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The Adventures of Tintin

#1

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

It's official: they have now released a trailer for The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg's movie adaptiation of the classic comic.


#2

@Li3n

@Li3n

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)...


#3

Frank

Frankie Williamson

Was looking forward to this. Am not anymore.

Those characters look like nightmare creations.


#4

@Li3n

@Li3n

As long as the story is good i can handle bad graphics...


#5

Wahad

Wahad

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.


#6

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

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.


#7

Frank

Frankie Williamson

We had the comics when I was a kid in the library and the tv show ran on saturday mornings for like a decade. It's pretty known in Canada.


#8

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

@Li3n said:
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)...
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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.


#9

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

That...looks really really bad. :(

Why didn't they just do a heavily stylized live-action? Tintin deserves better than the Polar Express treatment.


#10

@Li3n

@Li3n

filmfanatic said:
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.
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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...


#11

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

I'm cautiously interested.


#12

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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!!!


#13

Dave

Dave

I've never gotten the supposed allure of Tintin.


#14

Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

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.


#15

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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.


#16

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

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.


#17

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

When I was little, my mother read The Secret of the Unicorn to me in French to get me interested in learning another language. Both took.


#18

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

We can rename this thread "Tintin memories"!

And make Dave feel bad for not being part of these awesome and touching tintin moments.


#19



Disconnected

Dave said:
I've never gotten the supposed allure of Tintin.
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I am glad you have not been lured by the young boy.


#20

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

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.


#21

@Li3n

@Li3n

Dave said:
I've never gotten the supposed allure of Tintin.
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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?

filmfanatic said:
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.
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As i recall the cartoons where pretty faithful to the comics, and just skipped over some stuff for time.


#22

Timmus

Timmus

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.


#23

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Timmus said:
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.
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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!


#24

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

The professor really is kind of a dick. You tend not to notice because he's mostly deaf and seems totally not clued-in to what's going on around him, but he's such a jerk to the Captain and Tintin sometimes.


#25

Timmus

Timmus

I suppose building a submarine that looks like a shark buys you a lot of good will in the Tintiniverse.

I think I would have just let that fictional soviet state that kidnapped him in the Calculas affair keep him.


#26

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

I've just started reading the comics. It's a shame I haven't read them sooner. I quite enjoy them.


#27

Charlie Don't Surf

The Lovely Boehner

Nothing about that grabs or interests me.

But it's Steven Spielberg.


#28



Philosopher B.

Lots of rad people involved. I can stomach some funky visuals if it's as rad-ass as it should be otherwise.


#29

@Li3n

@Li3n

SpecialKO said:
The professor really is kind of a dick. You tend not to notice because he's mostly deaf and seems totally not clued-in to what's going on around him, but he's such a jerk to the Captain and Tintin sometimes.
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It's called characterization... (also, he's a mad scientist, just not an evil one).


#30

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

Characterization... as a dickish scientist.


#31

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Timmus said:
I suppose building a submarine that looks like a shark buys you a lot of good will in the Tintiniverse.

I think I would have just let that fictional soviet state that kidnapped him in the Calculas affair keep him.
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Don't forget the rocketship he developed.


#32

Timmus

Timmus

That's true he did do that.


#33



Philosopher B.

Calculus seriously needs to stop acting the goat!


#34

filmfanatic

filmfanatic



#35

Timmus

Timmus

Philosopher B. said:
Calculus seriously needs to stop acting the goat!
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Don't say the "G" word! We'll never get him to shut up now.


#36

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

One of my favourite tintin scenes ever XD


#37

Timmus

Timmus

My favorite scene is any scene where the captain gets lit up and PG swears angrily at something/someone....

Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!


#38

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

Timmus said:
My favorite scene is any scene where the captain gets lit up and PG swears angrily at something/someone....

Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!
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Haddock is awesome! I even have the complete list of the insults he uses (in spanish) with their definitions.

But, well, as I have already said, I really love Tintin.
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#39

Wahad

Wahad

Speaking of swears, here is the full list of the captain's swears in English. There's 202 of them.


