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My husband actually proposed to me with The One Ring. He had been planning to take me ring shopping, but when I became pregnant decided that money was better spent on impending baby needs. We both worked at a bookstore at the time, and as the LOTR films were just hitting theaters, we were awash with bookmarks that had The One Ring charms attached. He bought one, and that ring is what he proposed to me with. He passed away unexpectedly in 2018, and that One Ring is just as important to me as my actual wedding ring.
Having never seen this film, I'm really surprised with how many shots were recreated beautifully in the Jackson film, as well as taking care of a few of the plot inconsistencies you mention!
Funnily enough, this is the movue that got Peter Jackson interested in LoTR. He read the books because the story didn't end with the movie. (That is from one source. However I don't remeber it. So I can't day how reliable it is.)
If ur a fan of LOTR u should give it a watch it's surprisingly well done for being made back then. Tbh theres two films. The first one features the fellowship and into the two towers then the studio got switched and the return of the king wasnt as high quality but continued the story
I watched this as a child. I remember saying to my mother after the end "But what about Merry and Pippin?" My mother (who had read the books) said "Well, they're with Treebeard." as if that was fine. I couldn't accept that. We still hadn't established that he wasn't going to EAT them or anything.
You know that's a good question we know what Ents drink, but what do they eat? I mean I have never seen plants that eat meat aside from a Venus Fly trap and if Ents are instead vegan is that Cannabalism?
TBH the old LOTR was just as dumb as the new show. Just fly an eagle to Mordor and distract the armies with an invasion 4head. The story makes no sense lmao. If LOTR had black people, it would be ridiculed just as much as the new show.
@@Kalaki9996 the Eagles are magical beeings and could be sensed by Sauron too easily. He would target them with his flying troops easily. In only worked in the 3rd movie because he was distracted.
I'd like to be in the meeting where they said "how shall we draw Aragorn, heir of Isildur, the great king?" "I know, how about a cave man in a skirt?" "Perfect!"
To be fair, other than the hilariously short tunic, it sorta makes sense that Strider/Aragorn would look like a rough caveman, living in the wilderness for years.
With all the flaws it may have, this movie obviously is a great influence to Peter Jackson. Even considering how the books describes things, many scenes have the same angles and some artistic choices, that only by reading the book, it would be extremely unlikely to both movies have so many scenes as close as they are.
Indeed, the scene where the Hobbits hide from the wraits was simply copied and pasted onto PJ's first LotR movie... More of an hommage then plagiarism. There are many things I like better in the animated, like the wizards' duel.
You are neglecting the possibility of similar artwork used as reference by both - of which there was already a gamut of by the time Bakshi's film went into production.
@@martinportelance138 The scene during which the Nazgül stab the hobbit's beds in Prancing Pony is also an hommage from Peter Jackson to Bakshi's film.
I got to see this as a bright-eyed 7 year old in theaters, the orc armies scared the mess out of me, but the ring wraith murder of the hobbits in the inn wasn’t such a big deal, we grew up with Buggs Bunny and the Road Runner on Saturday mornings.
I remember growing up my dad was a huge lord of the rings man, and since the hobbit series hasn’t come out yet, everytime we started a new run of the LOTR movies we’d always start with this
When you consider that it was made with a budget of 1 million$ and was constantly being harassed by producers and studio to complete the film. Also grabbing Leonard Rosenman for the OST, after he had two back to back Oscars (Barry Lyndon, Bound for Glory), is pretty impressive.
Another thing I always found intresting about this adaptation is that he is already carrying the broken sword. That whole part where the busted up sword was just sitting in Rivendell is not how it was in the books. Arigorn in fact kept the Narsil in his sight and grasp at all times. When they went into Theodens hall in the book it was Narsil he had to hand over and he was none to happy to do so.
@@Drums_of_Liberation I don't honestly remember when but I do know Arigorn in the book had it when they showed up at Eadoras and really was very pissed about having to surrender it.
@@joshualittle877drums is correct, Narsil was reforged into Andruil, Flame of the West. Since the reforged blade was now even more powerful than before, you are quite right that Aragorn threw a mini hissy fit, and then got Hama the Door Warden so scared that he agreed that no one would touch the thing on pain of death.
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Well still it's interesting to see that Peter Jackson took a lot of ideas from this film. Many scenes are almost equal.
"Bringing a sword to a Wizard fight" "Santa Claus?!" "Designated Strider" I thoroughly enjoyed this. Also, I never saw this animated version, so that was fun. 👍
I must have seen this dozens of times before PJ's trilogy started coming out. Including while it was still coming out as the DVD was released just as PJ's Fellowship was in the cinema in 2001.
I once played a DOS based adventure game (late 80s) that eventually came to a point where it asks questions. One was what was Bilbo last name. Internet wasn't around yet and I hadn't read the books. I knew I had seen this film but could not remember the answer. To this day it bugs me that I never got past that point in the game and everyone knows the answer now. Screw you Baggins!
I'm 46 and this is one of those movies that reminds me of my childhood during the Christmas holidays. I am also old enough to know that a factual humorous review doesn't mean I have to get bent out of shape about it. Cheers to you sir.
I remember this movie from childhood. I had no idea what rotoscoping was back then. The animation styles are all over the place, but plenty of the orcs and enemies genuinely look pretty scary. The dark pallet and creepy realistic movement. And then the movie cuts to hilarious or ugly rotoscoping… Oh well. Makes me appreciate Peter Jackson and his version more. 😏
Rotoscoping has multiple meanings in terms of film FX - it can mean drawing over live action footage to create animation frames, or it can mean creating VFX image masks frame by frame by tracking objects visually from the live action footage.
@@mnomadvfx The main characters are rotoscoped a lot of the time. When Bakshi started to run out of money, he started to simply film actors and apply a grading to the film to turn it more or less into outlines and color that. When they were *really* running out of money, they just recorded actors and used the footage as-is.
It looks a little better in the '83 Bakshi and Frank Frazetta animated film "Fire and Ice". And its got a damsel in distress in flimsy Frazetta wear. But in the behind the scenes extras you see the actress wore her skimpy princess bikini over spandex bike shorts and a gymnast top.
@@skylx0812 Fire and Ice poster was on me and my brother's bedroom wall for 20 yrs I still absolutely love that movie and Princess Tigra crawling through the log became pretty fuzzy on the VHS tape we had! No idea why that would happen?!? Every so often I tell some younger people to watch it and some do. They usually come back around to tell me they couldn't believe a cartoon movie like that could exist and if it had any sequels or what was it inspired from. I usually tell them to just look up Ralph Bakshi. I mean, Wizards is pretty weird but it's a cool concept. Fire and Ice is my favorite of all time tho. Now, to petition or crowdfund a live-action version?!?!?!
Please do the great animated "The Hobbit" and "The Last Unicorn"! I both loved them and was disturbed by them in my youth (and again in my adulthood multiple times).
