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BlackFox
Half-elven
Mar 25 2014, 10:17pm
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Have you seen Bakshi's LOTR and/or TH by Rankin/Bass?
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I'm curious to know.
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Meneldor
Valinor
Mar 25 2014, 10:26pm
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and that was enough for me.
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CathrineB
Rohan
Mar 26 2014, 12:23am
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And never again
All due respect - they creep me out. Man what did they dream in the 70s to make such horrfying stuff?  I personally just can't watch them. I think they're awful in every way.
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Beorn's Bees
Lorien
Mar 26 2014, 1:56am
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They are not 'great' films, but they are certainly entertaining. I like them both in their own ways.
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sador
Half-elven
Mar 26 2014, 5:18am
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So it couldn't have been that bad.
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demnation
Rohan
Mar 26 2014, 11:17am
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Yes, and they are both terrible in their own special way
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(I'm assuming you are also asking what we think of the films!) TH is cringe worthy and I have a rather special dislike of it. Bakshi's LOTR has a few redeeming qualities: the animation is (largely) great and it's wonderfully dark and moody. On the other hand, most of the characters are turned into dumb caricatures, especially Sam.
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Annael
Immortal
Mar 26 2014, 3:41pm
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I was in the theater for the first showing of Bakshi's LOTR. It wasn't good, but it was all we had, back then, and I was so disappointed he never finished it (because the Rankin/Bass version was SO, so much worse!).
Never dared to dream we'd ever get a live-action film, much less three, of my beloved story.
Which is why I never joined the ranks of those bewailing how PJ had "ruined" the book, even if I didn't like everything he did. AT LEAST HE DID IT.
Now I have hope that in another 20 years, I'll get to participate in the interactive holographic version 
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Mar 26 2014, 6:02pm
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I like the beginning of Bakshi and much of R/B
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R/B got some things right that PJ got wrong, IMO. For example, the rescue of Frodo by Sam in Cirith Ungol. I always cry during the cartoon, but PJ's version didn't affect me that way (except for the wonderful line "and that's for my old gaffer!"). I also cry at the end of R/B, and I don't at the end of PJ's, though I know many people do. On the other hand, the orcs and elves in R/B are pretty silly, and they destroyed Aragorn's character in the opposite direction of what PJ did. (In R/B he's arrogant to the point of being foolish, and in PJ's version he's so unsure of himself as to be foolish.)
I may never forgive Bakshi for releasing his LotR without telling people it was only the first half. I went the day it came out, and was bitterly disappointed. I did like the opening, but the battle scenes were too bizarre.
(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Mar 26 2014, 6:03pm)
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Mar 26 2014, 8:30pm
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Also, 'Return of the King' (Rankin/Bass)
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You forgot one. Although, I don't own a copy of the RotK animated film.
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Mar 26 2014, 8:32pm)
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Mar 26 2014, 8:59pm
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I always forget something. ALWAYS.
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Meneldor
Valinor
Mar 26 2014, 9:39pm
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You forgot one. Although, I don't own a copy of the RotK animated film. That's the one with the song I keep hearing about, Where There's a Whip There's a Way, right?
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Mar 26 2014, 9:47pm
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That's the one with the song I keep hearing about, Where There's a Whip There's a Way, right?
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malickfan
Gondor
Mar 28 2014, 6:15pm
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I own both on DVD, whilst the visuals are rather bizzare, with some frankly odd scripting and confusing editing (Boromir the Viking, Aruman/Saruman...) I actually really enjoy them-they don't always make alot of sense, but I find both to be pretty enjoyable, and personally Rakin Bass reflected The Hobbit I envisioned better in 75 minutes, than PJ did in 6 hours. At least there wasn't any Azog...
At the very least It's always interesting to get other viewpoints on Middle Earth.
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Elskidor
Rohan
Mar 28 2014, 6:33pm
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Own all three dvd and vhs. The hobbit is decent, while TRoK is less decent, and LoTR is horrible. The music in TH and ROTK is worth it by itself, regardless of animation and voice actors.
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Elwen
Lorien
Mar 28 2014, 6:53pm
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And also Return of the King...I actually really like them, and would argue
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that some treatments are much better than PJ's interpretations. I think parts Eowyn vs the Witch King are much more satisfying in the cartoon, for example.
I liked TH and RotK better than Bakshi, though.
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Patty
Immortal
Mar 28 2014, 7:32pm
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'Nuff said.
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dik-dik
Lorien
Mar 28 2014, 8:39pm
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I'd love to see the Rankin-Bass TH, but they stopped selling the DVD here years ago, back when LotR was in cinemas. I doubt I'd get the version I need abroad, and I'll save watching the film online (not a fan) for when TABA has come and gone and still noone sells the animated TH here.
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arithmancer
Grey Havens
Mar 30 2014, 1:21am
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Also the animated Return of the King they had on US TV when I was a child.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 30 2014, 1:24pm
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I've always loved his M-e films
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Because for so long he was the only one out there feeding my fan-needs :)
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sauget.diblosio
Tol Eressea
Apr 28 2014, 12:31pm
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I saw Bakshi's LotR in highschool
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at an all-night video party with my friends (back when video stores had both VHS and Beta copies).
I've still never seen all of the Rankin/Bass Hobbit (just bits of it on YouTube), although i did receive the story album somewhere around my 7th birthday. Don't remember much about it though.
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