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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN |OT| (dir. Steven Spielberg) MIND YOUR SPOILERS EUROPE!

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Discotheque

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I'm fine with the look of everyone in this film EXCEPT Tintin. He looks like a soulless demon, they really dropped the ball on him, especially when characters like Haddock and the Thompsons look like a fine mix between cartoony and real.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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Discotheque said:
I'm fine with the look of everyone in this film EXCEPT Tintin. He looks like a soulless demon, they really dropped the ball on him, especially when characters like Haddock and the Thompsons look like a fine mix between cartoony and real.
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imo the latest trailers prove otherwise. The beginning of this trailer when they say his name looks pretty great.
 
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TedNindo

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Is it just me or does Tin Tin look too young?

I don't know who here has read the comics but as a Belgian I read most of them as a kid or watched the cartoons.
And it looks off imo.
 
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Expendable.

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In Contention Review: Fun, frisky 'Tintin' pages Indiana Jones

You'd have been forgiven for thinking that Steven Spielberg had lost his fun gene after he last gifted our cinema screens, a distant-seeming three years ago, with the dismal "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": a soulless, haphazardly crafted piece of directorial brand-whoring, in which Harrison Ford's eyes appeared deader than those of any mo-cap mannequin.

Tardily reviving a beloved franchise that already seemed to have reached generational closure in its third instalment was always a dubious move -- but it acquires full-blown redundancy with the arrival of "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn," a springy, souped-up entertainment whose ample boy's-own pleasures hew far closer to the original Indiana Jones template than that dim 2008 sequel.

Of course, the Tintin-Indy parallel is neither original nor accidental: Spielberg was allegedly first drawn to Belgian author-artist Hergé’s classic boy-adventurer comics 30 years ago, after some critics made the comparison in reviews of “Raiders of the Los Ark”; he’s held the film rights to the series, on and off, since 1983, himself visualising the films as “Indiana Jones for kids.”
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Full B-grade review at the link.
 
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Platy

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That last part of the quoted variety review had a spoiler i didn't wanted to read =|

TedNindo said:
Is it just me or does Tin Tin look too young?

I don't know who here has read the comics but as a Belgian I read most of them as a kid or watched the cartoons.
And it looks off imo.
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Lets wikipedia explain this

Wikipedia said:
Tintin's age is never accurately revealed. Other characters treat him as a worldly young adult, as shown by the absence of concerns like parents or school, as well as by his wide solo travels all over the globe. He's old enough to enter a pub and drink a beer (The Black Island) and old enough to live alone with his dog in his own apartment. However, He is still referred to as a "young boy", and a "puppy" in Crab with the Golden Claws. A 1979 television interview with Hergé settled the matter, when Hergé stated that when he first thought about Tintin he was 14 or 15 years old, "but now, let's say that he is 17."[5] In one shot in the television series episode The Secret of the Unicorn, Tintin's passport states his birth year as 1929 (the year of his print debut[6]).
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and on a little offtopic .... Hergé has the same birthday (except year, of course) than me =D
 
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Lord British

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Yet while the big set pieces are often exuberantly handled, the human details are sorely wanting. How curious that Hergé achieved more expression with his use of ink-spot eyes and humble line drawings than a bank of computers and an army of animators were able to achieve. On this evidence, the film's pioneering "performance capture" technique is still too crude and unrefined. In capturing the butterfly, it kills it too. What emerges is an array of characters (puffy, moribund Haddock; opaque, inexpressive Tintin) that may as well be pinned on to boards and protected by glass.

Viewed from a distance, The Adventures of Tintin stands proud as freewheeling, high-spirited entertainment. But those close-ups are painful, a twist of the knife. There on the screen we see Hergé's old and cherished protagonists, raised like Lazarus and made to scamper anew. But the spark is gone, their eyes are dusty, and watching their antics is like partying with ghosts. Turn away; don't meet their gaze. When we stare into the void, the void stares back at us.
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God, I hate that Guardian Media writing style.

Really looking forward to this. Will see it day one, while I'm on holiday. Is the new trailer spoiler-iffic?
 
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Salazar

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Stupacabra said:
God, I hate that Guardian Media writing style.
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It is pompous dribble, and it's not remotely helpful as critical prose. I don't believe they know what moribund and inexpressive actually mean, as distinct from how clever they sound and look. And "crude" and "unrefined" are so synonymous that anybody who uses both close to each other in a sentence has either no editor or a monkey for an editor.
 
