The Animated Movie - Page 7

gollum9630 · 02-21-2003, 12:37 AM

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Originally posted by gimli7410
i thought the goblins and the elves of mirkwood were done horribly

I know, the elves looked like pixies, and the goblins looked like big blobs.

barrelrider110 · 02-21-2003, 09:25 AM

It's apparent that the animators did not do their homework, or if they did they took way too much artistic license. I can forgive the goblins, but the elves? They looked too much like the Grinch to me. And they used Andre Previn as the voice of the Elf King! An Austrian accent! Acckk! Pppthhh!

Smaug was very well done, especially the growl-ey voice of Richard Boone. I also thought Bilbo's voice (Orson Bean) appropriate. I am old enough to be familiar with both actors, and they were very well cast.

Willow Oran · 02-21-2003, 10:04 PM

I didn't like the voice used for Smaug in the movie. We had just finished our own production of the Hobbit and we took some artistic license and played Smaug as female with eight of us doing it in chorus and the end result was much more impressive than the movie Smaug. Our Bilbo was a whole lot better too. But then... I'm probably just being biased in our favor...

gimli7410 · 02-22-2003, 01:12 AM

So wait ur making ur own animated hobbit movie?!:

when is it comin out and is beorn in it

gollum9630 · 02-22-2003, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by barrelrider110
Smaug was very well done, especially the growl-ey voice of Richard Boone. I also thought Bilbo's voice (Orson Bean) appropriate. I am old enough to be familiar with both actors, and they were very well cast.

i dont know, i didnt like there voices, to me it sounded like they had no emotion, they seemed boring.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-22-2003, 10:48 PM

I liked Smaug's voice in the animated Hobbit. Seemed very good for a dragon. Power, cunning, and malice all combined in one.

gimli7410 · 02-23-2003, 12:15 AM

smaugs voice was pretty bad it had no emphasis...and who did bard the bowman.

gollum9630 · 02-23-2003, 12:53 AM

I also HATED the gollum, it was the worst thing i have ever seen. He looked liked an overgrown frog, and Tolkien said he was closely related to a hobbit.

WiseWizard · 02-23-2003, 05:04 AM

I think the only way that Gollum could possibly look like a hobbit is if a hobbit decided to smoke a little too much pipeweed, try some mushrooms he found in the forest, take a hit of acid, dilate his eyes (not just his pupils), and then roll around in mud for the rest of the day.
In other words, you're right, he looked nothing like a hobbit.

mithrand1r · 02-23-2003, 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by gimli7410
smaugs voice was pretty bad it had no emphasis...and who did bard the bowman.

John Stephenson (I) .... Dori/Great Goblin/Bard (voice)

Here is some info on the Hobbit from http://us.imdb.com/

Full Cast and Crew for
Hobbit, The (1978) (TV)

Directed by
Jules Bass
Arthur Rankin Jr.

Writing credits
J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)

Romeo Muller

Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
John Huston .... Gandalf the Grey (voice)
Otto Preminger .... Elvenking (voice)
Cyril Ritchard .... Elrond (voice)
Brother Theodore .... Gollum (voice) (as Theodore)
Paul Frees .... Bombur/Troll #1 (voice)
Jack DeLeon (I) .... (voice)
Don Messick .... Balin/Troll #3/Goblin/Lord of the Eagles (voice)
John Stephenson (I) .... Dori/Great Goblin/Bard (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Orson Bean .... Bilbo Baggins (voice)
Richard Boone (I) .... Smaug (voice)
Hans Conried .... Thorin (voice)
Thurl Ravenscroft .... Goblin/Background Voice (uncredited) (voice)

Produced by
Jules Bass .... producer
Masaki Iizuka .... associate producer
Arthur Rankin Jr. .... producer

Original Music by
Maury Laws

Production Design by
Arthur Rankin Jr.

Sound Department
Tom Clack .... sound effects
John Curcio .... sound recordist
Bob Elder .... sound recordist
Dave Iveland .... sound recordist

Other crew
Lester Abrams .... character designer
Yukiyoshi Hake .... animator
Tohru Hara .... animation coordinator
Kazuko Itoh .... animator
Hidetoshi Kaneko .... animator
Minoru Kishida .... background designer
Kazuyuki Kobayashi .... animator
Hidemi Kubo .... animator
Tsuguyuki Kubo .... animation supervisor
Koichi Sasaki .... animation director
Lois Winter .... choral direction
Katsuhisa Yamada .... animation director
Glenn Yarbrough .... singer
Tadakatsu Yoshida .... animator

