movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
I normally hate motion capture movies. But the teaser poster for the first Tintin movie came out, and it looks pretty wicked. Tintin looks a bit young in real life, but he was always drawn as if he was a kid. (I'm assuming he's in his twenties, just because he's a reporter and lives on his own.) His eyes look a little wonky, until you take into account that he's always drawn with somewhat vacant eyes, whereas other characters aren't. Snowy, though, looks absolutely freakin' beautiful. I just hope they don't completely eliminate his habit of getting plastered. (I certainly hope they don't tone down Haddock's drinking and nonsensical insults.)
I've been reading the 7-volume collection (which I think is most of the core stories, missing a few later tales). It takes about a book or two to really get into it (there are three books per volume, so it's about 1/2-2/3 the way through the first volume), but it's really addictive. It tends to be on the wordy side, but most really old comics do, and I'd recommend it quite highly.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
Just watched the trailer and while I'm not sold on the movie, the animation looks beautiful.
We don't great looks at the characters but in the little we do see they don't look like creepy zombies, like Zemekis or Clone Wars characters, with stiff movements (Zemekis) or hollow, dead eyes (both). They actually look good.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
If you pause on one so it's not moving, the characters look a little off. But not like they've been cursed to walk the earth for all time, subsisting only upon the brains of hapless victims. Snowy looks amazing in motion. I think it's a given that they'll tone down some of the borderline racist stuff from the comics (hey, it was another time), but I hope they don't completely eliminate Snowy's habit of getting into liquor. I can't imagine they'd cut out Haddock's drinking; he'd be a totally different character without that trait.
Going through the trailer, here's what I noticed: Tintin in the dark, likely in the storeroom in the mansion I forget the name of, which Haddock buys later.
Tintin uncovering one of the models of the Unicorn, definitely in the aforementioned mansion, followed by Snowy cringing.
Tintin seeing the first Unicorn model, probably at the market where the whole affair gets kicked off.
The Thompsons hiding (not very well) behind a newspaper, likely hunting for the wallet thief. Note that the newspaper is in French--nice to see they didn't change that up.
Haddock and Snowy on a ship.
One of the Thompsons stopping the kleptomaniac.
Calculus (???) fighting someone. (Hmmm, can't figure out where that would come in.)
Tintin fighting.
Someone taking off in the plane (most likely Tintin, hunting for the Unicorn.)
Plane crashing in the desert (are they mixing in Cigars of the Pharaoh here?).
Tintin running to catch someone who's escaping in a car, which could be any of a few dozen instances. He's got a gun, which is nice, considering that Spielberg is directing and he has a think for walkie talkies instead.
Two people walking through the desert (again, likely an element of Cigars of the Pharaoh mixed in).
Ship that looks like the Unicorn crashing into sand that's rolling like waves--maybe this is one of Haddock's "imaginations" that they animated?
Tintin on a ship, exterior.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
(I certainly hope they don't tone down Haddock's drinking and nonsensical insults.)