@@iriswaldenburger2315 Yeah, this prompted me to watch "The Last Unicorn" again a couple nights ago. Still great! And the songs performed by America? Really brought me back to my youth! An amazing voice cast too!
i remember seeing this movie in the theatre and absolutely loving it...i had read the hobbit and the lord of the rings before seeing this, and was so excited when this film was announced...i knew about the rotoscoping, as well as the 'cut off' ending...it was always intended to be a two-parter, so that didn't bother me (until they never came out with part two)....but since this was before peter jackson, before harry potter, before game of thrones, this was thrilling and exciting and visually amazing to see in a theatre...
Not just you. I don't even watch these movies any more ... too much cheese and don't get me started on that stupid love-triangle they felt they had to shove in. Plus Elijah Wood was pretty terrible as Frodo. I'd take Ian Holm from the BBC radio-play any day of the week over PJ's Frodo.
I've seen this movie sooo much, I won't lie, Love this movie just so many memories watching it with Family espically my Grandpa and Dad. This and the animation of the The Hobbit were just insane to me in early 90's as a kid. Still is
*Fun Fact:* There is an animated adaptation of the Hobbit made by Gene Dietch (aka the creator of the worst Tom and Jerry shorts and the Popeye TV show). Though, the art style looks like it came straight out of a children's picture book, hence lighthearted and brighter tone, and was barely even animated.
I like the added sin for Gandalf going in full fingers to retrieve the Ring. I give the trilogy that much, I like how Gandalf went after the ring with tongs, never even wanting to touch it over it's corruptive influence (and the musical score any time it's the focus of someone's growing obsession), plus the fire, and told Frodo, "Hold out your hand, don't worry, it's quite cool" (knowing no mortal flames could even raise the temperature of the metal if it was the one ring, and that it would burn Frodo if it wasn't the ring of power, so bullet dodged, lol)
Given how much energy humans on Earth work with on a regular basis, I've wondered since I was a child how our powers would compare to those of Sauron or his ring. I wonder if lasers exist in the universe of LOTR? We can dump enormous, fantastical amounts of energy and power into highly focused beams when we have a reason to do so. Light doesn't seem to work the same ways as our light, so it's not a given. The light of their universe seems to have different properties than ours, so maybe it's not possible to create a coherent beam. Does radioactivity exist? If they had the skill, could they have refined a pile or uranium, lumped it together until there was enough of it to go supercritical, and then dumped a solar-output worth of power into the ring in an infinitesimally short instant? The ring couldn't be unmade with mortal fire because any conceivable fire that they could produce was but a speck compared to the power contained in Sauron's spirit, much of which had been dumped into the ring. I wonder how Sauron's spirit's energy levels would compare to a 2 or 3 hundred megaton explosion? He's not mortal... but his existence and power are finite. He does not contain the power necessary to reshape the world like his far more powerful former Valar bosses did. He's a minor being compared to them.
Oddly enough Filmation, used a lot of rotoscoping on Tarzan and Flash Gordon and it looked really great. Admittedly they reused a lot of footage, but it was well done for a budget. I still don't get why Strider had to wear like a mini-skirt. That just looked weird.
I remember seeing this as a very young child, and what with being used to cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, this was visually fascinating, but all the names and characters, and then more names and more characters? Of course, when the trilogy hit, I had matured into a fully-fledged nerd, ready to dive into a made up language, script and all the mythology you could throw at me. And clearly, Peter Jackson saw this, too, given that a number of scenes are very likely. Of course, his decision to have Gandalf carefully avoid touching the ring was one of the things that made the ring so beautifully, spell-bindingly ominous right from the start. I don't think I'll ever forget how the ring dropped to the floor without a bit of bounce or spinning around, like it weight pounds instead of grams.
3:14 I mean, Smeagol was a hobbit from the Vales of Anduin, as he was a Stoor, one of the early types of hobbits. He wouldn’t have known much of the world west of the Misty Mountains.
9:08 He said “like them”, also it would just be a wraith, but the rings bestow power themselves. Technically the Shades of the Oathbreakers are classified as Wraiths, albeit as an overarching term. Had Frodo died from the blade, he’d become a wraith under the servitude of the Ring Wraiths, an enthralled soul.
@@calebwinfield1403 That they don't explain it is a sin, though. Unless you read the books, their plan to turn him into a servant (as the weapon itself would transfer the curse and was thought to be incurable) would lead them to the ring guaranteed, in a few days. - ALL of that isn't obvious. You need a few seconds of exposition to explain their plan.
That’s not right. Sauron learned ring craft from the elves, in the book it says he learned all their secrets and then betrayed them by making the one ring but Calibrimbor was aware of him and his plan when he put on the ring sparking the war of the last alliance
7:27 As per the wiki “Alternately described as a long knife and a blade, it was used by the Nazgûl to poison enemies. As explained by Elrond, the purpose of the knife was to break off in the wound, leaving a shard in the victim's body. The remaining blade would soon turn to dust, and the shard works its way through the body to the heart. If the shard of the blade stays in the victim for too long, the victim becomes a wraith.”
So this happened at least once or twice. So where are the turned wraiths? Only the nine are shown in the books. Even if the blades are hard to make still it must have happened a couple times.
I don't care what people say. Bakshi created and artistic, alternative masterpiece. He dared where others failed, he gave us the first presentation of the middle earth. Respecting the true Tolkien spirit. And despite there are "sins" in this movie, Peter Jackson himself admitted that it was only thanks to Bkashi work that he found the inspiration to start his Trilogy
Ah yes... the movie, that got me into fantasy. My mother fed me gummy bears, because I was that emotionally invested. And got me the trilogy for my 12? 13? birthday.
I just can't help but feel that someone is about to throw some garbage at Aragorn's feet and he's gonna turn to the camera with a tear running down his cheek.
You missed sin when they’re walking through the cave after meeting Legolas: Legolas says to Aragorn “My Lord Elrond” which means the writers changed Legolas’s origin because he’s supposed to be a wood elf of the woodland realm but in this movie they made him a high elf.
Legolas and Thranduil were Sindar elves who ruled over the Sylvan, aka wood elves in Mirkwood, aka Greenwood the Great. They were cousins of the Lothlorien elves.
Legolas only mentioned that Elrond sent riders out looking for Aragorn, not specifying that Legolas was sent out by him. If we were sinning word for word, story for story accuracy here then the Sin Boys would be here all day.
Watching videos on youtube about how this movie was made makes many of the choices we find weird as an audience make a bunch of sometimes sad sense. It's a very interesting tale about making an ambitious movie before the tech explosion we saw in the 80s and onward.
Even Peter Jacksons version was ambitious as hell for the early 2000s, gollum is the first motion capture character ever created and still holds up pretty well.
0:55 Sauron (or you may call him Mairon) was the Maia (angel like creatures ) of the Vala Aule, and was the most talented blacksmith between the other fire Maias. Even after he lost his fair form in the Second Age, he still had his talent and powers, so it was kind of easy to do it. Especially after (if I remember right, correct me if I'm wrong) as Annatar he influenced the elves to create the Rings with the intention to be able to control them.