If you want info on "The Return of the King" and/or "The Lord of the Rings" goto ROTK or LOTR

Getchan · 02-23-2003, 11:35 PM

I liked all three animated movies. They're pretty cheesy, but cool in their own way. I just couldn't figure out why Elrond looked normal and Thranduil and the Mirkwood elves looked like Gremlins(remember those horrid movies?). Also, the song I like is "Where there's a whip, there's a way" from ROTK.

gimli7410 · 02-24-2003, 12:02 AM

i liked bards voice and thank you for finding that info out miranth1r. i thought the elves looked like the flying monkeys from wizard of oz

Cirdan · 02-24-2003, 12:05 AM

I thought they looked a bit like the grinch, but not green, of course.

gollum9630 · 02-24-2003, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Getchan
I liked all three animated movies. They're pretty cheesy, but cool in their own way. I just couldn't figure out why Elrond looked normal and Thranduil and the Mirkwood elves looked like Gremlins(remember those horrid movies?). Also, the song I like is "Where there's a whip, there's a way" from ROTK.

Yah, i know. that made no sense at all

Willow Oran · 02-25-2003, 01:57 AM

Quote:

So wait ur making ur own animated hobbit movie?!: when is it comin out and is beorn in it

No we didn't make a movie, it was a live theater production thing, although one of the parents did film it... (They got the "Molested" performance!

)
We did six performances at the end of last july and it was really fun, we got a lot of audience. And yes, Beorn was in it although he sadly did not make it to the battle of five armies as the actress playing him was busy playing Thranduil at the time.

Amandil · 02-28-2003, 03:24 AM

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And yes, Beorn was in it although he sadly did not make it to the battle of five armies as the actress playing him was busy playing Thranduil at the time.

That's pretty funny!

I still like that song "where there's a whip, there's a way" from the Return of the King movie. I actually liked how the goblins looked, too. Even though they're fat...

***Khamûl*** · 11-19-2003, 11:33 PM

Just thought I'd mention that I bought The Hobbit on DVD yesterday. Haven't gotten the chance to watch it again yet.

Bombadillo · 11-23-2003, 10:41 PM

My mom just told me a story about she and my dad watching The Hobbit in theatres. My mom was complaining about her hate of fantasy and the characters' voices, and my dad coundn't standing seeing the book so "gruesomely misportrayed." So it became the only movie that either one of them has walked out on.

barrelrider110 · 11-24-2003, 09:31 AM

The animated Hobbit was NEVER shown in theatres. Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings was. Lots of people walked out on that one.

samwiselvr2008 · 12-26-2003, 01:40 PM

I own The Hobbit cartoon movie, I think that it's really good, of course it could be better, and there are parts that it changed from the book that I didn't like to much, but all in all it was really good, and worth the $ to buy.

02-21-2003, 09:25 AM	#122
barrelrider110 Peer of the realm of Sanguine Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Hill, Marlton, NJ Posts: 798	It's apparent that the animators did not do their homework, or if they did they took way too much artistic license. I can forgive the goblins, but the elves? They looked too much like the Grinch to me. And they used Andre Previn as the voice of the Elf King! An Austrian accent! Acckk! Pppthhh! Smaug was very well done, especially the growl-ey voice of Richard Boone. I also thought Bilbo's voice (Orson Bean) appropriate. I am old enough to be familiar with both actors, and they were very well cast. __________________ “"I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider," Fear Complacency! ___________________ Something under the bed is drooling

02-21-2003, 10:04 PM	#123
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	I didn't like the voice used for Smaug in the movie. We had just finished our own production of the Hobbit and we took some artistic license and played Smaug as female with eight of us doing it in chorus and the end result was much more impressive than the movie Smaug. Our Bilbo was a whole lot better too. But then... I'm probably just being biased in our favor... __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

02-22-2003, 01:12 AM	#124
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02-22-2003, 10:48 PM	#126
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I liked Smaug's voice in the animated Hobbit. Seemed very good for a dragon. Power, cunning, and malice all combined in one. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-23-2003, 12:15 AM	#127
gimli7410 the dumb stoner canuck Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: canada Posts: 2,542	smaugs voice was pretty bad it had no emphasis...and who did bard the bowman. __________________ -"Down with the system"-Serj tankian of system of a down -“Humans have been on the earth for millions of years, yet we don’t believe man began thinking until he started building walls. And what good have these walls ever done us?”-Serj tankian of soad -"stupid people do stupid things"-Serj tankian of soad "Trying is the first step to failure" Homer Simpson "It isn't going to be easy"-jerseydevil "only the good die young" I AM CANADIAN If the people lead, the leaders will follow.

