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“Hey, yeah. The 1960’s? Happy times, heavy times.” Those are the first eight words of Ralph Bakshi’s “Fritz the Cat.” This isn’t your average animated flick. The movie was a trailblazer as it was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the MPAA.
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In 1978, the first film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was released directed by Ralph Bakshi. This epic only covered The Fellowship of the Ring and most of The Two Towers.
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Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards is just as relevant today as it was when it first came out in 1977, if not more so. The story is set after celebrating 3000 years of peace, since the world blew up in “a thousand atomic fireballs.”
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Iron Man Three, the first leap back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the Avengers is out. How does this movie stack up in comparison with the other two Iron Man movies? How does it work within the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe and moreover how does it continue the story? Ignoring the how, does it even do any of those things?
The answer… Yes it does.
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” These were the lines I was waiting for as I sat in the theater to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. They weren’t the first lines of the movie as I had hoped but Peter Jackson and his writing crew had more to accomplish than just telling the story of The Hobbit.
He had to weave us back through the Lord of the Rings, where he started our cinematic voyage through Middle Earth, back to the story that set it all into motion.
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