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Salazar

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Mr. Sam said:
I think you know what inexpressive means.
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I see adequate expression in Tintin's face in the trailers to believe that someone calling it "inexpressive" is labouring a glib point. There is not "more expression" in a drawing than in a film; there is, or might be, more charisma, more style, more poignancy, and so on.

Thinking that cinema can directly compete with the way the imagination plays over a deft comic is the reviewer's mistake, not Spielberg's.
 
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jett

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After all the many trailers that have been released for the movie I've concluded that I don't like the motion capture process for animated movies. The animation just looks really strange. It's unfair to compare since I haven't seen the movie yet but at this point Tangled is totally creaming this movie from a visual standpoint.

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snowy is what i'd call "inexpressive."
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It's a dog in a photorealistic CG movie. Dem's the breaks. :/
 
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Veidt

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Scullibundo said:
Aaaand apple just released the new trailer in QUICKTIME!
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Need direct 1080p link.
Tried downloading with useragent switcher. Shit wasn't working.
GAF. please give me a direct link that doesn't need this useragent shit.
 
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GCX

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jett said:
After all the many trailers that have been released for the movie I've concluded that I don't like the motion capture process for animated movies. The animation just looks really strange. It's unfair to compare since I haven't seen the movie yet but at this point Tangled is totally creaming this movie from a visual standpoint.
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Animation and motion capture are two vastly different forms of movie making. Traditional animation is all about squash and stretch while motion capture offers a more 'realistic' (and in some ways a bit more limited) method. I think they can co-exist just fine and Tintin is looking pretty damn good.
 
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watkinzez

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whatsinaname said:
Damn, this looks good.

So does the movie include 'Red Rackham's Treasure' or is that going to be in a separate movie?
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Nope. Unicorn and Crab only.
They'll probably find the treasure in the same place though.
 
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Souldriver

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I'm sure the OST will fit great in the movie to create a certain atmosphere. But from all the tracks and segments I have heard, none of them are actually nice stand-alone tracks.

So a sincere fuck you to all the John Williams fans who tried to silence us fans of the animated show intro, claiming we were in for something far more epic and awesome "because it's John Williams". You were wrong. I can only imagine what goosebumps inducing music we would've gotten if Williams had redone/re-imagined the animated series leitmotiv.


*flips over table*
 
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WillyFive

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The real judgement of the score will be on the movie. The Star Wars prequel and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sounded like nothing before you saw the movie, but afterwards you realize how great it is. The scene where the UFO rises from the ruins of South America from KotCS is good example.
 
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jett

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Seems like the soundtrack completely and totally lacks an iconic theme, it's just moody, all over the place stuff. I guess it'll work within the movie but it's not something I'd ever want to listen outside of it. It's just boring.

Souldriver said:
I'm sure the OST will fit great in the movie to create a certain atmosphere. But from all the tracks and segments I have heard, none of them are actually nice stand-alone tracks.

So a sincere fuck you to all the John Williams fans who tried to silence us fans of the animated show intro, claiming we were in for something far more epic and awesome "because it's John Williams". You were wrong. I can only imagine what goosebumps inducing music we would've gotten if Williams had redone/re-imagined the animated series leitmotiv.


*flips over table*
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Souldriver

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Willy105 said:
The real judgement of the score will be on the movie. The Star Wars prequel and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sounded like nothing before you saw the movie, but afterwards you realize how great it is. The scene where the UFO rises from the ruins of South America from KotCS is good example.
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There's a distinct difference between "great music in the movie" and "great music on it's own".

There are soundtracks that are absolutely brilliant for atmosphere in the movie, but are mediocre (or even horrible) outside of it. The Underworld tracks for the movie Sunshine are the most obvious example I can think of. The noise/distortion is nerve wrecking in the movie itself, but there's no fucking way I could listen to that stuff with headphones on it's own.

This movie seems to be somewhere in the middle. Probably works great in the movie itself, and isn't bad to listen to on its own. But there seem to be no spectacular tracks on it either. Nothing iconic or epic. It sounds like an OST I'd never listen to on itself. While I could listen to the tintin animated series intro all day long. All my personal opinion off course.
 
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