02-23-2003, 12:53 AM	#128
gollum9630 Canadian Guy. Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The true North Strong and Free Posts: 1,513	I also HATED the gollum, it was the worst thing i have ever seen. He looked liked an overgrown frog, and Tolkien said he was closely related to a hobbit. __________________ "Canadians are so apathetic, but, what are you gonna do about it" -Glen Foster Wierd Harry Potter quotes the old nintendo duck hunt game Lemmings Swron Random Homer Simpson Quotes

02-23-2003, 05:04 AM	#129
WiseWizard Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: the darkest region of Mirkwood (and trust me, it's really dark) Posts: 331	I think the only way that Gollum could possibly look like a hobbit is if a hobbit decided to smoke a little too much pipeweed, try some mushrooms he found in the forest, take a hit of acid, dilate his eyes (not just his pupils), and then roll around in mud for the rest of the day. In other words, you're right, he looked nothing like a hobbit. __________________ My motto: Heaven doesn't want me and hell's afraid I'll take over. ------------------------------------------------ "Upstage me and I'll crush your kneecaps!" ------------------------------------------------ "It's been a while since I've been 130." -Aaron Reichgott ------------------------------------------------ You know, the world's full of apathy...but I don't care. ------------------------------------------------ "I would've honked, but I might have hit you." -Janaki ------------------------------------------------ "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have gone to college that year." -Lewis Black ------------------------------------------------ "I have one speed which varies according to my mood." -Kristy Pihl ------------------------------------------------ "When I get a fever, I can hear my mom's voice in my head. But she's alive, not dead, so it's not as exciting." -Anna Crandall ------------------------------------------------ "It doesn't matter what your body type is, as long as you're bloodthirsty." -Rachel Carlson ------------------------------------------------- "My mind is a whirling miasma." -Jeff E. ------------------------------------------------- "I think earth is the Alabama of the universe and we don't even know it." ------------------------------------------------- "You can't just apologize the laziness of my bunnies away." -Taylor S.B. ------------------------------------------------- I'm a sadistic massochist. I'm always happy.

02-23-2003, 11:35 PM	#131
Getchan Hobbit Join Date: May 2002 Location: near the Mouths of Sirion Posts: 31	I liked all three animated movies. They're pretty cheesy, but cool in their own way. I just couldn't figure out why Elrond looked normal and Thranduil and the Mirkwood elves looked like Gremlins(remember those horrid movies?). Also, the song I like is "Where there's a whip, there's a way" from ROTK. __________________ "But I will sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song."

02-24-2003, 12:02 AM	#132
gimli7410 the dumb stoner canuck Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: canada Posts: 2,542	i liked bards voice and thank you for finding that info out miranth1r. i thought the elves looked like the flying monkeys from wizard of oz __________________ -"Down with the system"-Serj tankian of system of a down -“Humans have been on the earth for millions of years, yet we don’t believe man began thinking until he started building walls. And what good have these walls ever done us?”-Serj tankian of soad -"stupid people do stupid things"-Serj tankian of soad "Trying is the first step to failure" Homer Simpson "It isn't going to be easy"-jerseydevil "only the good die young" I AM CANADIAN If the people lead, the leaders will follow.

02-24-2003, 12:05 AM	#133
Cirdan Elf Lord of the Grey Havens Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somewhere else Posts: 2,381	I thought they looked a bit like the grinch, but not green, of course. __________________ There exists a limit to the force even ther most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. -Muad'dib on Law The Stilgar Commentary

11-19-2003, 11:33 PM	#137
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Just thought I'd mention that I bought The Hobbit on DVD yesterday. Haven't gotten the chance to watch it again yet. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

11-23-2003, 10:41 PM	#138
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	My mom just told me a story about she and my dad watching The Hobbit in theatres. My mom was complaining about her hate of fantasy and the characters' voices, and my dad coundn't standing seeing the book so "gruesomely misportrayed." So it became the only movie that either one of them has walked out on. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

11-24-2003, 09:31 AM	#139
barrelrider110 Peer of the realm of Sanguine Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Hill, Marlton, NJ Posts: 798	The animated Hobbit was NEVER shown in theatres. Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings was. Lots of people walked out on that one. __________________ “"I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider," Fear Complacency! ___________________ Something under the bed is drooling

12-26-2003, 01:40 PM	#140
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	I own The Hobbit cartoon movie, I think that it's really good, of course it could be better, and there are parts that it changed from the book that I didn't like to much, but all in all it was really good, and worth the $ to buy. __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

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