So... Virginia Tech just posted this on their YouTube channel:
The full video will be shown tomorrow at the Spring Game.
...and queue your favorite Bad Lip Reading videos below.
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Oh. My. God.
Words right out of my mouth. This could be incredible.
My only reaction after reading some of the comments in the other posting
Couldn't watch it fast enough
I've noticed Paul Rudd popping up a lot on TKP recently, yet I haven't seen him in anything for a while. Am I missing something?
I personally quite enjoy him. I admit, I'm extremely excited for Ant-Man.
Oh yeah I really appreciate his sense of humor. I like his roles a lot. I just haven't seen him in anything big lately and he's all over TKP. I have absolutely no problem with that. Just an observation.
Nice. Can't wait to see it tomorrow.
Why is the full thing not up yet!?
For those at the game did they play it?
They did. The ending is spectacular.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Olfxrn-dRQ
Here it is.
This is amazing. Nice little "zing" at the end, there.
I love it. My favorite was "You got pepperoni?" [Your location?] "Military Bowl"
Why would they use girls to voice any of these guys, especially Dadi? Definitely detracted from it.
Have you never seen the NFL bad lip reading videos?
Seen almost all of the BLR videos. They're great. Just rewatched to confirm, and NONE of the NFL ones have women doing voices of players, only female reporters.
The whole point is to not only try and "guess" what they're saying, but to make it sound completely different from the person. Hence the bad lip reading.
Generally, it seems like they try and match the accent to make the lips matchup better. And at least with Peyton and Shannahan, they do voices that are about as close as they can get to mimicking the actual voices. But they don't swap up genders. Ever. Because that's ridiculous. The point is to line things up so that the audio seems like it is what is being said, based on lip reading. Part of that is having the voice be at least somewhat realistic, which adds to the humor. In no universe does Dadi Nicholas sound like a 20 year old white girl from northern Virginia. So that detracts from the humor.
I'm ok with it. It still entertains me. You might be right, having a deep voice saying 'i'm coming after you....where'd he go?' might be funnier, but i think we're splitting comedic hairs at that point
Not buying it. Why can't girls lip read? Anyone could do it. It's more what they say than who says it IMO.
Entirely okay. Not trying to sell it. I voiced an opinion, some people took exception, I tried explaining my reasoning for disagreeing. I get that most people probably don't care either way, but for me, details matter. But that's just me. You have your own opinion, and I'm cool with that. To each his own.
agreed. I don't take exception to your opinion and didn't downvote, but I think that the downvotes are a product of the possibly percieved insensitivity to your comment.
I agree that details matter but I guess for me it's what is being said and how it's being said. The "who" doesn't really matter to me because anyone can lip read badly. For instance I think it would be funny if they had people that were obviously from other countries speaking English. I could see Japanese, Russian, Irish, Cockney, etc working really well for it comedically. It won't be anywhere close to the real voices but could be damn funny.
I can understand the downvotes, I'm not going to argue against them. I didn't intend it to sound sexist, but maybe it came off that way. But given how the actual BLR videos are, compared to this, throwing a girl in seems forced. Like they had the girl read lines for the sake of including a girl. If it had been targeted uses (like having her voice just Dadi in different spots, giving it some continuity) to make it funnier, that would be one thing. But from my spot, that's just not how it came off. I wasn't knocking the girl herself, she did a good job. I wasn't saying women can't do BLR. Just that, to me, in this video alone, the use of her voice was not done in a way that added to the humor, and so I found it to be a distraction from the dialogue itself. As for the funny accents, that can work really well, but again, it's gotta be done right or it comes off as forced.
It makes more sense for guys to lip read guys. The whole point is to make it seem like they're saying it themselves, which doesn't work as well if it's cross gender.
I don't think it's supposed to sound different. None of the NFL BLRs sound different, the point is that it's supposed to sound like they're saying the ridiculous things themselves.
You're getting downvoted but I agree with you. It's not a sexist thing, the point of Bad Lip Reading videos is to make it sound like the original guy is saying the crazy things, so they match the voice the best they can.
At least that's what the original NFL BLR videos did.
I agree the NFL BLR's are like this. I guess my point is that if everything had to be exactly like source material entertainment would be incredibly boring. I see no reason why anyone can't lip read badly and thus be used for something like this. Just because the NFL did it one way doesn't mean that we could not do it another way.
It could have been all female lip reading and still been funny. No one has commented on the fact that the men in that video sound nothing like those they are lip reading for either, so I really don't see the issue.
Is this the best BLR video I've seen. No of course not, but I don't believe it's an issue of who was doing the lip reading. It was more the content and execution. The OSU zinger at the end was done very well. Would it have been less so if a woman read it? No, I don't think so, because it's about what is bieng said. And again the man who did read it sounds nothing like Beamer, as per what you say is the point of BLR videos, yet the zinger still resonated both to Hokies and non-Hokies.
The last bit was fantastic
I imagine it drew a reaction from those in attendance at the spring game.
It certainly did
I saw that it got a lot of hate on Reddit. But oh well, it can be ours to enjoy.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Oxymoron would mean it's inherently contradictory. I think this is just inherently redundant.
Touch
I hope they play it at the first home game