The elf Celebrimbor actually created the three elven rings (using Sauron's teachings, but without Sauron's knowledge), which is why they are immune to Sauron's influence. Sauron had the other rings for dwarves and humans crafted, with the built-in flaw that they must submit to the power of the One Ring. PJ's movies gloss over this for simplicity.
@@Aeronor2001 Yes. I gave the cliff notes version as technically the original three rings were an entirely separate creation and not part of the problem, as it were. But there was a lot that had to be glossed over, even in the director's cut to even fit it into a movie format. Otherwise it would have been two movies per book... (I'd not have minded, but...)
Why do you remind me of the random commenters you see leaving spam passages of Bible verses and reminding people "Jesus is coming, give yourself to him and you shall be saved"? 😂 Just so you know I mean absolutely no offence by that. The way you presented the lore there just made me think that's what you were doing for a moment. Consider me converted sir (and thanks for the information).
I love how the Rohirm stand on the outside of the top of the wall during Helm's deep. Also Glamdring exploded against the Balrog's sword in Moria. Maybe it regenerates? Which also means Gandalf fought the Balrog sans sword.
I remember asking my dad to show us this one just after the Fellowship came out. He said, "...fine. but it's the Precious Moments version of everything in technicolor. "
After reading the books several times, I rented this video thinking it would be awesome. I seriously thought it was missing a tape or it was damaged because it was missing so much. Great review!
One of the few movies cinemasins has done that's older then me (I'm 38)! I love this retro kick that the channel has been on lately. They've been hitting all the 90s classics I grew up with. Fingers crossed for so I married and ax murderer or tremors. And I love to see a Robert Redford respective like the oft mentioned sneakers (except it's a perfect film with the only sin being its title) or perhaps some of his older work like all the president's men/ 3 days of the condor/butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
@@biosaari It's possible, but it might not be well known enough. I think that's also the first movie with speech so not a silent movie. They could always go with a Charlie Chaplin movie, but I'd certainly want some sins removed too. Metropolis could also work well, also needs some sins removed.
You know what? That Orcs and stuff line should have been elaborated upon, as I'm sure Tolkien made like a book version of an extended cut of the Silmarillian or something else with lots of words in it, that explains in detail about how Sting would also glow when close to magnets. The whole thing was just fluff, and played no part at all in the story, but the guys who made this movie added that line in knowing that only true Tolkien heads would understand the reference. Pretty sure I didn't just make that up.
I watched The Hobbit and LOTR (animated) on movie days at school in the early 1980s. The teachers didn't explain anything to introduce them. I loved The Hobbit, but the rotoscoping of LOTR was pure nightmare fuel. The quick edits made it impossible to follow the plot. Eventually, I read the books and was still confused, because of the multiple names for characters and places. Thank goodness Peter Jackson gave me a visual aid, so I could understand the story once I read them again.
I read The Lord of the Rings at 13 and had no issues understanding it. It's not like other books have even more names, like...War and Peace, or...The Bible.
@@rikk319 I have to be honest with you, I'm not sure what to do with this new insight, but I'm sure your parents are very proud of your reading comprehension. I'm not insecure about my initial struggles with Tolkien, it all worked out for me. I doubt I had enough life experience before I was 30 to really grasp the themes of it anyway. “You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.” If you're struggling with the Bible, I recommend the Bible Project RUclips channel or the tektonics website. As far as War and Peace, I'd just give it a hard pass. It's basically a soap opera staged during the French invasion of Russia, with some philosophical rants interspaced throughout the book. It's historically significant as a new style of literature, but won't really change your life.
I used to watch this adaptian of LOTR a lot when i was a kid, but now as an adult i can't say it was the most memorable adaptian of the iconic book series.
everyone in my life i said i nver watched this imma bout to be petty,,,,,saw it 2cnd grade only one white man at venice beach told me he saw it...that was 2012 the mandela is real people though sinbad played a jeanie,.,,,,that was shaq lmao thasracist
@@CorrectionUnknown Well I was just a kid, and it was a cartoon. Gotta remember that Loony Tunes, Hanna Barbarra and early Disney cartoons were the mainstay. And you had Saturday morning cartoons. You took your cartoons when you could find them and didn't question the quality. Wasn't played often though, the animated version of The Lion, With and the Wardrobe was a yearly showing for a long time. I will say it did stand out in my memory, can't say why though.
I honestly love the Cinemasins episodes over weird, awful movies. Like Troll 2, the Room, that kind of thing. I know it's all shit, but seeing it put in perspective is just hilarious
@@davidtaylor142 it kind of is though It's sort of in the same category as the old Ninja Turtles. Nostalgic and fun as a kid, but weird, and hard to watch now
It's still amazing that they were able to condense the first two books into 1 90 minute move and make it conherent as well. Like Jackson they wanted to make 3 movies but couldn't get the funding. Because of this, Jackson asked for money for 1 movie, but was ironically given the money from the company to make all three (as it made more sense in terms of the story).
@@Jutrzen… probably so he could just copy Bakshi’s _LOTR_ and Rankin-Bass’s _ROTK._ It was only when he had to stretch it into 3 films that the unnecessary padding started. Hint: Arwen?
Rotoscoping is a seriously ugly style. It's grisly. And usually there's much better options. Animation, action, even stop motion. There's a lot of better options. It's never been any good. I don't get why they keep ressurrecting the foul thing. In this case. Just use animation. Proper animation. None of that rotoscoping rubbish.
I’ve always loved this movie . We used to hire it from Linlithgow Video shop when we stayed with my Grandma . I eventually bought it in an ex rental sale . I absolutely love the soundtrack and will never not get goosebumps when Gandalf comes thundering over the hill with the renegade Riders of Rohan .
Comparing this intro with the Peter Jackson intro, I have to say, this one is quite good! I still like the PJ one better, but this one is pretty damn effective!
Sam looks like he’s halfway to becoming a gollum from the start. I grew up with the Hobbit cartoon where Gollum was a green monster and when I found out Gollum used to be a hobbit I didn’t understand how he’d transformed like that. But this version of Sam would have made it seem natural
I loved the animated LOTR movies for the music, when I reread the Hobbit or the trilogy and get to lyrics I will always sing them as they are in these movies
11:50 Because it was back during the second age that Celembrimbor and Narvi constructed that gate, back when dwarves had stronger relations with elves, namely the realm of Hollin, and after Khazad-dûm fell the art of opening the doors was lost.
Why does Boromir look like Gimli? Considering he comes from the most advanced human kingdom in Middle Earth. You think he could do better than animal skins and a viking helmet.
6:49 Arwen is in the Peter Jackson movies because she was the love interest for Aragorn and needed screentime. Which is why, where in the books it is Glorfindel who rescues the injured Frodo after he gets stabbed, she is the one who comes riding in. They probably just thought they'd rather use her than have to introduce Glorfindel as a character too given that he does essentially nothing more in contribution to taking down Sauron. ... Also, Liv Tyler. That's enough of a reason for some people. Looking at you, Cinema Sins.
Growing up as a big Tolkien fan, this (and the Rankin and Bass Hobbit and Return of the King) are all we had aside from reading the books. None of them are even close to perfect, but they were still pretty cool.
