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trixster
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 The Adventures of Tintin The Adventures of Tintin Quote: The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) is a 2011 American performance capture 3D film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé (Georges Remi). Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the film is based on three of the original comic books: The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943), and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). It is also the first animated film Spielberg has directed.
Spielberg first acquired rights to produce a film based upon the Adventures of Tintin series following Hergé's death in 1983, and re-optioned them in 2002. Filming was due to begin in October 2008 for a 2010 release, but release was delayed to 2011 after Universal opted out of producing the film with Paramount, who provided $30 million on pre-production. Sony chose to co-produce the films. The delay resulted in Thomas Sangster, who had been cast as Tintin, departing from the project. Producer Peter Jackson, whose company Weta Digital is providing the computer animation, intends to direct a sequel. Spielberg and Jackson also hope to co-direct a third film.
The first press-screening was held on October 10, 2011 and the world première took place on October 22, 2011 in Brussels. The film was released in North American theaters on December 21, 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX. It was released in Australia on 26 December, 2011.
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Riggs
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin This ist pretty much an animated Indiana Jones movie with a much weaker hero and a less interesting story. The animation is beautiful and spectacular and despite having non stop action and adventure I was bored at times. Probably because I didn't cared for any of the characters. The action was fun and spectacular at times, especially a chase near the end wich is just breathtaking. Overall it was fun but could have benefited a lot from a better title character. B-
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Some actual dramatic stakes would have been nice, but it's shiny, has good set pieces, and gets the tone of the books right. It's fun.
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Also, if you see this in 3D, you hate movies as well as yourself. I let Scorsese's crafty use of the medium trick me into thinking maybe 3D wasn't completely useless, so I gave Spielberg a shot, but I'm over it. I kept taking the glasses off, it looked better. Pathetic. If any of these images were even in 3D, you could never tell to look at it. Never again.
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David
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Thanks for the heads up. I was torn between seeing it in 2-D and 3-D.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin I saw it in 3D and it didn't bother me.
Mostly I was bothered by how boring and one dimensional the Tintin character was, but the adventure continued on and kept me distracted. Good Spielberg stuff in the Indiana Jones tradition. I'll bet it would have done better as a live action movie, though, although you'd miss some of those great effects (There's this one chase scene that goes on for ten minutes or so in one long scene with no cuts that would be really next-to-impossible in live action).
A solid B.
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David
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin _________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Johnny Dollar wrote: Also, if you see this in 3D, you hate movies as well as yourself. I let Scorsese's crafty use of the medium trick me into thinking maybe 3D wasn't completely useless, so I gave Spielberg a shot, but I'm over it. I kept taking the glasses off, it looked better. Pathetic. If any of these images were even in 3D, you could never tell to look at it. Never again. David wrote: Thanks for the heads up. I was torn between seeing it in 2-D and 3-D. So you saw it in 3D anyway?! That was stupid. You got what you deserved.
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David
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin It was a problem with the times. I ended up having to see it in 3-D. It was out of my hands.  _________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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MovieDude
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin I didn't mind the 3D, but even on the nicest screen in Portland it didn't add much. Motion capture is the star as much as anything, as the digital fluidity allows for the camera to swoop through action scenes in a way that's really never been done before. The six-minute long single take chase scene and the pirate ship battle are absolutely incredible set pieces, but the whole film is filled with trippy transitions and visual gags. Not all these jokes work, but the film is so persistently charming that by the end you'll either be won over, or exhausted.
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Groucho
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin The more I think about it, the thing that really bothers me is the combination of realism with those ridiculous comic big noses. Either it should have tried to be completely realistic or much more comic.
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trixster
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin It's light as a feather but loads of fun, and truly captures the feeling of the books/cartoons - including the fact that Tintin is actually quite a terrible detective, and Snowy really does most of the work. Regardless, it looks great, with some terrific action sequences and clever, if somewhat gimmicky, direction; Serkis is also fantastic, as usual. It's clearly designed for kids, and as the first part in a series, but for what it is, it works.
Oh, and I had to drive 20 minutes out of the city just to find a theatre that was playing this in 2D. What a gyp.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Groucho wrote: The more I think about it, the thing that really bothers me is the combination of realism with those ridiculous comic big noses. Either it should have tried to be completely realistic or much more comic. I don't think it attempts to be realistic at all. The mo-cap animation really isn't that lifelike. _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin trixster wrote: Groucho wrote: The more I think about it, the thing that really bothers me is the combination of realism with those ridiculous comic big noses. Either it should have tried to be completely realistic or much more comic. I don't think it attempts to be realistic at all. The mo-cap animation really isn't that lifelike. I kinda side with Mike V. here. In some scenes it really does seem like they are going for realism and all (blood from gunshot wounds), in others in still has a silly comic book feel. It's very uneven in that regard. And damn, Tintin is such a bland BLAND character. It IS a whole lot of fun, though. Good score too. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Tintin is bland in the books as well.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin trixster wrote: Tintin is bland in the books as well. So I've been told. Still it doesn't help the enjoyment (I assume I'd criticize the same aspect with the books). _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin The characters, yes, look kinda cartoony (which is smart, because nobody believes Mo-Cap), but everything else looks very real. It's a effective combination.
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David
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin The characters have a total Star Wars dynamic. Tintin is Luke, the bland hero on which you can project yourself. And Captain Haddock is the charismatic, flawed, colorful, roguish side-hero, Han Solo style.
Plays just fine, IMO.
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin I want my sequel. I hope they don't let North America scare them off. Not a blockbuster but it's actually doing better than I thought it would over here.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin It'd be an interesting situation: an American-financed big-budget franchise primarily made for overseas audiences.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Money is money. If they're making a decent return on the first one, why wouldn't they make a sequel?
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Spielberg and Jackson are made of money. There'll be a sequel.
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin It better have more Thompson & Thomson though!
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David
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin Plus Tintin 2 gives Jackson the chance to stay in nerd-friendly franchise-land and not venture into scary Lovely Bones territory again. I honestly do get the feeling he's become one with sweeping cinematography and thousands of effects shots. Partly as a crutch, partly because the sheer enormity of The Lord of the Rings simply changed him. The director of Heavenly Creatures isn't quite there anymore. The Lovely Bones is underrated, but it did have a bit of a weird vibe where Jackson read "human story of grief with flashes of fantasy" and interpreted it as "AWESOME EFFECTS with a human drama and grief." _________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Re: The Adventures of Tintin I didn't fancy this. Mocap, done with the slick expensive efforts here, is all well and good but the film was really blah to me. I understand it's based on a comic book, but the hyper-preposterous, overtly childish tone and plot and actions were much less than I expected from Spielberg. It's kind of cute for a bit, but every plot point is painfully simplistic and predictable and even conventional. A movie of this prestige should have more going on than this does. The Thompson & Thompson homage role was neat too and I could have used more of them, but I thought they were too stupid, just a tad.
This simply had little fresh or inventive to offer, even the visuals which were charming and pretty but still drew a foggy line between animation and reality, as did the rest of the film, that occasionally reminded me of Veggie tales to be honest. The pirate scene just did not work at all for me. But other parts were admittedly beautiful if ultimately unremarkable.
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