03-16-2007, 03:57 PM | #1 |
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The Hobbit Animated Movie
I watched it again the other day and really enjoyed it. Even the songs did not bug me like they usually do. Opinions about this animated feature?
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03-16-2007, 04:34 PM | #2 | |
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Nice movie, allthough the elf king has erned the nickname "Too-much american football without a helmet Theranduril" here on the moot.
Of chorse I likely misspelled that... They did it well, the drawings are a little "funky" though, like Smog has fur and T.M.A.F.W.H. Theranduril...
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03-17-2007, 09:57 PM | #3 |
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I loved it!
When I was a kid way back in the seventies, it was the only tolkien on the screen, and I looked forward to it every time I'd see that it was coming up on the television. It has a lot of charm to it and was really done quite tastefully for the time.
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03-22-2007, 07:28 PM | #4 |
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The woodelves are ugly as all get-out (totally un-Tolkienesque) but we like everything else about it I need to find myself a copy.
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03-29-2007, 06:35 PM | #5 |
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I love -everything- about that movie. I grew up with it as one of my favorite movies ever, and even now I still love it. I went through a period of a few years when I thought it was too silly, didn't seem like 'Tolkien', and hated several parts of it, but now I just love it again.
I don't view it as being a perfect recreation of Tolkien's work, but I think that based on 'capturing the magic' of the Hobbit, it's kickass . |
04-09-2007, 05:15 PM | #6 |
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Like Tessar, I grew up with it, and I love it. However, I'm pretty sure that the only reason I love it is that I grew up with it.
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06-17-2007, 11:27 PM | #7 |
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The battle of the five armies was reduced to a hand full of black dots jumping around on the horizon! Two thumbs down!
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07-18-2007, 04:12 PM | #8 |
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Hm. Let me resum-up my opinion:
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09-02-2007, 08:37 PM | #9 |
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I remember hurriedly reading the old paperback of The Hobbit prior to the Thanksgiving-time release of the original Hobbit animated film. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even with Orson Bean's shrill little voice. john Huston as Gandalf, now that was something, and Otto Preminger as thranduil (correct?) was really neat.
I have to say that the version of Gollum in that film was by far more to my liking than Andy's version in Jackson's films, but then again, I liked the portrayals of most characters in Bakshi's LotR better, anyways. Besides, the score for Bakshi's film was far superior to the Jackson film's. We played the overture in high school orchestra, very stirring piece. I even had an old album of the soundtrack of The Hobbit, had it completely memorized and listened to it for many, many years. For a Rankin-Bass production, I thought their version of the Hobbit quite good.
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09-28-2007, 07:44 PM | #10 |
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I fondly remember the movie poster in my grammar school library: Bilbo puffing his pipe outside the doorway of Bag End.
The movie holds a dear place since it came about around the time I was discovering The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. |
10-11-2007, 07:11 PM | #11 |
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When I was in fifth grade we watched it, and it is a lot better than the animated version of LOTR.
I agree, the drawings were a little weird (especially the elf king), but it did follow the original storyline well. Seeing it now makes it feel outdated, but it will always be a classic in my eyes. Although the battle of five armies was a little messed up, especially when the elves showed up, because they look nothing like how I pictured them. Last edited by Black Numenorean : 10-11-2007 at 07:13 PM. |
11-18-2007, 10:52 PM | #12 |
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I don't like the animated movie. sorry, but i think that the real one is so much better! It shows me what the characters really look like. I used to always watch cartoons and got chrushes on animated guys, but when they did the real movie, it got me confused on which is which!
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Like bropous, I was reading the book for the first time when the film came out. I enjoyed it thoroughly but I wished had finished it before I saw the movie. BTW, if you think the battle and Bilbo's fight with the spiders was animated a little childishly, that was because at the time there was a great hue and cry against violence on television.
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02-29-2008, 10:01 AM | #14 |
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I really like how Elrond looks in the movie. And the songs are really funny and cozy. I think the Battle of 5 armies part was brought down to dots for the same reason as every other form of violence was covered up in the movie; making it watchable for kids. And yes, the wood-elve interpretation could have been better. Though the Goblins did hit the spot^^
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03-25-2008, 08:38 AM | #15 |
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Wonderful film for kids. For adults, it's ok. I still like it at my age. If I had to pick one Tolkien movie to watch, Rankin & Bass' The Hobbit would be it.
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04-17-2008, 03:14 AM | #16 |
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I hated it. I saw it at a friend's house when I was nine and as a result refused to even consider reading anything by Tolkien until I was twelve and realized that I had read every other decently written fantasy book in our middle school's library but couldn't talk about any of them because everybody else interested in that genre had grown up on LotR.
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04-17-2008, 11:39 AM | #18 |
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Star is probably referring to the animated LotR, a film with animation which, while as tramuatically bad, is still hideous and laughably inaccurate.
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04-17-2008, 11:45 AM | #19 |
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"Where there's a whip, there's a way!" I had that song stuck in my head for weeks when I was a kid.
Yeah, the LotR animated movie is pretty bad. But in contrast, the animated Hobbit is actually pretty good.
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04-17-2008, 11:59 AM | #20 |
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I would switch that. LotR was slightly more bearable. It's pantsless men vs. turquoise elf imposters.
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