I remember my father renting this movie twice when I was a child. I fell assleep around the same time, both times, lol. It was a little after Frodo gets stabbed. I remember him fighting the ringwraith, I remember him wounded on a horse, and that's it. I never saw the full movie, and I don't regret it, to tell you the truth.
I’m going to assume they’re also doing the animated Return of the King and The Hobbit soon, right?! Next they should do The Black Cauldron! 2:11 Tree ROOT, there wouldn’t be branches underground. *Ding!
My dad and I used to watch these a ton on vhs when I was a kid. Really loved the hobbit the most, but lord of the rings and return of the king was still good.
Fun fact: When Aragorn tripped on his sword, he actually broke his toes. It was an accident but the animators liked it so much they kept that take in.
I understood that reference! 😊
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Well played sir.
Like the movie!😏
Oh my God. get the f**k outta here with that - you made me laugh so loud it woke up my wife.
17:46 You sinned Aragorn tripping over his own sword, but you missed Gandalf flourishing his cloak and getting it awkwardly wrapped around his head.
My husband actually proposed to me with The One Ring. He had been planning to take me ring shopping, but when I became pregnant decided that money was better spent on impending baby needs. We both worked at a bookstore at the time, and as the LOTR films were just hitting theaters, we were awash with bookmarks that had The One Ring charms attached. He bought one, and that ring is what he proposed to me with. He passed away unexpectedly in 2018, and that One Ring is just as important to me as my actual wedding ring.
That's an amazing story. I'm so sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss sounds like he was awesome
@@davidradloff-licht Thank you. Yes, he was awesome and I miss him every day.
@@valysheev He was great at improvising, and we had so many cool moments like that because both of us were geeks cut from the same cloth.
Amazing story, and so sorry for your loss.
I love how Gandalf kept throwing gang signs at Pippin while scolding him
Blood in blood out, Blud!
I've seen this film more than once (though, admittedly, not for decades), but I've never noticed Aragorn tripping over his sword. Brilliant.
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What's the time stamp for that? My brain must've tuned out that sin/comment.
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Having never seen this film, I'm really surprised with how many shots were recreated beautifully in the Jackson film, as well as taking care of a few of the plot inconsistencies you mention!
Funnily enough, this is the movue that got Peter Jackson interested in LoTR.
He read the books because the story didn't end with the movie.
(That is from one source. However I don't remeber it. So I can't day how reliable it is.)
*it's actually pretty good...i found the representation of one of the ringwraiths limping to be very fitting and terrifying at the same time*
@@scottmantooth8785 Yeah, that animation was great.
Thought the same. Peter's movies are so similar in scenes to these cartoons
If ur a fan of LOTR u should give it a watch it's surprisingly well done for being made back then. Tbh theres two films. The first one features the fellowship and into the two towers then the studio got switched and the return of the king wasnt as high quality but continued the story
I watched this as a child. I remember saying to my mother after the end "But what about Merry and Pippin?"
My mother (who had read the books) said "Well, they're with Treebeard." as if that was fine.
I couldn't accept that. We still hadn't established that he wasn't going to EAT them or anything.
Ents are Treegans though.
@@samusx2175 yes, but little kid Kevin Frushour didn't know that
You know that's a good question we know what Ents drink, but what do they eat? I mean I have never seen plants that eat meat aside from a Venus Fly trap and if Ents are instead vegan is that Cannabalism?
TBH the old LOTR was just as dumb as the new show. Just fly an eagle to Mordor and distract the armies with an invasion 4head. The story makes no sense lmao. If LOTR had black people, it would be ridiculed just as much as the new show.
@@Kalaki9996 the Eagles are magical beeings and could be sensed by Sauron too easily. He would target them with his flying troops easily.
In only worked in the 3rd movie because he was distracted.
''MY ARMOUR!!!)
''rip to poor gandalfs eardrums'' ahaha
I'd like to be in the meeting where they said "how shall we draw Aragorn, heir of Isildur, the great king?" "I know, how about a cave man in a skirt?" "Perfect!"
To be fair, other than the hilariously short tunic, it sorta makes sense that Strider/Aragorn would look like a rough caveman, living in the wilderness for years.
Well, like Ewan McGregor, Viggo Mortensen was no stranger to full fontal, so they could have brought back that skirt for the Jackson films.
@@ng.tr.s.p.1254 does it make sense for a rough caveman who's lived in the wilderness for years to be clean shaven though?
Aragorn and Boromir were having a no-pants party.
I think he looks more like a native American.
I just love how Gandalf half of the time looks like he's drugged out of his mind
YES 🤣
He was in fact drugged out of his mind 100% of the time
He regularly comments on the quality of the Hobbit’s weed…
@@paulwalker3758yea he smokes the Hobbits weed lol so does sauromon and radagast eats shrooms
With all the flaws it may have, this movie obviously is a great influence to Peter Jackson. Even considering how the books describes things, many scenes have the same angles and some artistic choices, that only by reading the book, it would be extremely unlikely to both movies have so many scenes as close as they are.
Indeed, the scene where the Hobbits hide from the wraits was simply copied and pasted onto PJ's first LotR movie... More of an hommage then plagiarism.
There are many things I like better in the animated, like the wizards' duel.
"Proudfeet!" I took notice in the theater 20 years ago now
Jackson copies a lot of it frame by frame. Furthermore, its Black Riders and Orcs are scarier than Jackson's. The sword fights are better too.
You are neglecting the possibility of similar artwork used as reference by both - of which there was already a gamut of by the time Bakshi's film went into production.
@@martinportelance138 The scene during which the Nazgül stab the hobbit's beds in Prancing Pony is also an hommage from Peter Jackson to Bakshi's film.
I got to see this as a bright-eyed 7 year old in theaters, the orc armies scared the mess out of me, but the ring wraith murder of the hobbits in the inn wasn’t such a big deal, we grew up with Buggs Bunny and the Road Runner on Saturday mornings.
I remember growing up my dad was a huge lord of the rings man, and since the hobbit series hasn’t come out yet, everytime we started a new run of the LOTR movies we’d always start with this
It has
@@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317 I think he meant to type “hadn’t”
@@The_Uncommon_Cole okay
300 style graphics.
Wrong movie
As flawed as this movie is, I absolutely love it. It's almost unbelievable this movie actually got made
There's absolutely no other movie ever made that looks like it.
When you consider that it was made with a budget of 1 million$ and was constantly being harassed by producers and studio to complete the film. Also grabbing Leonard Rosenman for the OST, after he had two back to back Oscars (Barry Lyndon, Bound for Glory), is pretty impressive.
@@Nosliw837 the budget was 4 millions which is like 20 million today adjusted for inflation, not exactly a shoestring budget for an animation
@@JoeyArmstrong2800yeah, i’ve a fondness for that not quite fully rotoscoped/kinda just straight up filmed look that this movie has.
I'm so sad they never finished the rest.
8:44 again nailed it with Gandolf scolding Frodo for a situation he himself set Frodo out on his own.
