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Not since the Arthur remake has Hollywood so firmly placed its finger on the pulse of WHAT AMERICA WANTS: CGI adaptations of Belgian comic books from the early 1900s. It’s almost spooky how deeply this taps into our collective subconscious. For example, after all of these years of not even realizing how badly I wanted an adaptation of Belgian comic books from the early 1900s, little did I realize that I wanted that adaptation to be so heavily computerized that it sucked any possible charm from the original source material. Then again, that’s less about Hollywood taking its time (because Hollywood knows that if you’re going to get something right, you have to be patient and put in the work) and more about me lacking any kind of self-awareness. I should have known that’s what I wanted all along, based on my love of the movie Polar Express and my on-going letter writing campaign to all of the major studios to FINALLY bring Krazy Kat and Ignatz to the big screen (literally the big screen, IMAX 3D).
Zero adults and zero children, please, Mr. Fandango!
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Now with less horrible racism!
Are you sure? Wait till the full trailer to confirm that…
Oh come on now, Baby Friday!
The horrible racism was mostly in Hergé’s early books. Books that Hergé apologized profusely for later on in life, embarrassed. Most books of that time period were heavily censored and revised while he worked in Nazi-occupied Belgium.
ANyway. It will definitely have less horrible racism, of that we can be sure.
i am actually looking forward to this. tintin was a pretty big part of my childhood. in america.
Taking One For The Team: deeky sees Tintin
Mine too. I loved the cartoon when I was little. I liked the ones where they were in space the best.
That’s why I am really, really, really not looking forward to this. I loved tintin growing up (as a small french-immersion child in Canada). I didn’t give a crap when they made stupid Transformers movies, for instance, because who cared about those. But Tintin is great. Fun stories (though dated, as BF points out) that are told perfectly through Herge’s groundbreaking artwork.
I wish Hollywood would realize that not every single piece of art exist solely for them to put on screen and milk for cash.
I tend to disagree because this was awesome, right (I am quite sure it wasn’t?)? #BNPGartMovies
-starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette #BNPGartMovies
I know I’m going to get some flack for this, but I just don’t think the remake did justice to the original. I mean, they completely cut all the character development just so they could fit more explosions in.
Yes, this. In francophone countries, Tintin was a huge part of our childhood and our parent’s childhood. The creator, Hergé, is revered by many as a pioneer in his field. He was prejudiced like many in those days but his art was unlike any other. When I first heard it would be Spielberg adapting I cringed. He was planning a live-action movie. Now after watching this trailer and seeing it regurgitated as a 21st century 3-D/CGI bonanza, I just want to stay as far away from it as possible. I think most people will.
Needs more dog
There has to be a way that i can hack into the matrix and keep upvoting this.
I was excited at first, but this trailer is totally making my joy & imagination second guess itself.
More like Le Petit BARFtième, amirite?
* – please note, this joke intented to kill ‘em dead at the 1900′s Belgian comic strip blog that I frequent.
No joke. I would go to a Krazy Katz and Ignatz movie. But what I would really love to see is a big screen adaptation of this:
I would love to see this as well, but a lot of idiots out there would be thinking that it’s a rip-off of something else:
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a section called “A Walk Down Yesterday’s Main Street” where there’s a theater showing a double bill of George Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon” and “Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse Go to the Circus” in a loop.
Come to Chicago and sleep on Chris Trash’s couch!
Ok so this has amazing writers, producers, directors and cast and is based on a series of comics / subsequent cartoons that I hold dear.
HOW the FUCK did they DROP THE BALL this badly?????
agreed, it’s like they’re trying to collectively destroy our childhood.
Yo, Watchmen is outside and it wants its font back.
Can’t get it back. Just like I can’t get back those hours I spent watching Watchmen.
Spoiler Alert: The unicorn is not what it appears to be.
The alternate version to the Blade Runner alternate ending?
Steven Spielberg is offering a small order of frites and 1 liter of the Trappist ale of your choice if you would just please go see this.
I hope he realizes what he’s offering. Westvleteren is not easy to come by.
If they’d used a bright, colorful and unique version of traditional animation instead of this gloomy and soulless CGI, wouldn’t it be more popular with critics and people in general? Since everybody is doing this shitty CGI now, it seems like going against that would make it stand out so much more. Or maybe I’m really old and should just die so kids can enjoy the Polar Express-ification of all movies.
Well we should just be thankful it wasn’t updated by Michael Bay: The Adventures of Palladium: With One Hot Bitch coming to a nightmare theatre near you.
Polar Express is the mother of all evil. Global warming included.
The library of the elementary school I attended was in a broom closet. It was so small that only 2 or 3 kids were allowed in at a time and there was a bloody competition to determine who would get in first to get the new Guinness Book of World Records (1993) or Adventures of Tintin (not new, but we didn’t care, it was just THAT GOOD).
I got my hands on one once (such a satisfying victory for a 10 year old) only to have it ripped out of my hands moments later… kid never returned it either, so I was banned from the closet library for the rest of my days.
Anyway, I’ll probably watch with cautious optimism……
I was the first person at my school to check out the 1993 Guinness Book of World Records, and it was the proudest day of my life.
