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Over the weekend we went to see a film called "Dungeons and Dragons." It was dire beyond words. I was looking forward to the film version of The Lord of the Rings, but if that's the best Hollywood can do with dwarves and elves (whatever was the lead elf wearing?) I think I'll give it a miss. Fortunately, there were no hobbits on screen though there were a few references to halflings in the script. Goodness knows how Jeremy Irons got caught up in it, in fact until I saw the cast I refused to believe it was him. Tom Baker managed to rise above some pretty awful lines but he was only on screen for about 5 minutes.
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I saw the trailer to the first movie in the LotR trilogy and it looked very good. The scenery was very nice and it looked authentic (if you can call fictional settings authentic). The elves looked pretty much like elves too. Frodo is played by Elijah Wood (who is not in real life a short, hobbit-like person). I didn't even realize it was him on the poster. He played Huck Finn in one of the recent movies and he's been in other movies that I can't think of. Overall I'd say that it will be a good movie, but I'm definitely going to have to re-read them before I see it. I just bought them on barnesandnoble.com.
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Does anyone remember the animated version of Lord of the Rings that came out some years ago? It was quite advanced for its time and was aimed at a much older audience. It is hard to describe but some scenes seemed to have animation going on over real objects and sujects. I thought it was very good. I hope the movie is up to par.
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the animated version of Lord of the Rings
I remember it. Everybody was animated except the humans who were some sort of computer altered live action thang. The result, to me, seemed to make the humans so much less real than the other characters that I couldn't appreciate the movie.
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The animated version of TLOTR was something of a disappointment for me, especially since it stops more or less abruptly in the middle of the tale. Apparently they were planning on finishing it up but they never got funding for the continuation of the project. I think the humans were filmed with live actors and then the film was painted over for "animation." (Or "deanimation" maybe.)
There was also an animated version of "The Hobbit" but it was rather childish and full of irritating songs, if memory serves.
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Yes, I remember the animated version. As I recall, it got dreadful write-ups, but I didn't think it was that bad, just rather rushed trying to fit everything in but having to miss a lot out.
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I hated the animated version of LOTR; I was soooo disappointed in it. It struck me (and, I'll agree that I have not seen the movie since its initial release, and maybe my memory fails...) that the movie focused on the fighting and left out the interesting stuff. And, of course, it stopped suddenly in the middle of the story.
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it stopped suddenly in the middle of the story
You have no one to blame but yourself, Sparteye. If you had liked it they would have finished it for you.
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