Yeah but he says not to use the ring and he does, that's why he gets berated.
The movie takes an entirely different course if one assumes that the hits from the pipe that Aragorn was taking was DMT.
After seeing Gandalf look like a crazy madman in this movie, I only respect Sir Ian McKellen's portrayal even more.
Noone asked or cares
@@brandonmunsen6035 There is something wrong with you and I AM complaining.
@@brandonmunsen6035 yoooo that’s craaazy because I don’t see anywhere where ANYBODY asked for your opinion
@@brandonmunsen6035 I asked him
@@brandonmunsen6035 And I care.
Another thing I always found intresting about this adaptation is that he is already carrying the broken sword. That whole part where the busted up sword was just sitting in Rivendell is not how it was in the books. Arigorn in fact kept the Narsil in his sight and grasp at all times. When they went into Theodens hall in the book it was Narsil he had to hand over and he was none to happy to do so.
Pretty sure Narsil was reforged into Anduril before they left Rivendell.
@@Drums_of_Liberation I don't honestly remember when but I do know Arigorn in the book had it when they showed up at Eadoras and really was very pissed about having to surrender it.
@@joshualittle877drums is correct, Narsil was reforged into Andruil, Flame of the West. Since the reforged blade was now even more powerful than before, you are quite right that Aragorn threw a mini hissy fit, and then got Hama the Door Warden so scared that he agreed that no one would touch the thing on pain of death.
Well still it's interesting to see that Peter Jackson took a lot of ideas from this film. Many scenes are almost equal.
Who Is Peter your boyfriend or something? You like him or somtin.
Yeah, it is almost like they based the movies off the same books :/
@@bruhnorton8306 lol
Peter Jackson was heavily inspired by Bakshi's film to make his version. That's why you can see some homages to it.
And thankfully learned the lessons on what not to do.
I love this movie. C3po playing an elf, the music, the animation, the rotorscoping and the design of the orcs. Love it.
"Bringing a sword to a Wizard fight" "Santa Claus?!" "Designated Strider" I thoroughly enjoyed this. Also, I never saw this animated version, so that was fun. 👍
in my opinion the Theodin / Grimer Wormtung segment is handled better in the animated version.
I must have seen this dozens of times before PJ's trilogy started coming out.
Including while it was still coming out as the DVD was released just as PJ's Fellowship was in the cinema in 2001.
Jeremy apparently forgot about the Sword of Gryffindor.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster 😎😛
3:46 That was honestly my favorite part 😆Just the sudden "...SANTA??!"
Why does Frodo have so much swagger at 3:00 . That's a Lady's Hobbit walk right there
I once played a DOS based adventure game (late 80s) that eventually came to a point where it asks questions. One was what was Bilbo last name. Internet wasn't around yet and I hadn't read the books. I knew I had seen this film but could not remember the answer. To this day it bugs me that I never got past that point in the game and everyone knows the answer now. Screw you Baggins!
Dare I say: You hate the Bagginses?
We hates you, Bagginsess!!!
Well just play the game again then
LMAO!
"SCREWED BAGGINS!"
Find the game online, get an emulator, and play it in full!
I'm 46 and this is one of those movies that reminds me of my childhood during the Christmas holidays. I am also old enough to know that a factual humorous review doesn't mean I have to get bent out of shape about it. Cheers to you sir.
4:55 I cried laughing, I hadn't thought about it before but you nailed it with that description.
I remember this movie from childhood. I had no idea what rotoscoping was back then.
The animation styles are all over the place, but plenty of the orcs and enemies genuinely look pretty scary. The dark pallet and creepy realistic movement.
And then the movie cuts to hilarious or ugly rotoscoping…
Oh well. Makes me appreciate Peter Jackson and his version more. 😏
Rotoscoping has multiple meanings in terms of film FX - it can mean drawing over live action footage to create animation frames, or it can mean creating VFX image masks frame by frame by tracking objects visually from the live action footage.
they looked terrible to me when I saw this film years ago, I even recognised some of the films they pinched clips from lol
@@mnomadvfx The main characters are rotoscoped a lot of the time. When Bakshi started to run out of money, he started to simply film actors and apply a grading to the film to turn it more or less into outlines and color that. When they were *really* running out of money, they just recorded actors and used the footage as-is.
It looks a little better in the '83 Bakshi and Frank Frazetta animated film "Fire and Ice". And its got a damsel in distress in flimsy Frazetta wear. But in the behind the scenes extras you see the actress wore her skimpy princess bikini over spandex bike shorts and a gymnast top.
@@skylx0812 Fire and Ice poster was on me and my brother's bedroom wall for 20 yrs I still absolutely love that movie and Princess Tigra crawling through the log became pretty fuzzy on the VHS tape we had! No idea why that would happen?!? Every so often I tell some younger people to watch it and some do. They usually come back around to tell me they couldn't believe a cartoon movie like that could exist and if it had any sequels or what was it inspired from. I usually tell them to just look up Ralph Bakshi. I mean, Wizards is pretty weird but it's a cool concept. Fire and Ice is my favorite of all time tho.
Now, to petition or crowdfund a live-action version?!?!?!
Please do the great animated "The Hobbit" and "The Last Unicorn"! I both loved them and was disturbed by them in my youth (and again in my adulthood multiple times).
Don't forget Return of the King! "Frodo of the nine fingers....and the Ring of Doooooooooommmmmmmm........"
What no Dot and the Kangaroo? For shame.
The last Unicorn is a masterpiece!
@@iriswaldenburger2315 Yeah, this prompted me to watch "The Last Unicorn" again a couple nights ago. Still great! And the songs performed by America? Really brought me back to my youth! An amazing voice cast too!
@@thesilentninja9255 Yes, Dot and the Kangaroo. What about Watership Down? The one with the blood.
i remember seeing this movie in the theatre and absolutely loving it...i had read the hobbit and the lord of the rings before seeing this, and was so excited when this film was announced...i knew about the rotoscoping, as well as the 'cut off' ending...it was always intended to be a two-parter, so that didn't bother me (until they never came out with part two)....but since this was before peter jackson, before harry potter, before game of thrones, this was thrilling and exciting and visually amazing to see in a theatre...
I love the sin off for no elves at Helm's Deep. Honestly, I accept that Peter Jackson's version bothered me way too much on that point.
Further proof that Master Jeremy is a Tolkien nerd!🥰
Hmm I didn't really care. I know, I know, it's not the best addition to a storyline, but I always felt bad for Haldir dying
Not just you. I don't even watch these movies any more ... too much cheese and don't get me started on that stupid love-triangle they felt they had to shove in. Plus Elijah Wood was pretty terrible as Frodo. I'd take Ian Holm from the BBC radio-play any day of the week over PJ's Frodo.
@@1SaG What love triangle?
@@Jutrzen In Jackson's butchering of The Hobbit
I've seen this movie sooo much, I won't lie, Love this movie just so many memories watching it with Family espically my Grandpa and Dad. This and the animation of the The Hobbit were just insane to me in early 90's as a kid. Still is
*Fun Fact:* There is an animated adaptation of the Hobbit made by Gene Dietch (aka the creator of the worst Tom and Jerry shorts and the Popeye TV show). Though, the art style looks like it came straight out of a children's picture book, hence lighthearted and brighter tone, and was barely even animated.
