It's official: they have now released a trailer for The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg's movie adaptiation of the classic comic.
The Adventures of Tintin
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I like how they only showed close-up of a face at the very end... does look better then in the screens we saw a while back though.
Also, the desert scenes made me check and they are including The Crab with the Golden Claws in the film... i wonder how they'll make it fit if they start out with the Unicorn from the get go (seeing how the ship is part of that hallucination in the desert)...
Also, the desert scenes made me check and they are including The Crab with the Golden Claws in the film... i wonder how they'll make it fit if they start out with the Unicorn from the get go (seeing how the ship is part of that hallucination in the desert)...
Billions of blistering blue barnacles! A Tintin movie!
I am cautiously eager, if only because I love the series (especially Haddock and Thomson & Thompson) so much and a new adventure is always welcome. For that I suppose I am in the same position as @Li3n, bad graphics won't matter too much for me.
I am cautiously eager, if only because I love the series (especially Haddock and Thomson & Thompson) so much and a new adventure is always welcome. For that I suppose I am in the same position as @Li3n, bad graphics won't matter too much for me.
Just how well know is Tintin in America? The only time I've heard about the character was when Spielberg announced he was going to direct. Then I looked into it, and it did not look like it would fly here. But it should make a Billion overseas.
From what I've read, they're apparently drawing from The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure for the storyline.
Yeah, like i said, i looked it up.
But The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure are one storyline, and The Crab with the Golden Claws seems to me like it would fit very weirdly inside that storyline (the trailer implies The Unicorn ship is already a plot point by the time they're in the desert - which is from Crab), while doing it before will make it seem too much like 2 films...
I'm cautiously interested.
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Okay, so Spielberg is gonna go and fuck Herge's work up the ass. Damn I'm gonna wriOHMIFUCKINGOOOODDD!!! THAT FACE!! THAT UNCANNY VALLEY JUST MELTED MY EYES!!!! AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!
Apparently, it's one of those things that you either read it as a kid and you love it or you didn't read it as a kid and you're ambivalent about it. Dave, since you're older than time, you were doomed to having no strong feelings about Tintin from the start.
North_Ranger
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Pretty much what Allen said. Yours truly read just about every Tintin book there was in the school library and loved every damn one of them.
Tintin was what I got to read when I was eight and was spending a lot of time in bed after my first operation on my leg. Also Warioland.
We can rename this thread "Tintin memories"!
And make Dave feel bad for not being part of these awesome and touching tintin moments.
And make Dave feel bad for not being part of these awesome and touching tintin moments.
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I am glad you have not been lured by the young boy.
I'm sorry to say I haven't read the comics yet. I was introduced to Tintin through an animated series made in the early '90s that was good.
Self contained, high adventure stories that (after Tintin in America) have good research on the cultures/countries/situations they take place in... what's not to love?
As i recall the cartoons where pretty faithful to the comics, and just skipped over some stuff for time.
I really liked Tintin and the Picarros but thought that it was a real dick move of professor calculus to secretly drug the captain into not being able to drink anymore. If had the Captain's money I would arrange for the professor's pendulum to guide him towards an open man hole cover for that one.
North_Ranger
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I think it was even dicker of the Professor to use the native Americans as guinea pigs. Considering they had just helped them and were now sheltering them from a cheesed-off military dictator. Professor Calculus, you are a douchebag!
I've just started reading the comics. It's a shame I haven't read them sooner. I quite enjoy them.
Nothing about that grabs or interests me.
But it's Steven Spielberg.
But it's Steven Spielberg.
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Philosopher B.
Lots of rad people involved. I can stomach some funky visuals if it's as rad-ass as it should be otherwise.
It's called characterization... (also, he's a mad scientist, just not an evil one).
Characterization... as a dickish scientist.
Don't forget the rocketship he developed.
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Philosopher B.
Calculus seriously needs to stop acting the goat!
Don't say the "G" word! We'll never get him to shut up now.
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