Voice-Over King, Don LaFontaine died

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:13 pm

Most of you may non know him by his name. But you all should know him from his voice. He was the Voice heard in many Movie Trailers and TV promos

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Negative_Creep · Post by **Negative_Creep** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:19 pm

R.I.P

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:25 pm

...Wow. Thats sad.

How are they going to do good advertisements and movie promo voices now? He was THE movie promo voice guy. :'(

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:33 pm

Oh... So that's the guy!

So bad... I want to know his name and I found it out like this?

dragonhead · Post by **dragonhead** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:39 pm

holy crap. hes dead? wow... thats unfortunate, he was really cool!

ian2120 · Post by **ian2120** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:39 pm

he will certainly be missed. But don't you guys know him from the Geico comercials?

EDIT: Srry, wrong announcer guy! not the geico one!

mothatrucka · Post by **mothatrucka** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:21 pm

No, Ian, you're right. He did do a few Geico ads. The one I remember most was the housewife talking about a flood.

"In a world where both their cars were underwater....."

Man, it's just not the same without him.

xtrmgam3r360 · Post by **xtrmgam3r360** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:29 pm

mothatrucka wrote:Man, it's just not the same without him.

Excatly what I'm thinking. I mean, not many people actually know who he was but, even so he was a legend.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:59 pm

Daww.... I gonna miss him. I heard about this today too, and several people in my speech class said I should be the next announcer guy.

SS

ian2120 · Post by **ian2120** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:40 pm

mothatrucka wrote:No, Ian, you're right...

HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!!!???? Are you stalking me??

Oh, I saw a segment on the local news, and it looked nothing like the guy. I think it was from the '70's though, judging by the video quality.

gamecube6 · Post by **gamecube6** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:15 pm

mothatrucka wrote:"In a world where both their cars were underwater....."

RIP

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:15 pm

Wow, that blows. Films and things just won't be the same...even with the myriad of impersonators out there, no matter how good they are, they just won't be able to match up to his ability to make anything epic!

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:30 pm

Imagine this is a movie trailer.

In a world where there is no Don LaFontaine..

Movie trailers will be...

A lot.

More.

Boring.

RIP.

I hope they start his eulogy with the line "In a world...". It's only fitting.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:07 pm

'Tis sad to see such a great man go. What he brought to the industry shall never be forgotten, nor under-appreciated, as he taught us all how to announce.