Chicago – Last week we covered the highly anticipated Blu-ray release of “Lord of the Rings” and even had a chat with Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop about the Best Picture-winning film from director Peter Jackson. There may be a few fans of that series out there who don’t know that Jackson, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, and Ian McKellen weren’t the first to go to Middle Earth. Ralph Bakshi went there over three decades ago and his animated “Lord of the Rings” is now on Blu-ray for the first time.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Watching it now, Bakshi’s “Lord of the Rings” feels like an interesting historical relic but you really have to put yourself in the shoes of a 1978 movie goer to thoroughly appreciate it. Animation for adults wasn’t nearly as common as it is now (this is even pre-“Heavy Metal”). Bakshi had broken ground in that...
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Watching it now, Bakshi’s “Lord of the Rings” feels like an interesting historical relic but you really have to put yourself in the shoes of a 1978 movie goer to thoroughly appreciate it. Animation for adults wasn’t nearly as common as it is now (this is even pre-“Heavy Metal”). Bakshi had broken ground in that...
- 4/12/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Ralph Bakshi has been a visionary filmmaker and animator, whose ambitions always seemed larger than his talent. After cutting his teeth at Terry Toons, he talked his way into running Paramount’s dying animation arm before moving on to work such as the ABC Saturday morning Spider-Man series. He finally gained recognition when he set out to make feature-length films, beginning with the X-rated Fritz the Cat.
Bakshi’s tastes have always run towards edgy fare and he’s produced animated film son subjects Walt Disney or Don Bluth would never have approached, such as American Pop and Hey Good Lookin’ and for that he deserves credit. Unfortunately, in just about every case, the projects have been flawed, largely because not enough money was spent on the animation or the story so they never felt finished.
In the 1970s Bakshi was in the right place at the right time when...
Bakshi’s tastes have always run towards edgy fare and he’s produced animated film son subjects Walt Disney or Don Bluth would never have approached, such as American Pop and Hey Good Lookin’ and for that he deserves credit. Unfortunately, in just about every case, the projects have been flawed, largely because not enough money was spent on the animation or the story so they never felt finished.
In the 1970s Bakshi was in the right place at the right time when...
- 4/4/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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