For Gods sake the Lord of the Rings was christ-knows how many pages long. How was it supposed to be turned into a word for word animation?! Even if Bahkshi had been 100% faithful to the book there still would have been complaints that the way the characters were drawn were nothing like the way readers imagined them. A book like Lord of the Rings is almost impossible to film satisfactorily because it has such a HUGE following and everyone had their own opinion of what it should be like.
The animation was groundbreaking for its time and added an certain, dread-filled and stylish atmosphere to the film. What did you want? Disney? The fact that the film stops half way through the story is admittedly a fault but not of the film itself (however i'd agree with statements that say it's overlong because it is.... but then so is the book). The actors used to voice the characters were wonderfully authentic (esp.Hurt) and niggling quibbles aside (the 'Aruman' thing) this is an entertaining and worthwhile film for fans of the book. To be honest i don't think you can favourably compare any book and subsequent film. The mediums are too different.
The animation was groundbreaking for its time and added an certain, dread-filled and stylish atmosphere to the film. What did you want? Disney? The fact that the film stops half way through the story is admittedly a fault but not of the film itself (however i'd agree with statements that say it's overlong because it is.... but then so is the book). The actors used to voice the characters were wonderfully authentic (esp.Hurt) and niggling quibbles aside (the 'Aruman' thing) this is an entertaining and worthwhile film for fans of the book. To be honest i don't think you can favourably compare any book and subsequent film. The mediums are too different.
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