I generally prefer proper voice actors to hollywood stars. Ghibli works turn out well enough, but I suspect if they spent that same amount of money on professional VAs and allowed the team to focus on quality instead of speed and low cost, it would be much better.
Almost the entire budget of Princess Monoke's North American release was spent on celebrity voice actors lol. I think they paid Billy Bob Thorton more money than the actual film cost to make. Stephen Spielberg picked up the tab, though. He really wanted it to get distributed outside of Japan.
I generally prefer proper voice actors to hollywood stars. Ghibli works turn out well enough, but I suspect if they spent that same amount of money on professional VAs and allowed the team to focus on quality instead of speed and low cost, it would be much better.
Almost the entire budget of Princess Monoke's North American release was spent on celebrity voice actors lol. I think they paid Billy Bob Thorton more money than the actual film cost to make. Stephen Spielberg picked up the tab, though. He really wanted it to get distributed outside of Japan.
And Thornton fucking sucked in that.