#40

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Wahad said:
Speaking of swears, here is the full list of the captain's swears in English. There's 202 of them.
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Ten thousand thundering typhoons! What a find!
Anyway, I've become a quick fan now after having read some of the comics. Hopefully, I get some more for my birthday.


#41

Timmus

Timmus

I think in the edition of the crab with the golden claws that I had growing up he calls someone a "negro" in one of his tirades.

Even Captain Haddock is capable of Michael Richards moments.


#42

@Li3n

@Li3n

Dude... Michael Richards is Captain Haddock when he shaves...


#43

Timmus

Timmus

Next time I read a tintin book I'm going to read Haddock's lines in the voice of Michael Richards.


#44

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Just found out that someone has been posting whole episodes of The Adventures of Tintin on YouTube. Here's a few of them.





#45

@Li3n

@Li3n

If you're gonna post Unicorn then you got to post Red Rackham's Treasure too:



And i still don't see how they'll mix Crab with Unicorn without it being forced...


#46

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

I'm still wondering who will play Calculus. They've announced most of the main and side characters, but no word on who's playing Cuthbert Calculus.


#47

filmfanatic

filmfanatic



#48

@Li3n

@Li3n

Ok, so they obviously blended Crab and Unicorn heavily... but it doesn't look that bad...


#49



Philosopher B.

Fuck it, this is going to rule.


#50



Philosopher B.

Although I gotta say, some of those movements were pretty funky, like when Thompson falls down the stairs ... I think I'm gonna be able to stomach the overall look, though. This looks like a lot of fun, plus I love that they actually referenced T-man's profesh.


#51

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

This will totally rape my childhood...

never mind, I never knew he existed until a few years ago.


#52

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

That looks moderately better than the last trailer.

Slightly more hopeful.


#53

Frank

Frankie Williamson

Wow, I'm in. I've gotten over the hideous psuedo people CG and am now totally in.


#54

Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a pretty solid offering... Serious nostalgia action going on over here...


#55



Overflight

Timmus said:
I think in the edition of the crab with the golden claws that I had growing up he calls someone a "negro" in one of his tirades.

Even Captain Haddock is capable of Michael Richards moments.
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If you think THAT'S racist, try tracking down Tintin In The Congo.

Marvel as Tintin acts like a colonialist douchebag and slaughters wildlife by the ton! The guy even kills a RHINO with DYNAMITE for crying out loud!


#56

@Li3n

@Li3n

Here you go: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Tintin-Congo-Herge/9781405220989

And the racism is of the "white man's burden" variety...


#57

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

@Li3n said:
Here you go: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Tintin-Congo-Herge/9781405220989

And the racism is of the "white man's burden" variety...
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I dunno. The whole part with Tintin and the villagers did have a Mighty Whitey feel to it.

But to be honest, Tintin is a product of its time, in both good and evil. Herge even kept making comics during the German occupation, which might explain why - if memory serves - the villain in The Mysterious Island is a big-nosed, thick-lipped American banker named Blumenfeld. I guess he had to do what he could to keep publishing; which also meant he ended up being accused as a collaborator after the war.


#58

Covar

Covar

"Screenplay by Steven Moffat"

sold.


#59

@Li3n

@Li3n

North_Ranger said:
I dunno. The whole part with Tintin and the villagers did have a Mighty Whitey feel to it.
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Google "white man's burden"... coz that's exactly what i said.

It's just that these days when you mention racism ppl tend to think of the KKK types... i was just clarifying...


#60



Overflight

Here's a bunch of pictures from the movie:

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p206397_01.jpg
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p235836_01.jpg
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p814119_01.jpg
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p908558_01.jpg
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p207902_01.jpg
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2011/09/xlarge_p797379_01.jpg

...THIS. LOOKS. FUCKING. TERRIFYING. There's a REASON why not all comics can or should be adapted to live action or realistic CGI: when you have a diverse cast of characters of differing species/styles with one of them being "human", then if you make the humans look human everything else looks alien and weird. Not only have they failed to grasp this but the differing styles in the comic weren't THIS different. Would it be really THAT difficult to make the Thompsons look like real humans? And why is Haddock that distorted?

