The one with Tintin losing hope even for a minute, followed by Haddock's motivational speech. Others may whine and grind about how that's "so not the books", but I applaud ANY attempt to make Tintin human without sacrificing much of his canon personality. Not to mention that it made Haddock look even more awesome.
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.Th Oner shot in Bhaggar blew my mind. There is no way to achieve that in live-action film. 2D animation would have murdered the animators. CG is the only way to get it.
Outside of what was mentioned...
Paraphrasing here, but...
"We have one bullet."
"And the good news?"
"We have one bullet."
Followed by a cheeky shot of Tintin's hair while he was swimming to the plane (but thank you, movie makers, for not throwing in the Jaws theme to overkill it).
"A man's been shot on the doorstep." "Again?"
I'd also like to mention that Tintin's voice was absolutely perfect. I mean, Jamie Bell doesn't really look like Tintin, but his voice was exactly what I imagined coming out of Tintin's mouth (baring in mind that Tintin is really Belgian, not English, but as it's a translation anyway...).
I'm also impressed how he managed to make the phrase "Great snakes!" sound not-silly.
Must have been very tempting, as Spielberg and Williams both worked on Jaws. This is also the second time Spielberg's referenced his own film (the first was 1941, and that time he did use the Jaws theme.
edited 28th Dec '11 7:45:53 AM by RLNice
A fistful of me.It looks like the film is starting to find an audience: it tied The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on Tuesday (which had been beating Tintin handily since Wednesday).
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/This is basically an argument why Chipmunks should get attention more than Tintin.
Am I the only one who gets tired of this?
edited 28th Dec '11 11:06:38 PM by ladycoffee
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.Meh. Morons are entitled to have their moronic opinions. [[/moronic opinion]]
It's a fact of life that there's always someone who will defend something. It's what makes humanity what it is. And thank god for it, I wouldn't want to live on a planet filled with everyone thinking like I do.
Just means one needs to learn to shrug when reading something such as this.
There's a different opinion, and there's an obvious bash-fest thinly disguised in intelligent-sounding discourse. I have no problem with the former; it's the latter that I have a problem with.
Back on topic: We still have Latin America, so any talk about the latest box-office isn't final.
edited 29th Dec '11 2:44:16 AM by ladycoffee
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.The one thing I didn't like was the whole "villain-upgrade" for Sakharine,when he had practically no presence in the comics.
Nor I did I like that "inspirational speech",which felt Out of Character and kinda Tastes Like Diabetes
Everything was pure gold. Especially the pickpocket scene,made even funnier if you recognize the voice. I also couldn't help but clap at the genius plan of having Castafiore break the glass to steal the third ship
Have to admit I always pictured Haddock to sound like John Rhys-Davies,but Serkis really changed that,I don't think I can unhear it anymore.
Hmm....Maybe I only liked the "inspirational speech" bit because I've been exposed to way too much Tastes Like Dirt media that I'm forced to watch these past days.
Just saw it (on IMAX). This is a very worthy successor to the Indiana Jones films. And Snowy is one cute little sidekick.
And yes, this movie would have never worked in live-action. Especially with all of the things that Snowy does in the film.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/I just saw it. And hell if it wasn't some of the most fun I've ever had in a movie theater. I don't know anything about the comics, but it was just a really good rollicking adventure film. At first I was a bit skeptical about the mo-cap, but I got so into the movie that I forgot about it. The 3D I'm not so sure really added all that much to it, but at least it didn't make my eyes water or give me a headache, so the technology has improved that much, at least. Oh, and John Williams did a good job with the score, even though it did kinda feel like he was phoning it in.
So, yeah. Nothing more than a lot of fun, but that's damn well all it needed to be. International mystery and improbable action set-pieces ahoy! Oh, and pirates. Every good adventure story needs some pirates.
edited 31st Dec '11 4:07:37 PM by Sporkaganza
Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.In reference to the Alvin>Tintin bit above my real sticking points were #9 (building a world from the ground up takes less effort than superimposing CG characters into the real world convincingly?), #5 (character demographics are major indicators of quality?) #4 (so apparently anything cartoony is inherently inferior to shooting "realistically"), and #1 (MO-CAP IS CRAP WE GET IT.) Besides that is seems to mostly just be differences in opinion.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Yeah, there's no damn way the Chipmunks movie is better than what I just saw.
As for the film not doing too fantastically well in the US, I don't think that's really about Americans having no taste or anything, but just that most people in the US just don't really know much or care much about Tintin. This film is aimed at European audiences anyhow, and it's the success or failure over there that makes or breaks the movie/series/whatever. So yeah, I hope the next one comes out soon.
Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.I read that they want to release a sequel either in 2014 or 2015. They haven't decided which story to adapt yet, but they're looking at The Calculus Affair.
Looking for some stories?Okay, officially leaving the thread until I've seen the film.
Fresh-eyed movie blogIf it's aimed solely for the European audiences, I doubt that certain modifications in the film would be made. Like that inspirational speech, for example. It's very much American.
It's not about Americans having no taste, but they're not caring much about Tintin. That's exactly why I said that they're having an insular attitude, the same attitude that they have for soccer.
edited 1st Jan '12 2:24:54 AM by ladycoffee
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I don't think anyone else's favorite scenes would deviate much from those already named.
Also- 100 posts! Oh wait...
A fistful of me.