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[Chic McGregor]

I'd give it a 9. Excellent animation, true to spirit of Tin Tin.

[Chic McGregor]

Jings! This is getting even less attention than the Corto Maltese thread. Is there an anti-Europe trope going on?

How about Asterix? There must have been a thread on Asterix at some point, how did that do?

[steveuk]

For some reason I have absolutely no interest in seeing this. I think it's the after taste from 'Indy 4' and a bit of Jackson's 'King Kong', both of which suffered from ludicrous action scenes in parts.

I'm also not a big fan of mocap films. I think its a creative dead end.

[Michael Stranger]

Yeah, same. I was quite excited about it but apprehensive about the mo-cap after Polar Express, Beowulf and Christmas Carol - and then a good friend saw it and said there was no feeling of investment in the characters, due to the lack of any sense of danger (characters regularly survive falls that would cripple a human), and that kind of killed the excitement for the film.

The 3D's another reason - too many films have done such crappy 3D that I'm put off seeing a flick if it's in that format. Nothing's matched up to Coraline's 3D yet ... unsung but totally amazed, much more than Avatar.

[Arjan Dirkse]

It's not out yet in the US is it?

Anyway, I'm not really interested. I liked the comics as a kid because of the art and the exotic places Tintin visited, but I haven't touched the books in over twenty years, probably.

[Christian U]

I'm the same as Steve, but I will watch it at some point, I am sure, and I am hoping to be positively surprised.

[Chic McGregor]

A trailer

Edited by Chic McGregor, 24 November 2011 - 11:08 PM.

[David Chapman]

Yeah, same. I was quite excited about it but apprehensive about the mo-cap after Polar Express, Beowulf and Christmas Carol - and then a good friend saw it and said there was no feeling of investment in the characters, due to the lack of any sense of danger (characters regularly survive falls that would cripple a human), and that kind of killed the excitement for the film.

I think the lack of investment is more due to the fact that all the characters are so crap.

[Arjan Dirkse]

I think the lack of investment is more due to the fact that all the characters are so crap.

Haddock is cool!

Thery should have made a series of action movies with Haddock as the main star (and none of this mo-cap crap...) Maybe Bruce Wilis could play him. Or Samuel Jackson...

[Ulf Imwiehe]

You know this looks very well done and all but I just can’t watch these trailers without being creeped out by Tintin’s visage. There’s something about his and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Haddock’s appearance I find oddly repulsive.

[Michael Stranger]

Yeah, that trailer killed it even more. The Tintin and Haddock handshake looked off, somehow - like their eyes weren't quite matching up with each other's.

Surely Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean showed that if you want your characters to do something crazy, you just animate them for that scene - mo capping a whole film seems unnecessary. I'd much rather see a caricatured version of reality like The Incredibles than something that's almost reality but not quite...

[Dave Wallace]

For some reason I have absolutely no interest in seeing this. I think it's the after taste from 'Indy 4' and a bit of Jackson's 'King Kong', both of which suffered from ludicrous action scenes in parts.

I'm also not a big fan of mocap films. I think its a creative dead end.

I feel pretty much the same. I would have preferred it if they'd have gone for a less photo-real, more stylised version that would at least justify the motion-capture. As it is, it looks like a very expensive approximation of what actual people might look like.

[Johnny Henning]

It would be interesting to see motion capture used in a film that doesn't also go for a realistic 3D rendering. The movie RENAISSANCE didn't use motion capture, but a lot of the scenes looked rotoscoped or used a computerized roto-process. Even then, that just about gave me a headache, but it was like a graphic novel set into motion.

I'm more interested in the way mo-cap and lo-tech, lo-cost alternatives are revolutionizing game graphics though, than in what it holds for cinema.

[Christian U]

Watching that trailer, I just kept wishing they'd have filmed it for real.

[Nicholas Taggart]

One of the best films I have seen this year.

Watching that trailer, I just kept wishing they'd have filmed it for real.

They couldn't have done lots of the stuff they did in this film in live action. No way.

[Christian U]

They should have shown some of that in the trailer,then.

[Arjan Dirkse]

One of the best films I have seen this year.

That's pretty high praise...

Can you say what you liked about it? Does it follow the story of the book closely?

[garjones]

It adapts 3 of the books doesn't it?

I've heard mixed reviews, some great set pieces and visuals but a bit of a messy narrative overall seems the consensus. I'll try and catch it while in the cinema and judge for myself.

Spielberg can miss the mark sometimes but I haven't seen anything he's done without merit. I was enjoying Indy 4 until it jumped the shark about two thirds in.

[Steve Sensible]

I was enjoying Indy 4 until it jumped the shark about two thirds in.

Apparently, in honour of that film, "nuked the fridge" has become the new "jumped the shark."

[Scott Wilkinson]

Apparently, in honour of that film, "nuked the fridge" has become the new "jumped the shark."

And we can't even blame Lucas for that, as Spielberg has said it was his idea.