The secret of the unicorn is that he is actually a senator from Mississippi.
“Tintin gets 10 thumbs up!”
-Binary Ebert And Roeper
I don’t know, guys. Steven Moffat! Edgar Wright! Simon Pegg! Nick Frost! Daniel Craig! NO RUSSEL BRAND! All things I kind of like! Plus lots of other important, good-sounding names. It can’t be THAT bad, right?
It’s more than a little embarrassing that they basically had the title of the comic in the dialogue, right? Did Tintin really need to wonder about what sort of Secrets the Unicorn might contain?! I only hope Speilberg goes all-in and has the last line of the film something like “Well Snowy, I sure am glad we found out the Secret of the Unicorn!” Roll credits.
Yeah I’m sorry you guys, but I LOVE Tin Tin and it was a huge part of my childhood and I will be the first and only person in line to see this movie. WHATEVS, ALL THE MOVIE THEATER IS FOR ME.
Tintin is one of my favorite things ever so I will be completely incapable of judging this film properly. I’ll just be so excited that it actually exists that my brain won’t process anything other than “holy shit it’s Tintin!” Uncanny valley be damned.
“Uncanny valley be damned.”
Do you think it would be better if they had made the characters look more like their animated selves? I thought that’s what they might have been going for until that shot at the end
yeah i mean I’d like to see more of it, kinda hard to tell overall what they’re going to look like in this teaser trailer (aside from that shot at the end). Tintin was always the most “normal looking” of the characters, not as obviously cartoonish as Thompson and Thomson, Captain Haddock, Prof. Calculus, etc.
But I think Dick Lightning made a good point above… if they’d made a really well-done traditional cel animation version instead, I think people would be more into it. Though it might get written off as just a kids’ movie that way, I suppose. Whatever I’m going to give them my money like a sucker anyway
Tintin was not big for me, I’m more of an Asterix kid. I wouldn’t be bothered by the 3D spectacle aspect of an adaptation like this if it wasn’t for the fucking motion capture. Dead eyes and realistic human movement make highly stylized characters look like they’re all suffering from a two-day-old zombie bite that they don’t want to tell the group about.
On the OTHER hand, Super 8 makes me remember why I used to love Spielberg? Maybe it’s just the chimes in the trailer score… but Tintin does not look good, no matter how much I want it to.
Don’t worry though, no matter what you love nostalgically the most, it’s highly likely that it’s sacred to the film industry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPYNdn36rsI
I don’t know, you guys. I liked some of Stephen Duffy’s stuff, especially with the Lilac Time, but I never really thought it was enough for a movie.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/Rx1rCHuaqJI/AAAAAAAAE1I/rD7IXQ44rSA/s400/tin+tin
Man, that sucked. There’s supposed to be a picture there.
i upvoted it anyway, even though you kind of fucked it up.
Tintin blandly staring into the middle distance as he listens to a couple thugs searching around in his room or wherever wasn’t exactly what I was hoping for when I have only been looking for reassurance that this won’t be terrible.
I need to see more footage of their faces moving before I can hate on it. I’m still hoping it’s good, but yeah, the polished, shadowed, cgi that all standard cgi looks like now is a bit of a disappointment.
I remember reading something the Spielberg or whoever said that was along the lines of “We’re basically taking Hergé’s drawings and STYLE and just popping them into three dimensions!” I’m not seeing that just yet.
I want more and I’m still holding out hope against hope that it’ll be good.
And also, it’s not really Tintin’s bland expression that bothers me in that shot, it’s more the way his head floats around like a party balloon!
but Steven Moffat helped write it! And Edgar Wright! And I tend to like what they do. So I might just see it because I know it will at least have a good story, even though the CGI style kind of freaks me out.
wrote*
Tenses aren’t working out today.
and i just corrected a mistake i didn’t make.
This trailer gets a B+, for Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles +.
I wrote my master’s thesis on Krazy Kat.
That’s just one more piece of the puzzle that is me, you guys.
What an awful teaser trailer. Spielberg must have been so busy prepping Lincoln that he put his non-union Mexican equivalent in charge.
Robert Rodriguez?
Tintin confession time: my mom got me the video of the original cartoon of this from the library, because it had “unicorn” in the title and was I ever pressed for unicorns at the age of 6. Needless to say, we were both disappointed. This experience makes me slightly more inclined to want to see this movie, but probably not til it’s on Netflix. And I’m visiting my mom.
Spielberg has firmly, officially nuked the fridge.
What filmmakers do with CGI as a tool was much, much more interesting back when it would take hours, days, or even weeks to complete shots that would appear on screen for just seconds. When effects were unprecedented and astronomically-expensive, directors had to thoroughly justify each extremely costly shot as it supported, pertained, or propelled the story along.
Now that effects are (relatively) cheap & easy, directors wield the digital paintbrush like giddy little children. They focus on the fluff-the eye candy-rather than the substance-the plot, story, characters. You only have to look as far as Lucas’ own recent creations to see how badly that has affected the film business. Sure, CGI enables the Bruckheimers or Bays of the film-making world to make visually stunning stuff, but aside from the jaw-dropping visuals, their creations are soulless and often brainless, steaming bags of poo.