Never heard about the Dietch version! I thought you were taking about the Rankin & Bass one
Interesting. I had no idea that Gene Dietch created every single Tom and Jerry short.
Found the link!
ruclips.net/video/UBnVL1Y2src/видео.html
Yeah, it was an ashcan project. Only showed once, ever.
His Tom and Jerry cartoons were great!
I love how Jeremy can’t help but reference the books, despite his normal stance that “the book doesn’t matter.” 🤣😂🤣
He must be an intense LOTR fan
I like the added sin for Gandalf going in full fingers to retrieve the Ring.
I give the trilogy that much, I like how Gandalf went after the ring with tongs, never even wanting to touch it over it's corruptive influence (and the musical score any time it's the focus of someone's growing obsession), plus the fire, and told Frodo, "Hold out your hand, don't worry, it's quite cool" (knowing no mortal flames could even raise the temperature of the metal if it was the one ring, and that it would burn Frodo if it wasn't the ring of power, so bullet dodged, lol)
Given how much energy humans on Earth work with on a regular basis, I've wondered since I was a child how our powers would compare to those of Sauron or his ring. I wonder if lasers exist in the universe of LOTR? We can dump enormous, fantastical amounts of energy and power into highly focused beams when we have a reason to do so. Light doesn't seem to work the same ways as our light, so it's not a given. The light of their universe seems to have different properties than ours, so maybe it's not possible to create a coherent beam.
Does radioactivity exist? If they had the skill, could they have refined a pile or uranium, lumped it together until there was enough of it to go supercritical, and then dumped a solar-output worth of power into the ring in an infinitesimally short instant? The ring couldn't be unmade with mortal fire because any conceivable fire that they could produce was but a speck compared to the power contained in Sauron's spirit, much of which had been dumped into the ring. I wonder how Sauron's spirit's energy levels would compare to a 2 or 3 hundred megaton explosion? He's not mortal... but his existence and power are finite. He does not contain the power necessary to reshape the world like his far more powerful former Valar bosses did. He's a minor being compared to them.
I like that the line about "I don't know half of you half as well..." line was snarky enough to make it in unchanged.
It's from the book, my dude.
Thanks to Jeremy I've finally figured out why this cartoon creeped me the hell out when I was a kid: Rotoscoping.
Oddly enough Filmation, used a lot of rotoscoping on Tarzan and Flash Gordon and it looked really great. Admittedly they reused a lot of footage, but it was well done for a budget. I still don't get why Strider had to wear like a mini-skirt. That just looked weird.
I remember seeing this as a very young child, and what with being used to cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, this was visually fascinating, but all the names and characters, and then more names and more characters?
Of course, when the trilogy hit, I had matured into a fully-fledged nerd, ready to dive into a made up language, script and all the mythology you could throw at me.
And clearly, Peter Jackson saw this, too, given that a number of scenes are very likely. Of course, his decision to have Gandalf carefully avoid touching the ring was one of the things that made the ring so beautifully, spell-bindingly ominous right from the start. I don't think I'll ever forget how the ring dropped to the floor without a bit of bounce or spinning around, like it weight pounds instead of grams.
3:14 I mean, Smeagol was a hobbit from the Vales of Anduin, as he was a Stoor, one of the early types of hobbits. He wouldn’t have known much of the world west of the Misty Mountains.
And that's not even taking account into whatever he can still remember after being under the influence of the ring for so long.
@@motherplayer He was 500+ years old aswell.
Ok but couldn't find out where hobbits tend to be found nowadays? And isn't _Mordor_ one of the dumbest places to guess if you have nothing to go on?
@@nthgth Don’t think he was just heading to Mordor, he got captured and taken there
@@TheWarLizard Good point for sure if that's the case
"What does the Ringbearer say?"
I knew it was coming, but that delay only made it so much better. xD
This version is very cool . . . Until you're left on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved. 🖤
Upgrading the way Boromir and Aragorn looked and making Boromir's death even more tragic was much needed in Jackson's first LOTR movie.
9:08 He said “like them”, also it would just be a wraith, but the rings bestow power themselves. Technically the Shades of the Oathbreakers are classified as Wraiths, albeit as an overarching term. Had Frodo died from the blade, he’d become a wraith under the servitude of the Ring Wraiths, an enthralled soul.
Jeremy sinning something he doesn't understand?! Surely not!
@@calebwinfield1403 That they don't explain it is a sin, though. Unless you read the books, their plan to turn him into a servant (as the weapon itself would transfer the curse and was thought to be incurable) would lead them to the ring guaranteed, in a few days. - ALL of that isn't obvious. You need a few seconds of exposition to explain their plan.
NNNEEEEERRRRRRDDDDD!!!!!!!!
@@LegoDork You get a donut. Also, Plek. Just rummage the corpse and get the ring? Maybe some pipeweed?
Actually he said: "like them... one of the ringwraiths"
He specifically says that Frodo would become a ringwraith so the sin stands
For sin Number 4, let us not forget that it was Sauron that taught the Elves how to craft Rings, not the other way around.
Wasn't it calabrimbor?
@@Marxak666Sauron tried to teach a bunch of elves, only Celebrimbor succumbed to his trickery
Ah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation :)@@TheOmegaXicor
@@Marxak666 yea, no worries, the rabbit hole is deep and worth exploring... I hope, I haven't reached the end of it myself.
That’s not right. Sauron learned ring craft from the elves, in the book it says he learned all their secrets and then betrayed them by making the one ring but Calibrimbor was aware of him and his plan when he put on the ring sparking the war of the last alliance
7:27 As per the wiki “Alternately described as a long knife and a blade, it was used by the Nazgûl to poison enemies. As explained by Elrond, the purpose of the knife was to break off in the wound, leaving a shard in the victim's body. The remaining blade would soon turn to dust, and the shard works its way through the body to the heart. If the shard of the blade stays in the victim for too long, the victim becomes a wraith.”
As per CinemaSins "Reading."
DING
If you need an outside source to get answers for a movie you're watching, then there's something wrong with the movie.
@@marquis911 the story was not designed to be a movie it was a book series first then adapted thus it cannot be perfect
@@marquis911 there's also something wrong with you but I'm not complaining
So this happened at least once or twice. So where are the turned wraiths? Only the nine are shown in the books. Even if the blades are hard to make still it must have happened a couple times.
I don't care what people say. Bakshi created and artistic, alternative masterpiece. He dared where others failed, he gave us the first presentation of the middle earth. Respecting the true Tolkien spirit.
And despite there are "sins" in this movie, Peter Jackson himself admitted that it was only thanks to Bkashi work that he found the inspiration to start his Trilogy
Ah yes... the movie, that got me into fantasy. My mother fed me gummy bears, because I was that emotionally invested. And got me the trilogy for my 12? 13? birthday.
