Awesome, that's absolutely the same and I would love that cel on my wall; the art style of that movie is so bad ass. I've never heard of Bakshi and I'm gonna check him out. Thanks for the info!

http://www.ralphbakshi.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_28&products_id=84

above link is a cell from bakshi's lord of the rings. same no?

^Thank you TRB.^ That movie was absolutely beautiful, visually and otherwise. Full of fantastic acting, pacing, and genuine suspense. I love that people can't seem to tolerate the ending and think that it ruins the movie as a whole. And then blame it on the Coen's writing. I found it troubling but what grade were we all in when the teacher covered the idea that some stories don't have a typical ending? 2nd? 3rd?

Thanks though Deano for at least giving credit to Raising Arizona, one of Nick Cage's finest performances. But it sounds to me like you're just jumping on the, "It's cool to dislike this because so many people do like it" bandwagon. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though. I'm not trying to be a dick.

Couldn't agree more about "The Hudsucker Proxy" DFT. That movie is one of the greatest examples of comedic timing ever. I find when I show it to people, especially actors, that their biggest problem with the whole movie is that their modern, sitcom inundated minds can't pay attention to any sentence longer than ten words and they just zone out. It's really unfortunate. There are so many great performances there.

EDIT: Wow, for once a youtube comment intelligently sums it up:

"But the Coens aren't remaking this film. They're adapting the book. I think there's room for different film versions of books. If there wasn't, we would've never had Peter Jackson's version of the Lord of the Rings as we've be left with Ralph Bakshi's version."

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, whip, frodo, orcs, cartoon, bakshi' to 'Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, whip, frodo, orcs, cartoon' - edited by Spiff

Huh. Well, I stand corrected. Considering how Bakshi's movie is sometimes marketed with this one, I see how I might have gotten confused.

>> ^Spiff:
>> ^ponceleon:
Why the bakshi tag? I don't believe he had anything to do with this one.

Actually, he directed it.


Bakshi's Lord of the Rings only covered events from the first two books. This clip is most likely from Warner Bros' The Return of the King.

>> ^ponceleon:
Why the bakshi tag? I don't believe he had anything to do with this one.


Actually, he directed it.

Why the bakshi tag? I don't believe he had anything to do with this one.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, whip, frodo, orcs, cartoon' to 'Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, whip, frodo, orcs, cartoon, bakshi' - edited by Spiff

Ralph Bakshi is a hack. Just because he was practically the only one doing adult animation in the 70s and 80s does not mean his stuff was any good. I defy you to sit down today and watch Fritz The Cat, Wizards, the bakshi LOTR movies, Cool World, etc... and tell me you think they're any good. I know he made some other crappy films but memory fails me and I won't go to imdb to pad out a comment post. Oh yeah, American Pop. I guess if you're stoned enough it can be sort of halfway not a piece of runny diarrhea. He only made one watchable movie from my point of view, that being Fire and Ice, made in 1983.

When I was a kid I watched this movie all the time. It really influenced my taste. It's a great film for those who like weird animation. Also, check out Bakshi's "Fritz the Cat"

This movie's utter crap, like most everything Ralph Bakshi ever did.

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. Based on the comic books by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.

The film is a satire on American college life of the 1960s: while Fritz doesn't attend any classes during the movie, he participates in major social upheavals based around the popular college protest movement of the time.

The film made $90 million worldwide. The film's success led to a slew of other "X rated and animated" films, including Dirty Duck and Bakshi's own film Heavy Traffic. There was also a sequel called The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, which neither Crumb nor Bakshi had anything to do with.

In 2003, the Online Film Critics Society ranked the film as the 51st greatest animated film of all time. In 2004, Fritz the Cat landed at number 56 on Channel 4's list of the 100 Greatest Cartoons.

- More @ Wikipdia

Heavy Metal was a unique piece of art and should not be put in the same pile as the utter crap that is anything done by Ralph Bakshi.

I made a new source from my own DVD. Enjoy!

(The "Bigger" link still goes to the lower quality version)