My sister and I grew up in Ohio and loved Tintin.
I remember seeing one Tintin book - one! - in my childhood in NE Ohio. Then I went to high school near Pittsburgh, and there were several Tintin fans there. Still by no means a big following in the U.S., though, from all I’ve read. Maybe this movie will change that.
No. No. Animated Tintin, perfect. Live-action Tintin, acceptable. GGI Tintin . . . just no.
I guess I’m the only one, but I like the look.
As bad as Mars Needs Moms?
I don’t know… this is Peter Jackson we’re talking about. Nobody does better motion capture than him.
There’s been so much discussion in Hollywood and among film buffs about the Uncanny Valley problems with Polar Express, I have to think Jackson and Spielberg will bend over backwards to avoid the same problem here.
I don’t know… look at, for instance, Beowulf. Perfectly good action movie, wonderful actors, naked Angelina Jolie… A really nice work by everyone involved.
And yet the animation was just off putting. It didn’t work.
I’m no hardcore Tintin fan, that said I dont understand how someone that has enjoyed the books could be turned on by the trailer. It looks like Tintin being raped, hardcore style.
I grew up on Tintin (and Asterix). Secret of the Unicorn is one of my favorites, so I’ve been quite nervous that they’ll screw it up, especially with the Uncanny Valley issue.
Has anyone else seen this little"unofficial title sequence" video? I love it, but I don’t know if it’s actually in the movie. Does anyone know?
It’s not, but apparently Spielberg was so impressed he hired them for a different movie.
I’ve always thought Tintin was well known in America. I read all of them as a kid, and they are prominently displayed in the childrens’ section of most libraries I’ve been to.
Tintin has a distinctive British accent in the trailer, is he retconned as being a Brit in the movie?
Nah. It’s just that it was that or have him speak in English with a Belgian accent, which would have been just silly.
Ha ok, with the accent and the complexion that they used for his face, he has a very British feel to him (that said they could have chosen a less pronounced accent if that’s not what they were looking for).
Going to see it tonight. Shall I comment here, or will there be/should I start a new thread?
I used to own at least 20 Tintin books that I got when I was visiting Belgium as a child (I’m in my early 20s now). I’ve been in a lot of book stores in my life and I’ve never seen them anywhere since that trip. Part of me wants to see the film but the other part of me is just assuming they’ve fucked it up. It’s got a lot of nostalgia to compete with and I don’t know if it can meet those high standards.
I read every Tintin book during my childhood, and I have to say they did a good job with the movie. Left you wanting more, just like with the books.
Aside: My wife’s comment - “where are the female characters, besides that obnoxious opera singer?” Me: Umm, well, you see this is a story about a friendship between a dashing young man and older, hard-drinking, sea captain. Women need not apply.
Yeah, there are almost no women in Tintin comics–there’s the terrifying opera singer, and a couple of anonymous landladies, and…um…well, anyway, accept it as part of the Tintin universe, or forget about Tintin entirely.
I’m glad to see a positive review. I’ll take the kids to see it if it’s not horrible.
The comics were translated into English, and there the fiction was made that Tintin was living at 26 Labrador Road and that Captain Haddock would live in Marlinspike Hall.This was continued in the movie, with Tintin’s British English, and the Thom(p)son’s reference to Scotland Yard. But the visuals remained true to the comic, with Citroen cars driving on the right and Belgian/French architecture for instance.
Nestor’s butler’s yellow striped uniform does not seen British but I don’t know if it’s French/Belgian.