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From: rene@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bakshe? Good, but not great... - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 16:21:46 EDT
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"The Lord of the Rings" was only meant to be the first half of the
famous Tolkien trilogy - that's why the journey into Mordor was left
out. They didn't destroy the ring or anything, remember? The second
half, "The Return of the King" was done by Rankin-Bass, and I thought
it was awful. At least TLotR had acceptable animation and was
relatively faithful to the original. TRotK was of Saturday Morning
cartoon (e.g. Scooby-doo, etc.) quality, and was mostly non-plot
filled with monotonous repetitions of "The bearer of the ring, the
bearer of the ring, the bearer of the ring, ..." etc, etc. etc.
The only redeeming feature was the song "Where there's a whip, there's
a way" sung by the orcs, and even that wasn't all that great. Give me
Bakshi any time.

					- rene

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