They have a cave troll....

"I would have followed you my brother...my captain...my King"

"Be at peace son of counter-terrorist team #2"

"We're Switching maps carl and I'm glad your with me!"

*sniff* That was ******* Beautiful!
 
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Also the flashback bit where Gondor has recaptured Osgiliath and Boromir is stood atop the ruins giving his speech and cries "For Gondor, For Gondor, For Gondor!"
 
Boromir's death in the animated one is much more brutal... he gets totally hammered with loads of arrows to the chest.
 
Boromir is probably my favourite - just because he doesnt seem to fit in to the "tight-knit" fellowship like the others yet he fights for their cause nonetheless. Ohh and much prefer the extended version of his death scene over the standard one RIP M8 :(
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"I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor"
"I know."
and then he walks toward the sixty odd UrukHai all calm and deadly....
Aragorns my hero :D
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ehh?? Aragorn fights 60 of em after killing their leader and attending to Boromir? Uhh dont think so. You watching the same movie ? There is no urukhai left, they took the hobbits, killed Boromir and ran away.

And goldenballs Aragorn doesnt really fight 60 of the urukhai. He's cutting them down as they are trying to get to the hobbits. If they actually stopped and fought him he would be dead too. The only one who basically puts himself between the hobbits and 100s of the mothers.....is Boromir.
 
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He gets pinned to a tree with all the arrows going through him aswell. If I remember rightly.
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Its like an old dead stump if memory serves, but I didn't think he was pinned to it just forced back against it.

And his beard rocks.

Sean Bean's Boromir is nothing in comparison.
 
agreed bit of a miscast there imo.. (edit your right about the stump. Boromir is slumped sitting down against it, with arrows in him)
 
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Not really comparing animated <> movie BUT rather how close each comes to what is in the books. In other words how close they are to the source material (Tolkien)

Damn me i dont have the animated version anymore i'll have to buy it again. Not before i buy the Dragonlance movie DVD though :D
 
Watched the extended version of FoTR last night...forgot how amazing it is. Didn't quite make it all the way through though as i started at 11pm...fell asleep about 2ish. Will finish tonight!
 
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Why are you comparing animated to real movie?
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Why not? They're adaptations of the same book, and are both films.

What is the problem with comparison? :confused:

IMO had Peter Jackson's films not pandered to the masses, and stayed faithful to the book (ie not made up entire stretches of story) it would have been far better. Even though I am a big fan of the films they aren't a patch on what they could have been.

The Bakshi version stays faithful, and thus is worthy of a mention here.
 
If film directors don't as you sat pander to the masses, then their films generally don't get released. You see it all the time. At the end of the day if film execs don't like ideas that directors come up with then film's get canned. Besides Peter himself in the voice overs on the extras of the dvd's tells you why they changed this and that. I see them all as separate entities with their own take on they story anyway. Wouldn't be possible to do an exact copy of the book, the film would be 40 hours and quite dull.
 
The animated version managed to be faithful to the book, atmospheric, have the right themes and be better than the Jackson films. It is possible to do :)
 
I think your missing the point, the animated version didn't cost 300 million to make and take 2 years of nonstop filming. It's like comparing X-men cartoons to the film's, you can't get all the detail in 3 2 hour films that you can in 50 30 minute cartoons and be faithful to the story. Corners must be cut. Besides, if it was that good, and im not knocking it really because I quite enjoyed it too, they would have at least finished it. :D
 
It was that good, they just didn't have the cash :(

BTW I don't really get your point. It wasn't a bunch of cartoons, it was a single animated adventure story?
 
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