They also act as if Robert Zemeckis has never made a good movie. Back To The Future, anyone?
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Yeah well for every Back To The Future,you have the sequels AND The Polar Express
I like part 2 and 3
To quote the other wiki on Tin Tin
The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in more than 80 languages and more than 350 million copies of the books sold to date.
This will sell MASSIVELY overseas
edited 13th Aug '11 11:28:19 AM by Ghilz
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But what about Used Cars, Romancing The Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away and Beowulf?
Wait, there's really another Alvin And The Chipmunks movie on the way? Eeee-yewwww.
I prefer the Back to the Future sequels to the original.
Before he hit it with BTTF, originally a flop but now a cult hit, his other big success, barely heard of it, his other other big hit, can't comment on it, thought people liked Cast Away, and I don't understand why people hated the mocap since I didn't realize it was mocap until I was told.
Fresh-eyed movie blogRay Winstone even admired the mo-cap, as it made him look twenty years younger and very fit.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Okay fine and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Beowulf wasn't very good at all
But that's still no Tim Burton or Sam Raimi or save one downer Zack Snyder.
Now back on topic,I myself actually pictured Thompson and Thomson sounding like that,Tin Tin.....not so much
Burton's Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland are worse than Contact. Contact was boring but Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland were complete disgraces to the source material.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Oh yes. Who can match the timeless classics like Charlie and the chocolate factory, The Planet of the Apes (2001), Alice in Wonderland or Spider Man 3 AKA The-Sequel-That-Is-So-Bad-We-Are-Rebooting-A-Less-Than-10-year-old-franchise
edited 13th Aug '11 9:14:32 PM by Ghilz
To be fair, most of the problems with Spider-Man 3 can be traced to Executive Meddling.
For the record, I liked Burton's Chocolate Factory better than the original movie.
edited 13th Aug '11 9:20:45 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
To be honest, I have to ask how much of Alice In Wonderland was Tim Burton. Most of my problems with it were also present in Disney's adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia.
I don't know what to make of this poster
◊. It's got the so-called "floating heads", and I'm aware that their features are a potential YMMV brick; but it does give the viewer a clearer picture of what to expect in the film.
And this one.
◊ Just...LOL.
Thoughts about the trailer: although I am yet to see the movie, I kinda liked the way they presented Haddock in his (apparently) first few seconds as someone capable of handing anyone's asses down to them; compared to the sorry drunken mess that he was in his first appearance in the original comics. Although I wager that they still retained some of his alcoholism when I saw the bottle on his table.
edited 17th Aug '11 8:22:32 AM by ladycoffee
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.He's Haddock. He must be soused, and half of his swears must be incomprehensible. If not, you'd best tie him up and ask what he did with the real Haddock.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Nerdrage alert. Better get the extinguisher.
But like I said, better wait for the movie than judge it hastily. Besides, there's also a BIG chance that they retained the drunkard aspect of Haddock; that would BE the only explanation on why he lit a campfire in a boat.
edited 17th Aug '11 9:51:15 AM by ladycoffee
WARNING: This troper is a severe monomaniac. Caution is advised.The first poster I like. It could do without Thomson and Thompson, but Haddock looks okay. The second poster is quite funny, but looks fan-made.
My thoughts on the trailer: Even while keeping in mind to Never Trust a Trailer, I think it looks good. The mo-cap is not creepy, and all the voices sound okay. My only gripe is that I think the trailer makes it look like a kid-friendly Indiana Jones, although you could say that's to be expected.
Looking for some stories?Wow. You know, I read pretty much all the Tintin comics as a kid and loved them, and I tend to judge movie adaptations harshly, but I'm actually hopeful that they won't screw this one up (too badly). By the way, I'm American, and I remember a lot of guys walking around with Tintin comics in 4th and 5th grade. It's not exactly unknown here.
Fucking Tintin dominated my early childhood. Then I got all of the books as a gift. Then I find out about this movie.
AWE. SOME.
The motion capture isn't bad, certainly better than Polar Express. And as for Haddock sounding like a drunk? Movie's based on the stories which introduced him where he was a drunkard. That's why he tried to light a fire in a boat.
Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
I was under the impression that there were complaints about him NOT being a drunkard in the movie.
Maybe this will give a good overview of what to expect
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edited 21st Aug '11 8:41:00 AM by ladycoffee
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Oh, I thought there was compaints that Haddock was acting more drunk than he should, when the continuity of Tintin the movie is going though is that he was still a drunkard.
Okay. So, this thing is based on one of my favorite comics of all time, cast some of my all-time favorite actors, has one of my favorite writers and a director I've idolized since childhood attached, and has great, lifelike animation while still retaining the classic Herge look. I just have one complaint.
Why the hell did they saddle this movie with the horribly emasculating subtitle of Secret of the Unicorn, especially when something as awesome as The Crab with the Golden Claws was also an option?
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

Unfortunately, our local distributors tend to be too well, uninformed, about certain shows that they won't even give it the light of the day. I mean, only the 90s kids here like me knows Tintin. The only hope that I have is the Spielberg and Jackson label that will hopefully get their attention.
Just read the comments on Cartoonbrew on the trailer. Wow, snottiness and Small Name, Big Ego extravaganza.
edited 13th Aug '11 8:56:55 AM by ladycoffee
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