Comments on: Remastered Animated Lord of the Rings to be Re-Released

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:39:46 +0000

You have no idea what you’re talking about.
There is no “films” to speak of here, this isn’t related to the Hobbit animated film at all.

This was actually pretty damn good, the only problem being, as mentioned, it only goes just past Helm’s Deep.

By: Anti-Septic

Anti-Septic — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:44:55 +0000

As a kid teenager this was my first introduction into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien and I am thankful for that.

I don’t own a Blu-Ray player yet, so I havent even purchased any DVDs in a year or more waiting for the eventual moment I do switch over to Blu-Ray.

I’ll probably just do a home rental on this as usual.

By: vargas

vargas — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:44:47 +0000

I never cared for Bakshi’s version but if this remastering makes others happy, that’s cool.

By: arnold

arnold — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:48:00 +0000

This was my introduction to Tolkien and reading and loving LOTR and fantasy books, so it holds a special place in my heart. I remember watching it 3x in the theaters in one day.

It is sad that the 2nd movie was never completed though I heard it went into production. I think someone told me he saw a clip of Aragorn leading the army of the dead – and this was a few years after this film showed and he was someone that never read the books.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:09:49 +0000

In reply to matty. And also it'll teach me to read all the replies here first in future! :)

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:08:23 +0000

In reply to matty. It's a shame because I liked this version, I prefer Peter Jackson's 3 films now but I did like this one at the time. Would have been nice to see it complete.

By: matty

matty — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:40:40 +0000

In reply to Pedro. You're correct Pedro; it doesn't cover the whole story. As I stated above, Bakshi was supposed to split the story over two parts, but the studio pulled the pin on the second installment.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:08:41 +0000

It would be worth the effort of buying it if they’d actually finished telling the entire story, if I recall this film ends just after the battle of Helsm Deep.

It’s been a while so I might be wrong, but being an incomplete telling of LoTR it’s not worth watching.

By: matty

matty — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:10:25 +0000

I feel sorry for Bashki as he got screwed over pretty badly. The project was supposed to be 2 films, but despite the 1st being a commercial success, the studio nixed the 2nd part. His movie does lack in places (ie: too much poor quality rotoscoped animation), but it still manages to capture the story quite well IMO.

A re-mastered edition will be sweet, and happily sit beside my LOTR extended editions =D

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:49:09 +0000

These films are bloody horrible. Thank God Jackson came around.

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:48:33 +0000

I haven’t seen it before, but that’s cool. Maybe I’ll put that on my list

By: Phoenix Dark

Phoenix Dark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:29:55 +0000

I remeber this well as a child, and also rented it in 2001 after watching Peter Jackson’s “Fellowship of the Rings” (probably the last VHS I ever watched)

It is pretty cool, so I recomend checking it out. Very creative. Only downside it that the story takes you from Fellowship through Two Towers (sort of) however, “Return” was left out for a sperate release in the style of the original animated “Hobbit.”

If you are a Tolkien purest, this stayed closer to the book than Peter Jackson did. (if that is important to you)

Phoenix