I just can't help but feel that someone is about to throw some garbage at Aragorn's feet and he's gonna turn to the camera with a tear running down his cheek.
You missed sin when they’re walking through the cave after meeting Legolas: Legolas says to Aragorn “My Lord Elrond” which means the writers changed Legolas’s origin because he’s supposed to be a wood elf of the woodland realm but in this movie they made him a high elf.
That sounds like a book sin and as such has no place in this world
Legolas and Thranduil were Sindar elves who ruled over the Sylvan, aka wood elves in Mirkwood, aka Greenwood the Great. They were cousins of the Lothlorien elves.
@@claudiamcghin3419 Elrond isn’t a Lothlorien elf though. He’s a high elf. Lothlorien elves are Silvan elves which is another name for wood elves.
@@claudiamcghin3419 I’m just here to enjoy this discussion
Legolas only mentioned that Elrond sent riders out looking for Aragorn, not specifying that Legolas was sent out by him.
If we were sinning word for word, story for story accuracy here then the Sin Boys would be here all day.
10:45 Let's just gloss over the fact that it's literally a dude in a tshirt and homemade cape
Finally, I've been waiting for this.
wtf whs been waiting for lord of the rings 1979
I bet you never miss Comicon
Bilbo looks like a cross between Buddy Hackett and Lou Costello and Sam looks like Mr. McGoo.
Watching videos on youtube about how this movie was made makes many of the choices we find weird as an audience make a bunch of sometimes sad sense. It's a very interesting tale about making an ambitious movie before the tech explosion we saw in the 80s and onward.
Even Peter Jacksons version was ambitious as hell for the early 2000s, gollum is the first motion capture character ever created and still holds up pretty well.
2:59 Conor McGregor thought he stole his walk from Vince McMahon, whereas he actually stole it from Frodo Baggins.
0:55 Sauron (or you may call him Mairon) was the Maia (angel like creatures ) of the Vala Aule, and was the most talented blacksmith between the other fire Maias. Even after he lost his fair form in the Second Age, he still had his talent and powers, so it was kind of easy to do it.
Especially after (if I remember right, correct me if I'm wrong) as Annatar he influenced the elves to create the Rings with the intention to be able to control them.
Correct. He made sure that each ring when forged could be controlled by the ring he had secretly made. Quite brilliant, actually, as evil plots go.
The elf Celebrimbor actually created the three elven rings (using Sauron's teachings, but without Sauron's knowledge), which is why they are immune to Sauron's influence. Sauron had the other rings for dwarves and humans crafted, with the built-in flaw that they must submit to the power of the One Ring. PJ's movies gloss over this for simplicity.
@@Aeronor2001 Yes. I gave the cliff notes version as technically the original three rings were an entirely separate creation and not part of the problem, as it were. But there was a lot that had to be glossed over, even in the director's cut to even fit it into a movie format. Otherwise it would have been two movies per book... (I'd not have minded, but...)
@@Aeronor2001 The three elven rings are not immune to Sauron's influence, for they are bound to the fate of the One ring.
Why do you remind me of the random commenters you see leaving spam passages of Bible verses and reminding people "Jesus is coming, give yourself to him and you shall be saved"? 😂
Just so you know I mean absolutely no offence by that. The way you presented the lore there just made me think that's what you were doing for a moment. Consider me converted sir (and thanks for the information).
I love how the Rohirm stand on the outside of the top of the wall during Helm's deep. Also Glamdring exploded against the Balrog's sword in Moria. Maybe it regenerates? Which also means Gandalf fought the Balrog sans sword.
I'm just going to say it, we need more outtakes. They're the best part.
Your commentary of Aragorn tripping over his sword has me crying of laughter! 🤣🤣🤣
I remember asking my dad to show us this one just after the Fellowship came out. He said, "...fine. but it's the Precious Moments version of everything in technicolor. "
After reading the books several times, I rented this video thinking it would be awesome.
I seriously thought it was missing a tape or it was damaged because it was missing so much.
Great review!
One of the few movies cinemasins has done that's older then me (I'm 38)! I love this retro kick that the channel has been on lately. They've been hitting all the 90s classics I grew up with. Fingers crossed for so I married and ax murderer or tremors. And I love to see a Robert Redford respective like the oft mentioned sneakers (except it's a perfect film with the only sin being its title) or perhaps some of his older work like all the president's men/ 3 days of the condor/butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
Still waiting for them to do Gone With the Wind and then Birth of a Nation - the most sinful movies in history.
He needs to do the og Magnificent Seven
I'd love to see more old movies here for sure. Would be interesting to see them sin a silent movie.
@@willemverheij3412 @CinemaSins - Jazz Singer?
@@biosaari It's possible, but it might not be well known enough. I think that's also the first movie with speech so not a silent movie.
They could always go with a Charlie Chaplin movie, but I'd certainly want some sins removed too.
Metropolis could also work well, also needs some sins removed.
This film is chock-full of the most uncanny facial animations I have ever seen in any movie in my life.
You know what? That Orcs and stuff line should have been elaborated upon, as I'm sure Tolkien made like a book version of an extended cut of the Silmarillian or something else with lots of words in it, that explains in detail about how Sting would also glow when close to magnets.
The whole thing was just fluff, and played no part at all in the story, but the guys who made this movie added that line in knowing that only true Tolkien heads would understand the reference.
Pretty sure I didn't just make that up.
1:55 I don’t know why but I burst out laughing. Well done sir.
I watched The Hobbit and LOTR (animated) on movie days at school in the early 1980s. The teachers didn't explain anything to introduce them. I loved The Hobbit, but the rotoscoping of LOTR was pure nightmare fuel. The quick edits made it impossible to follow the plot. Eventually, I read the books and was still confused, because of the multiple names for characters and places. Thank goodness Peter Jackson gave me a visual aid, so I could understand the story once I read them again.
I read The Lord of the Rings at 13 and had no issues understanding it. It's not like other books have even more names, like...War and Peace, or...The Bible.
@@rikk319 I have to be honest with you, I'm not sure what to do with this new insight, but I'm sure your parents are very proud of your reading comprehension. I'm not insecure about my initial struggles with Tolkien, it all worked out for me. I doubt I had enough life experience before I was 30 to really grasp the themes of it anyway. “You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.”
If you're struggling with the Bible, I recommend the Bible Project RUclips channel or the tektonics website.
As far as War and Peace, I'd just give it a hard pass. It's basically a soap opera staged during the French invasion of Russia, with some philosophical rants interspaced throughout the book. It's historically significant as a new style of literature, but won't really change your life.
I gave up after the first book…. All this goddamned singing while walking just bored me to death.
@@iriswaldenburger2315 I get that, but remember that you can always flip a page (or more) and skip the singing. 😉
@@efpara1768 I'd have to flip too many pages then ;)
This movie was part of my childhood! Thank you for the nostalgia and laughs.
