Quote:
Originally posted by Legolas the Elven Archer:
I am expecting the movie to be way better than the Lord of the Rings movie that you can rent right now (that IS a terrible one. Complete waste of time, money and the LOTR books)
|
Aaaah, the old Ralph Bakshi animated film. Not really THAT bad... just very, very silly. Full of odd continuity errors and really rather important bits of the plot missing -
- Aragorn is named as the Heir of Elendil, but the film never mentions Elendil at all... in fact, we never see the bit where Anduril is reforged either.
- The Balrog looks like a Lion with carpet slippers and butterfly wings.
- Every horn-call (the Call of Buckland, Boromir's war-sound, the Orcish War-Horn) is the same two notes.
- Everyone has big 70's hair, most notably Saruman - who surely would snap his neck if he moved his head too fast with THAT amount of hair.
- There's the really odd bit of music during the battle for the Hornburg that seems to suggest, no matter how strange it seems, that the Orcs and the Humans are about to make friends.
Tancred
If you can't ascertain my opinion of Bakshi's swanso - er - masterpiece, then it really is true, as I have always said - Sarcasm in Print just doesn't work.
- Tom Bombadil is cut. Just as well, really.
- Guess what idiots blew their budget on the first half of the film and couldn't make the other half?
Tancred