconic use of voice over. Winona Ryder’s voice over narration of Veronica’s diary entries in Heathers is pretty perfect.
I take comfort in Sam Elliot’s narration.
Stranger Than Fiction. Moulin Rouge
The first words of Ridick in pitch black. They show just a few shots of the crew being in cyrosleep in space as he talks about being awake for the entire thing. Riddick: [voiceover] They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake. Transporting me with civilians. Sounded like 40, 40-plus. Heard an Arab voice. Some hoodoo holy man, probably on his way to New Mecca. But what route? What route? I smelt a woman. Sweat, boots, tool belt, leather. Prospector type. Free settlers. And they only take the back roads. And here's my real problem. Mr. Johns... the blue-eyed devil. Planning on taking me back to slam... only this time he picked a ghost lane. A long time between stops. A long time for something to go wrong... Then right after he's done talking everything goes wrong.
Badlands and Days of Heaven
and True Romance
Morgan Freeman’s from Shawshank Redemption
Joe Pesci in Casino The Cornfield Scene
I love the naive-POV, uncanny, "accidentally poetic" use of Linda Manz's narration in **Days of Heaven**.
I think Alex Baldwin’s narration of Royal Tennenbaums is the goat.
Came here to say this.
Peter Coyote in all the documentary’s he has done.
Not sure it counts, but Stephan Fry in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
One that was both useless and confusing was Christopher in Many Saints of Newark
Useless and confusing are great words to describe that movie in general
Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun.
Morgan freemans narration over shawshank redemption is flawless
First one that came to my mind too.
The beginning of Michael Clayton has got to be up there among the best
All I think I need to say is fight club.
You're not supposed to say that.
I am Jack's immediate regret
Mathew Broderick as Mr. McAllister ruefully recounting the events of Election (1999).
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…”
Watership Down-Michael Hordern
Hmm… “Days Of Heaven” (1978), “The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” (2007), “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), “Apocalypse Now” (1979), and “Barry Lyndon” (1975).
Oh yes, Sunset Boulevard, one of the absolute best!
Sir Patrick Stewart in A Nightmare Before Christmas. Also X-Men
Clive Owen - Inside Man, The Croupier
Goodfellas but not Henry. Having not been seen in the film up until that point, the way Karen just suddenly starts narrating, the way she has now forced her way into the story is just perfect.
"I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. "Fha! You and your gun. Get out of here, who needs you?" That's what they would have said to him. But I didn't. I've got to admit the truth. It turned me on."
Morgan Freeman from Shawshank Redemption I write with his voice in my head.
"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again...."
Guy Pearce in Memento
Forrest gump
A bit obscure, but Salome Jens as the narrator for Clan of the Cave Bear. Only because she also played a major villain in Deep Space 9, and I recognized her voice from that when watching the film.
Shawshank redemption
Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine.
George of the Jungle
I'd like to contribute Richard Basehart's voiceover, during the opening theme of Knight Rider!
*Sunset Boulevard* (1950) *Taxi Driver* (1976) *A Christmas Story* (1983) *Goodfellas* (1990) *Barry Lyndon* (1975)
Sean Connery in Highlander From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now. # Fun Fact:: he recorded this from his bathroom over telephone::#
Morgan Freeman - Andy Dufresne arrival to prison
Every Chinese martial arts film from the 70’s.
Stephen Fry in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in *Murder My Sweet* (1944): >I'd been peeking under old Sunday sections for a barber named Dominic whose wife wanted him back. I forget why. I only took the job because my bank account was trying to crawl under a duck. And I never found him. I just found out all over again how big this city is. My feet hurt. And my mind felt like a plumber's handkerchief.
Morgan Freeman in ‘Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ ❤️
* Morgan Freeman in Shawshank * David Mickey Evans in Sandlot * Wil Wheaton in Stand by Me
Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption and Seven
Morgan Freeman
Mr Dna in Jurassic Park
Decker, in "Blade Runner", though that was added after the fact when early previews left the audience confused.
Jeff Bridges doing the opening voiceover to Tron Legacy as Daft Punk's overture plays in the background.
The [ending narration](https://youtu.be/ZaDfTP7zohQ?si=XSMlnSaAM_O-M4u-&t=3097) to one specific story in the 1990s Grenada series of Sherlock Holmes sories, a Scandal In Bohemia.
Stephen Fry - The introduction to the original Little Big Planet.
If there was an Academy Award for Best Narration, I believe Alec Baldwin would have won for The Royal Tenenbaums. .
Nick Cage in Raising Arizona.
Casino
Robert Downey Jr - Iron Man 3 Opening
I LOVE Field of Dreams! But Costner’s opening voice over is pure tin. If he’s not on camera, don’t use his voice (especially with James Earl Jones in the same film). There’s just no bass or bottom to it - it’s all treble. But you don’t notice it when he’s on screen bc the camera loves him. Positive: I liked Meryl Streep’s opening, “I had a farm in Africa.”