Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, Part One: A Critique Perhaps the hardest thing, for me, in preparing this web-page is having to view this movie over again. I saw it with friends in the theatre when it first came out, within mere days of its' opening, and loathed it. I came across it again last year, stumbling across it in a video store, and found myself thinking, Oh, it can't possibly be as ...

The Lord of the Rings (1978) If I ever meet Ralph Bakshi in person, I shall kick him square in the privates. It is, perhaps, somewhat sad that Ralph Bakshi will be remembered not for the many excellent animated movies he made, but for the hideous, misguided, ill-thought-out, poorly edited, badly scored, all around putrid movie that is The Lord of the Rings. First, let me say right up front for ...