Nope, sorry, listeners, it's not THAT Lord of the Rings... it's the other Lord of the Rings. Oh, you didn't know there was another Lord of the Rings? From the 1970s? Well, come into our Hobbit hole and lend an ear!

J.R.R. Tolkien did a lot of things brilliantly, naming the homes of Hobbits 'holes' was not one of them.

Moving on.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast, Josh and Ryan take on the rotoscoped animated classic The Lord of the Rings as presented by Ralph Bakshi, the godfather of adult animation. And that's important, because this is one weird cartoon.

We'll go into the actual animation process, why this film remains a 'must see' for fans of the later productions, and how its enduring influence has given us the beloved Peter Jackson versions we know today. At once far ahead of its time and delightfully anachronistic, this is one of those forgotten time pieces that deserves a nod, but maybe not much more than a nod.

For fans of the books, fans of cinema, fans of animation, and fans of unbelievably weird things, this movie has something for almost everyone!

The Lord of the Rings was released in 1978 and stars the voice talents of John Hurt, Anthony Daniels, and William Squire

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When the skies are filling with black, apocalyptic clouds and locusts, what do you do?

Well, if you're Jeep Hanson in 2010's dark modern fantasy Legion, you stare at it blankly for a moment before casually going back to whatever you were doing before and telling absolutely no one.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast, Josh and Ryan puzzle their way through an astonishingly inept tale of good versus evil, angels versus demons, the end of the world as we know it if not for the coming of a second christ child, and what happens when you put Paul Bettany into a movie that badly... BADLY wants to be Terminator.

Come for the dogmatic discussion, stay for the absolute absurdity of writing, clunkiness of dialogue, and derivative nature of almost every single move this film makes.

With a cast that can be enthusiastically described as B-, except for a few standouts like Vision and Lt. Tuck Pendleton (that's right 80's fans, that's an Innerspace reference!) and a writing team that clearly wanted to be making a different movie, Legion aims to please no one and succeeds.

Legion was released in 2010 and stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, and I guess kinda Lucas Black, but he's not really sure most of the movie if he should be acting or just staring at things.

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Life is nothing but a slap in the face, so goes the song. So goes the race.

The rat race, that is to say.

As in the 2001 ensemble slapstick comedy loosely based on a 1963 ensemble slapstick comedy, Rat Race.

Except Rat Race isn't almost four hours long. And yet, somehow, it's still far too long.

This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are discussing the nuances of this blistering critique of the ultra-wealthy one percent and the twisted, sadistic ways they play with regular people's lives. We also chat about where the heck are Amy Smart and Breckin Meyer, whose stars were on the rise when they made this film but have since flamed out. The candle that burns twice as bright truly burns half as long.

Join us for a conversation about how the first act of Rat Race is a master class in character introduction, followed by nearly two more hours of non-sequitur scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with advancing the plot or moving characters along an arc. It's just a movie full of scenes. That's it.

And, if your bingo card has "Ryan defends Top Gun again and Josh rages at him for it," mark your board because we've got a doozy at the end of this episode!

In a surprisingly nuanced chat considering the subject matter in question, this week's episode of CineMeh will have you chasing the cheese and tucking the taters.

Rat Race was released in 2001 and stars Breckin Meyer, Cuba Gooding Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimi, John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson.

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