Reply #72: Hee hee, I think I've only ever met

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2 or 3 people who actually agree with me that Bakshi's version is glorious and the Jackson films are utter tripe, so I expect a lot of splats. :)

I have to admit that I've watched the Bakshi movie maybe 150 times in the last 20 years, so I'm biased, and it has certainly shaped a lot of what I "see" in the books.

My main problem with the Jackson films is that for 25 years Tolkien fans have been dissing Bakshi, and then Jackson comes along and takes far more liberties than Bakshi ever dreamed of taking, and everyone just goes ga-ga over him. I thought Fellowship was good overall (Great in places (Balrog, Hobbiton, Moria), horrible in others (Flight to the Ford, Council of Elrond, Weathertop, Lurtz, Lothlorien, Galadriel)) but the Two Towers was pretty much awful after the first 5 minutes (which were brilliant) from Jar-Jar-Gollum to the suicide bomber (the absolute WORST point) to the dumbass Nazgul, to Arargorn over a cliff, to the silly Faramir to the absurd denial of Tolkien's perfect gimme-a-cliffhanger ending!

"Frodo was alive, but taken by the enemy."

Best-cliffhanger-ever!

Anyway, I know, I know... at least I like tomatoes!!

david

Kucinich 2004