Bakshi did the LotR film (or half-film). The Hobbit one was Rankin/Bass.
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You can tell from the house style. Rankin/Bass had a distinctive sense of fantastical caricature, while Bakshi just took live actors and covered them in layer after layer of paint until they looked like cartoon characters.
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Who’s to say that he can’t apply 1700 lbs or so of force with each step he takes? But yeah, it basically couldn’t work.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/04/laws-physics-not-apply-legolas/amp/?client=safari
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HISHE really nailed it in their post-credits cut scene. Starts at 4:25.
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It’s called rotoscoping.
And I haven’t mustered the strength to watch the last film yet. I have forgotten the other two and almost feel I should watch them again, but do I really want to do that to myself?
That’s what Bakshi claimed, but the truth is that actor William Squire actually spent up to 14 hours a day wearing a beard made from 25 pounds of acrylic paint.
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A Red Dwarf / Blade Runner crossover would be nice.
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Red Runner? (Meep, meep.)
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I’ve heard it prominently features Josh Gad.
It was bad enough they fucked up the book the first time.
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I’m still excited to see him as LeFou. It may be typecasting, but it’s perfect typecasting.
Everybody remember TRON: Legacy ?
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I went to see an extended Daft Punk video mostly. It was okay at that level.
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Depends on the property. Commander Data, yes. C3PO, no. Ash and Bishop, no? Annalee Call, maybe? Kryten, yes. Marvin, no (but not because he’s an android; dreaming about sheep would just be … depressing; you’re now reading this in Alan Rickman’s voice). My previous phone, no but only because every single app needed to be updated at least once an evening. Fitful sleep indeed.
Bad joke successfully overdone. Geeking about the title and its meaning in the spoiler block.
[spoiler]In DADES, it’s a bit complicated because the electric sheep aren’t an android analogue for sheep made of meat that humans count to sleep. Most of the animals have died and a new religion stresses the importance of relationships with animals. People buy electric pets. Sheep are considered one of the better ones.
Electric sheep in the title could be a shorthand for a new form of consumerism, acclaim-seeking, etc. Or they could be a reference to the question of whether Deckard is an android or just a really shitty human.[/spoiler]
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I don’t think that’s a good way to measure a movie’s quality. What makes for a good book doesn’t always make for a good film, especially when it’s a Philip K. Dick story.
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Agreed.
Most of Dick’s work wouldn’t translate well to film, IMO.
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Not a straight-up adaptation at any rate. But Blade Runner worked as a film noir detective story and Total Recall worked just fine as a testosterone-fueled sci-fi action flick.
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I enjoy his books, but it’s noticeable how often the adapations have only taken the idea and created something quite different:
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is nothing like Total Recall. Ditto The Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau.
A Scanner Darkly is a pretty close adaptation, though.
Heh. They made a film of Radio Free Albemuth?
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That one sorta worked, I guess; but the end result wasn’t as interesting as I expected.
Honestly, it was kinda boring; animation quality notwithstanding.
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