The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin Wins Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globes

Just watched it. It was marvelous. Pure fun in both dialogue and action. Nicely balanced, the story set up the action and the action set up the story, as it should be.
And what an action! Unbelievable in both content and the way camera moves around (literally unbelievable, fighting with cape on fire is one thing, but everything else in the flashbacks? I try to be careful with spoilers, because it has to be seen).
It is as light-hearted as the comics from that period, but the most important thing - Haddock's drinking - hasn't been changed, it is a part of his persona and a plot point.
3D still makes things blurry, and I'm actually believing it's because of 24fps. So Jackson, prove that 48fps makes it better.
Deserves an Oscar.

 

I can remember Foyle's War being semi-decent when it started. Haven't watched it for years though, and it might just have been that Michael Kitchen is a superb actor.

I hated Stormbreaker (the novel, and didn't bother with the film), but Horowitz's Diamond brothers books were hilarious, and certainly have a tone to them that would fit in with Herge's characters nicely. I think Wright, Moffat and Cornish did a fine job for the first one (although powering the aeroplane with a belch was a bit too much).

 

I didn't know the graphic novels well when I was young but my boys have grown up with them. I'm excited about seeing it with the family.

 

Kitchen's genius and the beautiful production design are what made the series. The scripts were okay, but not great. I remember enjoying the show immensely back when it first started and haven't thought of it in years; thanks for the reminder. I'll have to go hunt up the DVDs now. Great comfort food television.

 

Funny you all mention Foyle's War - my mother has just informed me she's got the DVDs for the latest season (which takes place post-WW2) and I'm hoping to check them out.

I like the series a lot - it's a nice change of pace to all the ultra-modern cop/investigation shows that dominate these days.

 

I did enjoy the movie, although it was essentially Indiana Jones with different characters in it. The first half of the film was better than the second, it went really overboard with major action scenes and whatnot towards the end.

It has been many years since I read any of the books or saw the TV show, but I don't recall Tintin ever using guns or fighting people. Spielberg seems to have turned him into some sort of action hero, which is not really what the character is about.

 

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Tintin uses guns in more adventures than he doesn't, and is always fighting someone. Many of Herge's books are loaded with action.

 

Oh, yeah, Tintin was always shooting at somebody. I remember this extended gun battle in The Seven Crystal Balls and he has a rifle practically the whole time in Prisoners of the Sun.

 

He definitely fought and used guns throughout his adventures. What really bothered me from this movie were two things:
Tintin saying "bad news is I only have one bullet left, the good news is I only have one bullet left" that's a line I would expect from an Hollywood action hero not Tintin. The second thing is Haddock getting hit by lightning and burping into the gas tank, slaspstick humour gone too far it was so painful to watch I had to look away.

Still I really enjoyed the movie but for me the best element were the mythology gags, the references to other Tintin stories.

 

John Williams has made some interesting musical choices for his score for Tin Tin.

Tin Tin score Track 1

The movie's now made 207 million dollars overseas. We'll see how it survives the Twilight onslaught.

 

I liked Williams' score, but as predicted, the Nelvana theme is still the Tintin theme to me.

 

Tin Tin is now up to 230 million dollars in ticket sales overseas. It made 25 million in England alone.

A lot of the overseas territories are slow to report their updates, so that figure will grow somewhat.

It hasn't opened in China, Mexico or Peru and it's run in Japan has only just started.

It opens in the U.S. on December 21st.

 

Yeah, interesting. The main theme is very reminiscent of the main theme from Catch Me if You Can, as played by the Star Wars Cantina band, while Tintin's Theme is very reminiscent of Indy.

 

Tintin isn't doing well in the US box office (what a surprise) has any US member here seen the movie yet?

 

It isn't doing well? It's only been out one day. Give it some time.

Besides, it's already made 240 million dollars overseas.

 

I haven't been yet. I'm going this weekend sometime; probably Monday as I'm going to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tomorrow.

 

**** you, Americans, for not being interested in Tintin. And I'm not just talking about the film.

People will slobber over Transformers and pay premium price, but they're not interested in a great comic series that has been adapted in an inventive, high-spirited method by a master filmmaker. Bah, says I.

Same goes for Hugo bombing. Disgrace.

 

Man, I've read the **** out of Tintin. I loved those comics when I was growing up. I'll be watching the hell out of this movie when it's out on DVD.

Quit your stereotyping.

Oh, and for the record, I've never spent a cent on anything Transformers related.

 

I'm a Canadian. I never read them growing up; but I have read every one of them now.

 

People who are exceptions to the rule are by default awesome, of course.

But the box office doesn't lie.

 

It's disappointing, to be sure. I'm wondering just how many people are put off by the surface similarities to The Polar Express. Never mind that it's a fair cry from that uncanny valley nightmare.

 

Tin Tin will do just fine, it's box office performance increased 45% from Thursday to Friday. The weekdays leading up to Christmas are usually pretty tepid for box office because people are very busy shopping and traveling and preparing for the big day. I think the Christmas weekend, particularly Sunday will mean good things for Tin Tin. And next week should be good. Overall it's gotten excellent reviews. I think by the time it's all over, Tin Tin will make about 90 to 100 million dollars in America.

It finished in the top 5 on Friday, it was in 5th place, right behind Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

I don't think Spielberg or Jackson ever expected that Tin Tin would do great in America, which is why they started opening it overseas in October.

World-wide it needs to make about 400 million to break even and it's easily going to reach that mark.

 

Saw it today, really enjoyed it. The relationship between Tintin and the Captain was well developed and the action sequences were very engaging. My favourite part though, was all the little easter eggs and callbacks to other parts of the series - such as the characitures, the news articles and other items (Such as the golden crab in Salaad's mansion). Would love to see a sequal.