What's sad about this is you have friggin Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Stephen Moffat working on this thing yet the visual style might cause it all to come crashing down. This might be the last and greatest victim of Zemeckitis.


#61

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

This could just be me, but I don't think it looks that bad. It looks better than the CGI we've gotten in most of the Zemeckis performance-capture films (A Christmas Carol handled it pretty well, but was a little iffy at points). I'm still going to give this a shot.


#62

@Li3n

@Li3n

When FF: Spirits Within came out i was still on dial-up, so it took a while for me to find out that a lot of people though it failed because of the CGI... until then i was sure it had more to do with the fact that it was a SF with fantasy creatures in it instead of a fantasy setting with SF elements like the actual Final Fantasy series... and because half of the run time was spent on what a former member of the forums referred to as japanese metaphysical bullshit (or something close)...

So yeah, i don't mind the caricature like CGI... the BD's used the same type of exaggeration.


#63



Philosopher B.

Not deterred.

Also FF: The Spirits Within totally ruled.


#64

@Li3n

@Li3n

Calculus should sue:



#65

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

By the way, is it just me or does it look like Ivan Sakharine, a kind-of minor character from The Secret of the Unicorn, is being upgraded to a full-on villain for the film?


#66

@Li3n

@Li3n

Looks like it:http://tintinology.poosk.com/2011/09/21/sakharine-is-in-the-secret-of-the-unicorn/

And he's Rackham's descendant too...

Too bad, the Bird Brothers where fine one shot villains. But i guess having to tie in Crab and Red Rackham's Treasure they needed to have only one central villain... would have preferred if they where all working for Rastapopoulos instead, and they just showed him as the shadow leader for this one...


#67

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

@Li3n said:
Looks like it:http://tintinology.poosk.com/2011/09/21/sakharine-is-in-the-secret-of-the-unicorn/

And he's Rackham's descendant too...

Too bad, the Bird Brothers where fine one shot villains. But i guess having to tie in Crab and Red Rackham's Treasure they needed to have only one central villain... would have preferred if they where all working for Rastapopoulos instead, and they just showed him as the shadow leader for this one...
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I was guessing they'd probably have him as part of the Crab with the Golden Claws organization working alongside Allan while both ultimately take orders from Omar Ben Salaad. Still, having him as a major antagonist in this way does help to better combine Crab with the Golden Claws and Secret of the Unicorn together for this film's story.

Have to say, I wasn't expecting them to make him a descendant of Red Rackham. Looking back on the comics, though, there is a bit of a resemblance, enough of one where I can see them running with the idea.


#68

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Looks like someone managed to get their hands on samples of the score for The Adventures of Tintin: http://www.cinemamusica.de/1675/Joh...Struppi-Einhorn-Unicorn-Score-Music-Filmmusik

In general, I like it. It's got a jazzy feel that seems like a fit for Tintin, while at times having an Indiana Jones tone to it.


#69

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

That...mostly sounds pretty good! It matches what I would have thought of as a good music for a Tintin movie.


#70

@Li3n

@Li3n

So i just saw this...

Not bad.

I mean yeah, they pretty much beat the stories together with a hammer and applied superglue until they fit together, but the end result was pretty watchable...

Allan's voice was all wrong though... needed to be more sinister...

SPOILER-ish:

And i would have preferred if they had kept the Bird brothers and had Rackham's descendant in as a 3rd player... they way they ended the film they could have kept him for the sequel, Moriarty style, easy...


#71

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

@Li3n said:
So i just saw this...

Not bad.

I mean yeah, they pretty much beat the stories together with a hammer and applied superglue until they fit together, but the end result was pretty watchable...

Allan's voice was all wrong though... needed to be more sinister...

