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List Price: £13.99
Our Price: £1.59
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives...
 Flawed but fab, 2010-07-23
This was the first version of LOTR that I saw and it is still my favourite. Many scenes in this cartoon are similar to those in Peter Jackson's epic. Yes, it isn't the complete story and ends abruptly but there is still much to savour. If you haven't seen it yet, it is well worth a punt.
Staring:
Simon Baker, Gordon Tootoosis, Tantoo Cardinal, Lorne Cardinal, Kennetch Charlette
Director:
Gil Cardinal
Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Alternative Footage, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Miniseries, based on the novel by Rudy Wiebe, depicting the story of Plains Cree Chief Big Bear and his people in Canada in the 1880s and '90s, told from the point of view of the Cree. Canadian government officials seek to confine the Cree onto reserves as settlers encroach on the plains where the Cree have always hunted freely. Big Bear's determination not to sign away ancestral rights to the land brings starvation to his followers, tearing apart his community and his own family. After holding out for years, he finally signs the treaty so his people may eat. He himself refuses to be tied to a reserve as tensions mount between the Canadian authorities and Big Bear. After 10 years of resistance, his warriors reject Big Bear's leadership and join war chief Wandering Spirit and Big Bear's son, Little Bad Man, to launch a fatal confrontation with Canadian troops. Big Bear surrenders in order to negotiate with the government on behalf of his people and their f...
Staring:
Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives...
Flawed but fab, 2010-07-23
This was the first version of LOTR that I saw and it is still my favourite. Many scenes in this cartoon are similar to those in Peter Jackson's epic. Yes, it isn't the complete story and ends abruptly but there is still much to savour. If you haven't seen it yet, it is well worth a punt.
List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £9.92
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Greg Davies
Funniest TV show ever!, 2010-08-21
This is the funniest TV show I've ver seen; I've watched each episode about 5 times and I can't stop laughing.
The DVD is PAL and region two, but plays correctly on my North American Sony DVD player and in my computer.
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, Emily Head, James Buckley, Blake Harrison
Can't recommend this more!, 2010-05-26
One weekday evening a few years ago, I rented the first series of The Inbetweeners from my local video shop. I had to be up early for work the next day so I was only planning to watch an episode or two to see what the fuss was about. I ended up staying up until the early hours of the morning and watching all six episodes in a row.
Sort of a cross between The Peep Show and American Pie, The Inbetweeners is without a doubt one of the funniest TV shows out at the moment. The show centres around four teenage boys who are no longer children but not quite adults (in other words "inbetween"). Like anyone else their age, they spend their days unsuccessfully chasing girls, trying to get into house parties/nightclubs, fretting about exams and trying to get served at the off licence/local pub. Although it's not quite as realistic as a fly-on-the-wall documentary, many of the things that pre-occupy Will, Simon, Neil and Jay, pre-occupy any lad who has ever been 16, 17, 18 or 19 years old. But not only does the show have it's finger on the pulse of Britain's youth, it also makes you laugh in every way possible. There's big belly laughs that cause tears to stream down your face and your ribs to ache ("Feisty one, you are!"); there's laughs that stay with you and still manage to crack you up months later when you remember them ("Bus w**kers!"); and there are laughs to be had over and over when you quote them to your mates ("Ooo, fwend!").
List Price: £5.99
Our Price: £17.99
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul, Simon Oates, Jean Trend
Director:
Peter Sasdy
Well worth watching., 2004-07-10
I am probably biased because I really like this sort of movie from the days when the scariest thing to see was an actor with blobby chunks of makeup on his/her face. I think computer graphics have taken some of the shock and intrigue out of films these days and you don't even need a storyline if you use enough of them. This is another from the stable of great old movies that had all the horror and suspense of todays movies (if not more) but none of the overdone explosions and superfluous sex scenes. The Cornish "accents" were entirely unrealistic but that's usually the case (fair enough, if they had used Cornish actors the wider market may not have understood what was being said) Just in case people don't realise, the Cornish aren't all mutated hillbillies either(my family are Cornish so I thought I'd better set that straight LOL). But I think the film warrants suspension of beleif. All in all a good movie if you like this sort of thing and worth watching even if you don't. P.S.
Wayne, NJ United States
"...anyone familiar with Britain the scenes seemed to have been shot in Scotland. A minor quibble but..." I don't wish to appear to be pedantic but it said filmed in Cornwall and Pinewood studios in the credits so I'd say it was probably Cornwall not Scotland. The Cornish and Welsh coastlines can be quite similar to Scotland's because they all rose from the same backbone of rocky outcrop up the west coast of Britian.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £5.17
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison, Simon Bird, Greg Davies, James Buckley
Hilarious, 2010-04-29
I love the Inbetweeners, its so funny, although a little explicit. Series 2 made me laugh many times, such as when they are stuck in the boat and they catch a fish. 'And say what? Help, we've caught a fish, we're only in the harbour, what are they going to do, tow us 4 feet closer to the shore!' made me laugh so much, Simon Bird (Will) is a really good actor. Another example is when they use hair removal cream to take away Wills pubes, but he has a date and wants them back, so Simon suggests to use a wig. If you are considering buying it, do as you won't regret it :)
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives ...
Flawed but fab, 2010-07-23
This was the first version of LOTR that I saw and it is still my favourite. Many scenes in this cartoon are similar to those in Peter Jackson's epic. Yes, it isn't the complete story and ends abruptly but there is still much to savour. If you haven't seen it yet, it is well worth a punt.
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