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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: Bakshi version |
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Never watch!!!! DO NOT WATCH!!! I just bought it a few days ago and am watching it as I type! OH, THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's only just got to Bilbo's Birthday Party and I'm already hating it; definintly dreading when Legolas shows up! I know there going to make him look HORRIBLE IT'S HORRIBLE!!!!!!!! A WASTE OF $9.12!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Gandalf just took the ring from Frodo to examine it. UGH!!!! IT'S HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sam just showed up. HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOORRRRRRRRRRIBBBBBBBBLEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've given up. Watch extended version first one now. Legolas showed up and his hair was shorter than Aragorn's!!!! He kinda looked like a teenager. Seeing Orlando, Viggo, etc. is so nice after that movie!!!!!
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I wonder if Wal-Mart will take it back.....
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Is this the Lord of the Rings or the Return of the King? In the animated RoTK, at least you have really inspiring musical numbers like "Where there's a whip, there's a way".  |
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Leila
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| Viv wrote: | | In the animated RoTK, at least you have really inspiring musical numbers like "Where there's a whip, there's a way". |
 
That's one movie I certainly never wish to see!!! I think I'm going to try to return the one I have. I would rather watch Orlando/Legolas be torturred to death than that movie. And that's saying something......possibly.
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Haleth
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject: Bakshi version |
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Horrible doesn't really do it justice. Appalling, ghastly, unspeakable and nightmarish come a little closer.
I can't ever remember what Legolas or any of the others looked like in that movie. Maybe it's just been blocked out by the trauma of the entire experience.
To each there own, but my eyebrows always get lost in my bangs whenever people go on about how they prefer Bakshi's version to Jackson's.
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Leila
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: Bakshi version |
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| Haleth wrote: | Horrible doesn't really do it justice. Appalling, ghastly, unspeakable and nightmarish come a little closer.
I can't ever remember what Legolas or any of the others looked like in that movie. Maybe it's just been blocked out by the trauma of the entire experience.
To each there own, but my eyebrows always get lost in my bangs whenever people go on about how they prefer Bakshi's version to Jackson's. |
I completely agree with you. Horrible will never do it justice. It's torture, living Hell, watching it has to be worse than being chased by a Balrog, etc., etc.
I didn't see Gimli, Elrond, Galadriel, Celeborn, Haldir, and probably a lot more I just haven't thought of yet. Did see the four Hobbits, Aragorn, Gandalf, and Legolas. 
All I want to know is how anyone could like it, let alone think its better than Peter Jackson's version. I'm watching it just to get over seeing Bakshi's!!!!!
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Ah, Bakshi. There's an incensed rant from me on these forums somewhere...
It's quite good to watch as long as you're prepared to sit there and giggle. IF we fancy being objective:
It runs a little like Tolkien's greatest hits- you need to know the books or it won't make any sense.
The Elvish! So bad it burns.
Now, I'll be fair- the Nazgul still give me chills. It's the only effective part, although I do wonder why they walk like someones given them a firm kick in the groin.
The Balrog has fluffy slippers on. Really!
Watch the entire film (alas that I haven't seen the ROTK version...) and then you'll feel a much deeper love for both the books and the movie. I think I saw the Bakshi version when I was about six, though, and it seemed very cool back then. Ten years later, less fun. 
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I remember liking the animated Hobbit, but the other animated versions just look skeery.
Speaking of odd interpretations of character, I have a Middle Earth dictionary with a bizarre illustration of the Fellowship on the front. Aragorn is dressed like a pirate, and Legolas.....dear God, Legolas is wearing a short fur-trimmed parka which looks like something you would buy at Old Navy. In the Women's section.
Good dictionary, though.
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| What I want to know is why Glorfindel is cut from the Bakshi and the Jackson adaptations? Talk about giving a guy a complex... |
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KhazarKhum
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I remeber sitting in the theater with a horsetrainer friend. When the Nazgul dismounted, she said:
"He's a guy! You'd walk like that, too, if you went riding bareback!"
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| Panneth wrote: | | What I want to know is why Glorfindel is cut from the Bakshi and the Jackson adaptations? Talk about giving a guy a complex... |
He's too pretty: Animators can't fathom it; human actors can't wear enough hair extensions or make-up. |
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Come on your guys. For us old ones this was all we had for a very long while. It was this or make do with your own imagination. I agree watching it now is pretty horrible - why has no one got any trousers/pants on. But I can still remember being really disappointed when it ended.
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Hanasian
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It wasn't ALL bad. Bakshi portrayed the Orcs really well. The 'Robin Hood' Strider, 'Faux-Viking' Boromir, and 'Disney Princess' Galadriel was a bit off, and Sam was a goofy looking thing. But then, it was the late 70's and this with the publication of the Silmarillion was the only new Tolkien Middle Earth events to come along.
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