SPOILER-ish:

And i would have preferred if they had kept the Bird brothers and had Rackham's descendant in as a 3rd player... they way they ended the film they could have kept him for the sequel, Moriarty style, easy...
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Wait, how did you see it already?


#72

@Li3n

@Li3n

The Technodrome's future monitors, of course... don't tell Shredder, he'd just try to use them against the turtles...

Over here they had early screening (or whatever you call it in english) once yesterday and once tonight in about 5 cinemas in town... and i got 2 tickets for the price of one because of a promotion from one of our mobile carriers... didn't known it worked for early screenings.

I assumed y'all had early screenings too...


#73

Frank

Frankie Williamson

No, they assume it will bomb here. All hope is in Europe.


#74

@Li3n

@Li3n

Then i guess i'll go again next week with my friends...

Teh theatre wasn't full, but early screenings cost more, and my friends didn't want to come just because of that... and it was fuller then i expected.

Good thing i first read the comics from my aunt, so i had with who to go... never liked going alone to the cinema, and i really wanted to see it as soon as i could.

Let's hope it does well....

Oh, and i forgot to complain about them changing the treasure from actually being the pirates previous loot to being the Unicorn's secret cargo...


#75

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Thought I'd post this really well-done fan-made intro for The Avdentures of Tintin:



Apparently, it has caught Spielberg's eye and he's hired the guy who made this to work on one of his upcoming features.


#76

@Li3n

@Li3n

Saw that video and it made me want more... i hope Spielberg gets to Seven Crystal Balls and Picaros (though i'd settle for a 0Haddock included Broken Ear).


#77

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

@Li3n said:
Saw that video and it made me want more... i hope Spielberg gets to Seven Crystal Balls and Picaros (though i'd settle for a 0Haddock included Broken Ear).
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Last I heard, the plan for a second film was to base it on Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.


#78

@Li3n

@Li3n

filmfanatic said:
Last I heard, the plan for a second film was to base it on Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.
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Hmmm... the ending kinda implied we'd get Red Rackham's Treasure in some way... and i don't see how they can mix it with Crystal Balls/Prisoners.


#79

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

@Li3n said:
Hmmm... the ending kinda implied we'd get Red Rackham's Treasure in some way... and i don't see how they can mix it with Crystal Balls/Prisoners.
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Like I said, that was last I heard. Could be that Red Rackham's Treasure will be the main focus now instead. I could see going with either potentially, considering there's no Calculus in this current film. I do wonder what else they might pull from for that second film aside from Red Rackham's Treasure.


#80

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

filmfanatic said:
Thought I'd post this really well-done fan-made intro for The Avdentures of Tintin:



Apparently, it has caught Spielberg's eye and he's hired the guy who made this to work on one of his upcoming features.
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Wow, that video was very nice! And it even ended with a reference from the last sketched panel from the last Tintin book Hergé was working in before he died!


#81



Philosopher B.

Goddammit, I'm an American. I'm not supposed to have to wait for stuff. >:-(

:-P

filmfanatic said:
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Woah. That fuckin' rules.


#82

@Li3n

@Li3n

Philosopher B. said:
Goddammit, I'm an American. I'm not supposed to have to wait for stuff. >:-(
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You're thinking of last century...


#83

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

I just got back from seeing Tintin. I was a little bit disappointed, but it was still pretty good. There are a few story flaws and the first portion of the film is a little weak, but once it gets going, it really gets going. There is a chase sequence that has to be seen to be believed.


#84

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Just for back from seeing it, myself. Personally, I dug it quite a bit. It was exactly the kind of globe-trotting fun adventure stuff that I love. I used to watch the cartoon when I was younger and from what I remember, they nailed all the main characters. Plus, the animation is gorgeous. I'd say it's worth seeing in theatres at least once.


#85

Frank

Frankie Williamson

I called this one. Tintin is doing abysmally in North America.


#86



James

filmfanatic said:
Wait, how did you see it already?
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#87

filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Honestly, James, it's not much of an issue anymore. You should be able to find it on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Also, watched it over again and Tintin has become a favorite movie for me since my prior comments.


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