u/carbonera99

Yeah combat in fiction is unrealistic. It has to be. Adding realistic consequences to fighting and action scenes in media would completely inhibit the ability of the story to tell a story.

The character gets shot. In a story, they continue to fight while muscling through the pain and win against all odds. In real life they can’t staunch the bleeding and they die of blood loss in ten minutes. Does realism improve this story?

I’m not saying realism can’t enhance some stories. Shows like The Pitt wouldn’t work if they weren’t so true to life. There’s genuine value in prioritizing realism in a show like that. Prioritizing realism in something like John Wick would just result in a worse, unsatisfying story as John Wick becomes permanently crippled after the first movie and has to spend the next two films slowly recuperating and doing physical therapy to get back to just a normal keel of physical activity.

Voice acting is a completely different discipline than stage acting and screen acting. There’s some overlap, but they’re not interchangeable. Just because someone is a talented screen actor doesn’t mean they’ll be automatically a good voice actor. A lot of extremely talented live action actors also happen to be dogshit voice actors. Part of this comes from hiring what are essentially rookies and expecting them to perform to snuff but part of it is live action actors consistently not taking voice acting roles seriously and undervaluing the medium. They either phone it in or treat it like a joke. You don’t need to be voice director to know it’ll be a struggle to get decent performances out of people who think voice over work for animated media is kiddie shit and an easy paycheck.

You also don’t get most of the fame value that live action actors bring to the table. A large chunk of a screen actor’s brand is their appearance and recognizable face. The vast majority of the audience recognize actors by faces, not by names. Most screen actors don’t have distinct enough voices to be instantly recognizable. What’s the point of sacrificing a massive amount of budget to shell out for a famous actor when 90% of the audience won’t recognize or care that it’s their voice they’re hearing coming out of the characters’ mouth? You might as well burn that money.