02-20-2003, 11:37 AM | #1 |
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Has anyone seen the animated version?
Has anyone seen the animated version of LOTR? I got it for Christmas and I didn't know it even existed. I've watched it quite a few times and it is quite good. I also think it's very similar to the film, and that Peter Jackson probably got a lot of his ideas from it. Please post in and tell me if anyone else has seen it, and also what they think of it. Thankyou!
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02-20-2003, 11:42 AM | #2 |
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Yes, indeedy, I have. I thought it was good, too. Seemed to me to capture the spirit of Tolkien better than PJ's. Though I think a lot of the Mooters will disagree. (Black Breathelizer certainly would `)
There's already a topic about Bakshi vs. Jackson. (Bakshi did the animated version). This might get closed because of that; but then again, it hasn't been posted in for awhile. And of course, this topic isn't about Bakshi vs. Jackson.
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02-20-2003, 05:01 PM | #3 |
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The animated version freaked me out a bit! If it's the same one as your talking about. there is only one animated version isn't there?
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02-20-2003, 05:13 PM | #4 |
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Theres two, Bashkis weird unfinished one....and another one that was three movies. I think the other one is much harder to find tho...*shrugs*
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02-20-2003, 05:24 PM | #5 |
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Thanks! I wasn't sure! But the one i have is unfinished and it really freaks me out especially the Ringwraiths!
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02-20-2003, 05:49 PM | #6 |
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Freaks you out? Hmm. Well its very limited. And the musical aspect is just annoying. And it skips stuff. I think the Jackson films were much better. But then you have to give them credit for attempting such a thing like over 20 years before the film and when Tolkien was still a relatively underground deal compared to how it is now. Now the animated Hobbit movie was fun. That was designed more for animation really.
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02-20-2003, 06:01 PM | #8 |
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There was Bakshi's (which ends the same place as PJ's TTT. Coincidence? ), Lord of the Rings, and Rankin and Bass did the Hobbit and the Return of the King.
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02-20-2003, 07:31 PM | #9 |
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My dad says that I can't see it because it's too stupid. I asked him though.
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02-20-2003, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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how long is the animate movie
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02-20-2003, 09:52 PM | #11 |
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Personally I hated the animated version. I mean I like to pretend Middle earth is actually a place and in order to really enjoy the story (at least in my case) you have to believe it could happen. Animating it makes it seem so . . . not real. I liked PJ's better.
I know Middle Earth is not a place I just pretend it is. Um never mind I'm not here . . .
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02-20-2003, 11:15 PM | #12 |
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You know the scene with Odo Proudfoot when he says "Proudfeet"...PJ said he copied that directly from the animated version and wanted to keep that the way it was.
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02-21-2003, 11:49 AM | #13 |
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And also where they hid under the root, if I am correct.
Middle-earth IS a place. Northwestern Europe!
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02-21-2003, 02:43 PM | #14 |
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I have seen a little bit of the animated version it's fun and it's also very cool.Don't you think sam looks a bit like a wart-hog where as in the film he is sooo sweet. Anyway speek to you later
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02-21-2003, 10:14 PM | #15 |
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iahve seen the hobit made in the 60's but not he fellowship of the ring but i hope to soon! is it good? is the animation good?
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02-21-2003, 10:21 PM | #16 |
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Someone has a qoute that qoutes Ian mcklellen as saying there is a middle earth and its new zealend. Amen to that!!
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02-22-2003, 12:09 AM | #17 |
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Don't listen to him! It's really Northwestern Europe!!!
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All I got out of the animated version was,
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02-23-2003, 02:29 PM | #19 |
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AMEN Merlin! Exactly what I was trying to say. It was not very apealling. And Gwaimir well I haven't really seen either so once i do I'll let you know what I think. Where in Northern Eourope?
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I happened to see this in the library the other day, so I checked it out out of curiosity. I had seen it about fourteen years ago, and remember becoming physically sick to my stomach because I thought it butchered the story so badly. After watching it again from a more mature perspective, I found that it wasn't as bad as that. My criticisms, specifically, are these:
Sam -- horribly animated and characterized. This is one of the things that made me sick. The use of roto-scope was a very bad decision. VERY bad. It just looked too cheesy, and made the regular animation, which wasn't bad, stand out as animation, whereas if it had been completely done with traditional animation, it would have been easier to overlook the fact that it was animated (does that make sense to anyone?) The orcs -- these have to be the very worst aspect of the movie. I think this was the other main thing that made me ill. They look like a bunch of guys wearing fake tribal masks. They are so poorly conceptualized by whomever was responsible for them. The nazgul weren't much better. They practically looked palsied. The final shot that shows Gandalf in slow motion killing an orc, and all the blood shooting up out of it -- yuck, what a bad way to end the movie. Other stuff that stood out: As I said the traditional animation wasn't that bad. I did find it humorous that since it was made in the '70s, the hobbits had '70s style hair and Galadriel looked like one of the women from ABBA. But since I was a child of the '70s, I didn't mind it. I thought his flight to the ford scene was too drawn out, with several seconds of inactivity. You can use that effectively in some live action movies, but in animation, it just looks lazy. In fact, I saw a lot of little things that looked like laziness (I can't remember specifically, but just stuff like that -- bad editing, I guess, and maybe some bad sound editing). Of course the stuff people usually mention: Boromir the Viking, Aragorn the pro-wrestler (voiced by John Hurt), Legolas aka Bruce Jenner (voiced by C-3PO), a very tall Gimli, Aruman (why did they keep switching), the "barbarian" style Rohirrim, Treebeard. And of course the event stuff that was poorly changed from the book. However, it didn't make me physically ill this time, and I actually enjoyed it to some extent, so I guess I can change my former opinion of it from "terrible" to "mediocre." |
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