I'm just waiting for Dashing to come back from the movie going "That was the most awful piece of shit I've ever seen in my entire life". You know it'll happen.
And then we will have an epic forum war, just like the good old days. Only this time, I'll have to see it as soon as possible so I don't show up at the end of the fight when all the threads are being locked like I normally do.
Right, that's it, I need to see it tonight. Not that I'm a massive fan of the comics like Secret Fawful appears to be, or even interested in the fact that Jackson and Spielberg are involved. I'm interested purely for the fact that the script is written by both the man who helped make a modern day version of both Jekyll and Hyde and Sherlock Holmes awesome, Steven Moffat, and one of my favourite directors of the past ten years, Edgar Wright. Really should've seen this sooner.
In a nutshell, it feels like the movie was focused on technique, and while it looks truly beautiful, it lacks in all the other departments. And in a world in which computer graphics get prettier every day, this movie, in a couple of years, will be forgotten with the rest of the for-their-time beautiful, but lacking story wise, computer animated films.
You are free to have a personal opinion of the movie but what you call an extremely uninspiring story has survived for over 70 years so thinking it will be forgotten all of a sudden is as wrong as it gets.
Troglodyte! Fresh-water sham! Imposter! Bashi-bazouk! I just wanted to comment and say that this review is pure bullshit. Or Joop didn't watch the movie at all. Something like that.
I'll write a review eventually but I disagree on most of these points and I give the movie a 9 blistering barnacles out of 11 overall.
Please try to motivate your reasons instead of just calling my review bullshit. I've watched the movie very carefully and stated my opinion very critically.
You are free to have a personal opinion of the movie but what you call an extremely uninspiring story has survived for over 70 years so thinking it will be forgotten all of a sudden is as wrong as it gets.
Wait a minute. I did not think the ORIGINAL story was extremely uninspiring. I love the original comic. I just think that the new twist given to it by the scriptwriters completely flattens it out. It just becomes a cliché blockbuster hollywood story, because of the things they've added. (I'm not going to touch upon those things, because that would obviously spoil the movie.)
The things they did keep from the original story('s), were mostly action scenes. The movie just didn't take it's time to let the viewer and the characters breathe.
I'm not saying the story will be forgotten, but the movie itself will be.
On another note, I watched the Flemish version in Belgium last weekend. In Holland we grew up with a Flemish Tintin (Kuifje) and it actually made me like the movie better. Of course, this won't work for most people on this forum. But for me, it made the movie feel closer to the source material than the English version. My opinion about the story and characters remains the same though.
Please try to motivate your reasons instead of just calling my review bullshit. I've watched the movie very carefully and stated my opinion very critically.
Please try to motivate your reasons instead of just calling my review bullshit. I've watched the movie very carefully and stated my opinion very critically.
I admit I probably was too harsh, but I probably wouldn't have said anything had you not said what you said about John William's work. Because my goodness...I disagree so strongly on the quality of his music in this that every time I read what you said I have to resist the urge to set something on fire.
I admit I probably was too harsh, but I probably wouldn't have said anything had you not said what you said about John William's work. Because my goodness...I disagree so strongly on the quality of his music in this that every time I read what you said I have to resist the urge to set something on fire.
John Williams is one of my favorite movie composers. But everytime I watch one of the movies he's scored, I leave the theater whistling one of the tunes that's so obviously linked to a character, macguffin or location. The music in this movie worked, but it didn't stand out. Maybe I expect too much of John Williams, but this score just didn't cut it for me.
But then again, as I mentioned in the review, I think it's probably because of the pacing of the movie, as John Williams didn't really get the time to work out a character or plot point specific theme.
I'm sorry. It's good music ofcourse. But it just doesn't do it for me compared to John Williams other works. It's a nice listen, but when it's done I don't feel the urge to listen to it again and within the minute I will have forgotten it.
It's a nice soundtrack. It's just not up to par with most of the classic Williams scores.
I'm sorry. It's good music ofcourse. But it just doesn't do it for me compared to John Williams other works. It's a nice listen, but when it's done I don't feel the urge to listen to it again and within the minute I will have forgotten it.
It's a nice soundtrack. It's just not up to par with most of the classic Williams scores.
For you. Not for me. I've hummed it every day since I've heard it.
I gotta agree with Fawful on this one. I'm listening to some of the pieces on youtube right now, and "Sir Francis and the Unicorn" has more or less convinced me to go buy the soundtrack. AND I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE MOVIE YET.
I liked it. I thought it was cool. And, so what if it's mo-cap? Sure, non-mo-cap would be great, but there was nothing about the visuals that I didn't like. Heck, I actually like how the characters look. So, there.
right after tinton, steven speilbergh and other directors, there are several directors working on this right after tinton, jurassic park 4, and cant wait, offically being into construction right now, but more into it right after tinton, official release is in 2013 or 2014
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You are free to have a personal opinion of the movie but what you call an extremely uninspiring story has survived for over 70 years so thinking it will be forgotten all of a sudden is as wrong as it gets.
Please try to motivate your reasons instead of just calling my review bullshit. I've watched the movie very carefully and stated my opinion very critically.
Wait a minute. I did not think the ORIGINAL story was extremely uninspiring. I love the original comic. I just think that the new twist given to it by the scriptwriters completely flattens it out. It just becomes a cliché blockbuster hollywood story, because of the things they've added. (I'm not going to touch upon those things, because that would obviously spoil the movie.)
The things they did keep from the original story('s), were mostly action scenes. The movie just didn't take it's time to let the viewer and the characters breathe.
I'm not saying the story will be forgotten, but the movie itself will be.
On another note, I watched the Flemish version in Belgium last weekend. In Holland we grew up with a Flemish Tintin (Kuifje) and it actually made me like the movie better. Of course, this won't work for most people on this forum. But for me, it made the movie feel closer to the source material than the English version. My opinion about the story and characters remains the same though.
Ahem. He did.
I admit I probably was too harsh, but I probably wouldn't have said anything had you not said what you said about John William's work. Because my goodness...I disagree so strongly on the quality of his music in this that every time I read what you said I have to resist the urge to set something on fire.
John Williams is one of my favorite movie composers. But everytime I watch one of the movies he's scored, I leave the theater whistling one of the tunes that's so obviously linked to a character, macguffin or location. The music in this movie worked, but it didn't stand out. Maybe I expect too much of John Williams, but this score just didn't cut it for me.
But then again, as I mentioned in the review, I think it's probably because of the pacing of the movie, as John Williams didn't really get the time to work out a character or plot point specific theme.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I probably won't go see Tintin for a while (over here it's "Tim und Struppi"!). But I will check out the soundtrack.
The Adventure Continues
Haddock's Theme is brilliant too.
It's a nice soundtrack. It's just not up to par with most of the classic Williams scores.
For you. Not for me. I've hummed it every day since I've heard it.
I'm glad you think it's a good score, and I hope you'll enjoy listening to it even more.
If you take the books out of account, what did you think of it as a movie?
That's what I tried to do when I wrote my review.
It was great till they got in the aeroplane. Then it kinda crashed. And so did the aeroplane.