The Adventures of Tintin

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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!
 
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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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.
 
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.
 
@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...
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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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!
 
North_Ranger

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@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.
 
@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...
 
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Here's a bunch of pictures from the movie:

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...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.
 
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.
 
@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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
@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...
 
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