I used to watch this adaptian of LOTR a lot when i was a kid, but now as an adult i can't say it was the most memorable adaptian of the iconic book series.
everyone in my life i said i nver watched this imma bout to be petty,,,,,saw it 2cnd grade only one white man at venice beach told me he saw it...that was 2012 the mandela is real people though sinbad played a jeanie,.,,,,that was shaq lmao thasracist
Most memorable adaptation…?
This video ends better then any part or whole lord of the rings ever. Thank you.
I remember watching this as a kid, my first experience with the Lord of the Rings.
Was it good back then or were people like "WTF is this acting?"
@@CorrectionUnknown It worked for its time IMO, aged a bit rough to be sure, but was still fun
@@CorrectionUnknown Well I was just a kid, and it was a cartoon. Gotta remember that Loony Tunes, Hanna Barbarra and early Disney cartoons were the mainstay. And you had Saturday morning cartoons. You took your cartoons when you could find them and didn't question the quality. Wasn't played often though, the animated version of The Lion, With and the Wardrobe was a yearly showing for a long time. I will say it did stand out in my memory, can't say why though.
@@ruthmeow4262 neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd
@9:00 also I would loved to see a mini hobbit tenth ringwraith running around after the fellowship lol
Respect for doing this underrated gem, though!
I honestly love the Cinemasins episodes over weird, awful movies. Like Troll 2, the Room, that kind of thing. I know it's all shit, but seeing it put in perspective is just hilarious
This isn't really an awful movie
@@davidtaylor142 it kind of is though
It's sort of in the same category as the old Ninja Turtles. Nostalgic and fun as a kid, but weird, and hard to watch now
Isn't the Troll 2 review an April Fools review and therefore gave a negative sin for everything?
@@ilikecurry2345 yes
Can’t wait for his reviews of Birdemic and Sharkboy and Lavagirl
22:14 Holy hell I just spit my beer all over my keyboard
It's still amazing that they were able to condense the first two books into 1 90 minute move and make it conherent as well. Like Jackson they wanted to make 3 movies but couldn't get the funding. Because of this, Jackson asked for money for 1 movie, but was ironically given the money from the company to make all three (as it made more sense in terms of the story).
You call this coherent? If so, I’d like to see what you would call incoherent lol
Jackson asked for 2 movies.
@@Jutrzen… probably so he could just copy Bakshi’s _LOTR_ and Rankin-Bass’s _ROTK._ It was only when he had to stretch it into 3 films that the unnecessary padding started. Hint: Arwen?
Howling with laughter all the way through this forgotten nightmare.
1. Rotoscoping is not a choice I respect. It's pre - CGI Uncanny Valley.
2. I forgot John Hurt was the voice of Aragorn in this...
Rotoscoping is a seriously ugly style. It's grisly. And usually there's much better options. Animation, action, even stop motion. There's a lot of better options. It's never been any good. I don't get why they keep ressurrecting the foul thing.
In this case. Just use animation. Proper animation. None of that rotoscoping rubbish.
"Santa?!" THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE KILLED ME THE WAY IT DID LOL what the heck man
I’ve always loved this movie . We used to hire it from Linlithgow Video shop when we stayed with my Grandma . I eventually bought it in an ex rental sale .
I absolutely love the soundtrack and will never not get goosebumps when Gandalf comes thundering over the hill with the renegade Riders of Rohan .
I too had an ex rental copy: my mum owned the video store. 😉
Comparing this intro with the Peter Jackson intro, I have to say, this one is quite good! I still like the PJ one better, but this one is pretty damn effective!
Amazing how much you can tell this influenced Peter Jackson!!
Sam looks like he’s halfway to becoming a gollum from the start. I grew up with the Hobbit cartoon where Gollum was a green monster and when I found out Gollum used to be a hobbit I didn’t understand how he’d transformed like that. But this version of Sam would have made it seem natural
I loved the animated LOTR movies for the music, when I reread the Hobbit or the trilogy and get to lyrics I will always sing them as they are in these movies
Tolkien actually explains that dwarves and elves used to be really good friends until Sauron drove a wedge between them.
Now you have to do "The Hobbit 1977"
Arguably better
So much better. It felt less cartoonish and more intimidating to child me.
@@andiward7068
Same. The Gollum part was scary af to me as a kid. Just how he screamed and looked like a weird frog man and those pale eyes
I love how PJ Bilbo was willing to throw hands with Gandalf over the Ring. Bakshi Bilbo straight up drew a sword on him
I remember watching this in the 70s. Loved it!
Jeremy's parents once lost him in a Walmart store. That explains SO MUCH! 🤣😂
11:50 Because it was back during the second age that Celembrimbor and Narvi constructed that gate, back when dwarves had stronger relations with elves, namely the realm of Hollin, and after Khazad-dûm fell the art of opening the doors was lost.
Why does Boromir look like Gimli? Considering he comes from the most advanced human kingdom in Middle Earth. You think he could do better than animal skins and a viking helmet.
6:49 Arwen is in the Peter Jackson movies because she was the love interest for Aragorn and needed screentime. Which is why, where in the books it is Glorfindel who rescues the injured Frodo after he gets stabbed, she is the one who comes riding in. They probably just thought they'd rather use her than have to introduce Glorfindel as a character too given that he does essentially nothing more in contribution to taking down Sauron.
... Also, Liv Tyler. That's enough of a reason for some people. Looking at you, Cinema Sins.
The fact he removed a sin for the source-material-accurate lack of elves at Helm's Deep was great!
I'd love Aragorn's tunic. It defies physics and somehow stays down despite trouncing through the forest...
It must come from the same clothing line as those anime mini-skirts.
4:28 the people partying in the prancing Pony are literally my definition of how a fever dream would look like to me
I rented this from Blockbuster as a little kid, and I remember it like a fond fever dream lol
Growing up as a big Tolkien fan, this (and the Rankin and Bass Hobbit and Return of the King) are all we had aside from reading the books. None of them are even close to perfect, but they were still pretty cool.
Tolkien absolutely hated allegory, that stuff about jesus is not true. That was something that his friend C.S. Lewis was all about.
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I remember my father renting this movie twice when I was a child. I fell assleep around the same time, both times, lol. It was a little after Frodo gets stabbed. I remember him fighting the ringwraith, I remember him wounded on a horse, and that's it. I never saw the full movie, and I don't regret it, to tell you the truth.
Be very careful when you're sinning absolute classics!
The Black and Hispanics on his Friday review..that man is brave and egoless but hope hes not a bernie bro
I’m going to assume they’re also doing the animated Return of the King and The Hobbit soon, right?! Next they should do The Black Cauldron!
2:11 Tree ROOT, there wouldn’t be branches underground. *Ding!
My dad and I used to watch these a ton on vhs when I was a kid. Really loved the hobbit the most, but lord of the rings and return of the king was still good.
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There are few videos I like to revisit again and again when I fail to fall asleep but this is one of them!
Well, I guess all I have to say is thank goodness Peter Jackson perfected the film adaptations for this story two-and-a-half decades later 😁
I wouldn't say "perfected," but definitely a vast improvement
@@Mare_Manpoor, poor Gimli. never forgive, never forget
I lost it when he said “Santa!”.