I think the word they're looking for is "pastiche" perhaps? The only real difference between Fanfiction and official installments is if they've got permission to publish or not.
Nick Meyer's The Seven Per Cent Solution and his other two Sherlock Holmes books could be considered fanfiction (SPCS is a Holmes/Freud teamup, the third book is an unashamed "Holmes displaces the protagonist in Phantom of the Opera"), but he got legal permission to publish them, so they may not be Holmes canon, but they're not really fanfiction.
Fresh-eyed movie blogFor certain people(myself included), anything that's not from the original author is considered fanfiction; and being licensed has no bearing on it.
But that doesn't change the fact that I still think the fanfiction allegations are weird, since it IS based on the books, after all.
edited 25th Dec '11 8:16:49 PM by ladycoffee
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Anyway, back to the thread topic. I might be seeing the movie tomorrow. Might. I'm hopeful, and I want it to do well in the US. Does anyone else think it'll start doing better?
edited 26th Dec '11 3:58:41 PM by Madrugada
Looking for some stories?I'm hoping it will, there was a good sized audience when I saw it tonight at an hour that most people would be eating Christmas Dinner. They brought their kids too.
As for me, I've got a passing knowledge of Tintin, so I had to judge the movie purely on its enjoyment on its own. I haven't had so much pure fun at the movies all year. I'll definitely try and talk it up.
War Horse's opening day managed to triple Tintin's opening day.
So it looks like we know which Spielberg films American audiences really wanted to see (but then again, Spielberg was involved with the distribution on that one and it was marketed better, such as having trailers attached to The Help and Real Steel). Also, Richard Curtis (who co-wrote the film) seems to be a safer bet in the US than Peter Jackson.
edited 25th Dec '11 9:51:08 PM by Buscemi
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War Horse also wasn't released on a Wednesday. Anyone know what the weekend numbers for Tintin are?
The three-day was $9 million with a $17 million total gross. The Monday take is expected to be $5 million.
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I really hope they screw the US box office and make a sequel anyhow.
edited 26th Dec '11 4:00:14 PM by Madrugada
That's just depressing.
I just realized: Even if this was made live-action instead of mo-cap, I doubted that it would change the whole situation. Apparently, Tintin is on its way of being the comic world's soccer: never given a *bleep* by insular American audiences.
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.Allow me to get us back on topic.
So I finally got to see it. Despite not having read any of the comics, I thought it was great. Haddock and Snowy were my favorite characters. All the Thomson and Thompson scenes were hilarious. The actions sequences were....wow. I'm sorry, mo-cap haters, but those simply could not have been pulled off in live action.
Looking for some stories?I saw it today and I loved it. I first heard about it when someone posted that previous thread about the movie and I honestly couldn't see the Uncanny Valley that they were worried about.
Here's hoping for another along the line.
Honestly, the only thing I got is that Tintin doesn't look as cartoonish as everyone else does. But there's no choice, that's how Hergé drew him.
BTW, loved the Hergé "cameo".
Went to see it today in Montreal in French (second viewing). Movie was packed. All showings in the theater sold out.
edited 27th Dec '11 4:08:16 PM by Ghilz
(shrugs)
So what scenes did everyone like? My favorites were...
- The Thomson/Thompson scene at the pickpocket's house. Unbelievable.
- The second half of the pirate story, specifically the way it flips back and forth between the fight and Haddock acting it out at the camp. Great transitions there.
- The chase through Bagghar. Best action sequence I'd seen in a long time, and that was before I realized it was a freaking oner.
The whole flashback to Rackham and Sir Haddock was great. A better fight than any of the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies ever gave.
The Hergé cameo.
The chase in Bagghar
edited 27th Dec '11 6:37:39 PM by Ghilz

Well, in the sense that the directors are obviously fans of the material and are putting their own spin on the material...kind of? You could say the same thing about Jason Segel and The Muppets, I suppose. (Good movie, BTW)
Then again, it's not like they're creating new stories out of whole cloth using the same characters. It's still obviously based on the original comics, with some creative license involved.
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