Until Peter Jackson's version, all films of Tolkien's work were animated - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (Hah! They only went to the end of the second book and didn't tell anyone that -people found out in the theater that it wasn't the complete story and then Bashki ran out of funds to do the rest), and the Return of the King (the one with the songs - some are quite catchy, actually. Where There's a Whip, There's a Way still gets stuck in my head sometimes).
The Hobbit was okay - it's a simpler story, easier to cover in a film in any case. Return of the King didn't suck, though it was... overly. In pretty much every way.
The Bashki LotR, though was... it's pure evil. Sam looks like a potato. Saruman sounds, as one reviewer put it, like a gecko with a sore throat (and he's supposed to have this amazingly powerful voice). Boromir has no pants. The elves are... there aren't words. There really aren't.
But yeah, I love the films, but mostly for the characters and the relationships. I mean, Evil Ring - whatever. Big Glowy Eye - sure, why not? Black riders of doom who can't tell people from pillows - well, they've been dead for a while. Maybe they've forgotten that people breathe and move, even in their sleep. I'm pretty much in it for the hobbits.
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Until Peter Jackson's version, all films of Tolkien's work were animated - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (Hah! They only went to the end of the second book and didn't tell anyone that -people found out in the theater that it wasn't the complete story and then Bashki ran out of funds to do the rest), and the Return of the King (the one with the songs - some are quite catchy, actually. Where There's a Whip, There's a Way still gets stuck in my head sometimes).
The Hobbit was okay - it's a simpler story, easier to cover in a film in any case. Return of the King didn't suck, though it was... overly. In pretty much every way.
The Bashki LotR, though was... it's pure evil. Sam looks like a potato. Saruman sounds, as one reviewer put it, like a gecko with a sore throat (and he's supposed to have this amazingly powerful voice). Boromir has no pants. The elves are... there aren't words. There really aren't.
But yeah, I love the films, but mostly for the characters and the relationships. I mean, Evil Ring - whatever. Big Glowy Eye - sure, why not? Black riders of doom who can't tell people from pillows - well, they've been dead for a while. Maybe they've forgotten that people breathe and move, even in their sleep. I'm pretty much in it for the hobbits.