What do you think of this, Sup Forums?
What do you think of this, Sup Forums?
Luis James
Gabriel Fisher
Love it.
Haven't seen the Lord of the Rings movie done around that time though, is that any good?
Easton Morales
My friends all say its ugly but honestly I think the art is choice
Nicholas Mitchell
I am quite fond of the whimsical feeling of all the Rankin-Bass flicks of this era. There really is nothing quite like them.
Cameron Lopez
That musical sting when Gandalf steps out at the beginning, man.
Matthew Nguyen
Infinitely superior to the live action trilogy, at 6-7 times less the length.
Plus, the soundtrack is maximum comfy.
Andrew Howard
Lord of the Rings is shit but Return of the King is good again.
Daniel Jones
It's my favorite one of the animated series.
Those fucking songs.
GO LIMMIWINKS....STOP WIKILEAKS....RUN RUN THE BATTLE'S ON, WIKILEAKS AND LIMMIWINKS
Justin Myers
>6-7 times less
Jonathan Nguyen
I have that VHS from when I was a kid even though I don't own a VCR anymore.
It's a classic. Truly 10/10.
Cooper Thomas
Da BEST
Great music, great art, and tells a great story in a neat 75min time without feeling like it missed out a lot of stuff (60s hobbit) or had too much (Peter Jackson)
Tyler Perry
It's pretty good, as is the return of the king.
I highly recommend checking out The Flight of Dragons made by the same people. It's really, really great. One of my favourite fantasy films.
Noah Reyes
It's got some serious flaws, but still overall quite a good film. I suppose it gains some undue favor in my eyes because I can't help but compare it now to Jackson's Hobbit.
To put it one way, the Rankin-Bass film has all of the virtues that Jackson's lacks.
Christian Ortiz
>Have a multimillion dollar budget and a movie's worth of padding
>Still fuck up Smaug's boast
You had one job PJ.
Rankin Bass's version of that scene was fucking fantastic
Brody Brooks
It's amazing
Caleb Flores
This is a good thread
Brody Wood
Adore it. Beautiful illustrated animation that you'll never see again and catchy fun, or even moving music. "The greatest adventure" is such a goof song to me, seriously gets me excited to create and pursue my goals in life. And that storyteller voice its sung in. Love it, I love Tolkien.
Owen Johnson
meant good song, not goof
Jaxson White
I don't know if the posts are ironic here or not.
Ayden Ward
No. We all genuinely enjoy this movie. Animation is great; all the characters are well voiced, especially Smaug.
David Long
What was Smaug's tax policy?
Samuel Gray
Best Smaug
John Torres
Jackson got fucked by the studios. They couldn't do forced perspective hacks because the studio wanted to do 3D to squeeze more cash out.
Angel Harris
I've never particularly cared for anything Tolkein, but I have a special place in my heart for Rankin-Bass animation.
My sister and I also constantly quote Bilbo's "FOUR ARMIES?" line in this.
Bentley Clark
Jackson didn't even want to do The Hobbit. He was essentially forced to since Guillermo del Toro backed on the project.
I mean LOTR stressed him the fuck out and he never wanted to do anything like it again
Lincoln Garcia
>FOUR-TEE TWO ARMIES
Juan Rivera
Always does me good to see a Hobbit poop
Xavier Bennett
and I'm guessing a lot of us saw this as young children and have nostalgia for it. i know i do
Ryder Parker
Then why is it so stretched out over multiple movies? If he didn't want to do it, couldn't he have just done one film? Wouldn't cutting the overall runtime they were going for make it easier?
Xavier Stewart
Although he claimed that making three movies was his own choice, I don't know if I buy it. I think the studio forced his hand in a lot of places. The production was supposedly a mess.
William Howard
>MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Wyatt Fisher
>parents rented this movie for me
>was basically dragging my feet into watching it because it looked old and dumb
>fell inlove hard with the story and the characters
>then a year later, the LOTR movies came out
Shit was awesome.
Liam Scott
The initial plan was to do two movies. The Hobbit and a "bridge film" that'd dive into what Gandalf was up to and stuff that happened between Hobbit and Rings.
That changed into just splitting Hobbit into two movies and incorporating the Gandalf plot into the narrative. And that's when the suits asked for him to make it three.