Toon Zone Talkback - The Official "Tintin" Movie News Thread

And it's Monday, so it's now up

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Anddddd we get more creepy, uncanny valley CG! :sweat:

There's 2 more pictures in the article. Captain Haddock really looks rather grizzled.

Story details are also available and it seems like there will be more details available when the magazine comes out later this week.
 
Agh what!

...O.K., I'm trying not to overreact here, but those are everything I was hoping they wouldn't be. This is effecting me more then the visuals of Polar Express or Christmas Carol did, because I know what these characters are supposed to look like. This reminds me of those ultra-realistic cartoon characters Pixeloo made... except they're official. :shrug:
 
Nightmares of Captain Haddock. I have them.

Like most CGI, I'd have to see it in motion before making a call . . . but, holy cow, Haddock is horrifying. Maybe there taking his alcoholism to a whole new, dark level?
 
The Captain Haddock pic is based on a scene from the album "the crab with the golden claws" when Tintin first met him. In that scene, Haddock was actually drunk with whisky (I won't spoil why, for those who haven't read it), but he sobers up by the end of the story.
 
Oh God, I don't know what the heck Peter Jackson is talking about. I'd much prefer real actors then this if they didn't want to make it an animated film.
 
Thank goodness you guys are bashing this. I was half expecting some positive posts here because this can be a "glass half full" forum. That's why I love you guys. But sometimes you gotta throw down the hammer when something looks as bad as this.:D:evil:
 
I think it looks pretty cool, growing up in French families I read a lot of these in French and they have a lot of influence in my life.

I just never pictured Tin Tin going fully live-action so it looks fine to me.
 
I was never big on Tintin, but I have to say this is all kids of stupid. They're be something in this movie that give them a reason not to have done this in live action (though it's often done to pull off camera angles that are hard to do in live-action), because I was hoping they'd just use the designs except animate them in CG, not...this.
 
Ah! That "shipwreck" picture is from the same story, isn't it? I haven't read that story in a while (all I can find at the library is "Tintin in America" :shrug:), but I thought those scenes looked familiar.

...doesn't really explain why he looks so scary, though. Drunken Haddock is supposed to be funny!



Well, actually, Tintin has gone live-action before. Here's a picture with all of the major characters. I'm not going to lie, Tintin looks like a dork there, but I still prefer him to the weird, plastic figurine seen above.
 
I like it, it looks pretty cool. It's Speilberg and Jackson, I have the upmost faith in these guys. Not every one of their movies has been a masterpiece, but it's pretty close. Wait until we see a trailer. A lot of people bashed Avatar's visuals, remember. I don't think anyone disliked the visuals in that movie.
 
More still from the movie are out.

I don't mind the look of Thompson and Thomson too much, but it is just a still and not a close-up of them and their (probably) horrible uncanny valley look.

Does Tintin normally use a gun? I'm really only familiar with the series that aired on HBO and I can't recall him using one in that.
 
I wonder if they're going to add in a female protagonist. The comics were pretty much male-dominated. The only real female character in the comics (Bianca, who had a maid) isn't in the stories the movie is using, and the movie industry likes to have a female "role model" in most big releases.
 
To quote another Spielberg movie, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should!"
 
Toon Zone Talkback - The Official "Tintin" Movie News Thread

Actually, this fits the situation better: "Before you knew what you had, you pattened it, you packaged it, you slapped it on a lunchbox and now *slam* YO?RE SELLING *slam* YOURE SELLING IT!
 
This is the ONLY movie Spielberg has made done entirely with mocap. That's Zemeckis you're thinking about (who hasn't made a "real" movie since Cast Away eleven years ago).



Also, "They've got hollow eyes, dead eyes, like a doll's eyes...they don't seem to be livin'..."
 
What surprised me the most was the great amount of darkness in the trailer, and entirely serious subject matter.

But don't worry, I, the big fan, loved it. Williams' score is wonderful, the characters' faces look decent enough (but where's Haddock) and there's certainly more action than I expected. As for Tintin's face? Well, it's still rather awkward, as it's normal-looking compared to the cartoony look of the others. I don't want to leap to 'dead eyes', but it's kinda odd. Never the less, I can live with it, and I still look forward greatly to this.

Also, I dig Bell's voice as Tintin.
 
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