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kindkitI saw Tintin a few days before Christmas but didn't get around to posting about it until now. I don't actually have a whole lot to say. It was fun! I was worried about the animation, which looks very weird in still photos/screencaps, but it worked beautifully in motion without any uncanny valley effect. The 3D was sometimes worthwhile and never terribly annoying. Jamie Bell's voicing of Tintin was charming; I was less enamored of the movie's Haddock than a lot of other folks, because I think he was played a little too much for broad comedy. There was moderate slashiness, but less so than the comics. One particularly telling moment for me was the scene where (mild spoiler) (skip) Haddock sets fire to the lifeboat. In the film, he does it because he's drunk and cold. This is true in the comics too, but there, his primary motivation is that he thinks Tintin is cold. By taking that out, the movie both makes Haddock looks more selfish and ridiculous than in the comics and downplays Haddock's immediate and intense devotion to Tintin. And in general the movie downplays how lonely and broken and depressed Haddock was before Tintin happened to him.
My main problem with the movie was that the action sequences just went on and on and bloody on, to the expense of coherency and character development. I was reminded a bit of the ending of Hot Fuzz (also directed by Edgar Wright), except that in that case there's a layer of parody. (ETA: Oops, Wright didn't direct this, he co-wrote it. Still, my main point stands, I think.)
So, it was enjoyable, but I haven't felt any particular urge to watch it again. I remain primarily a comicsverse fan.
In other movie news, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is finally going to open here this weekend, so I finally will get to see it. I'm looking forward to it, although I'm sure this is another case where I'll prefer the bookverse.
Before the Yuletide reveal I mentioned wanting to talk about something in my source that I'd noticed (I wrote TTSS bookverse fic). It was (not a major spoiler, but cut anyway) the scene where Bill Roach tells Jim Prideaux that someone's been asking where he lives. Jim tries to get a description out of him: "'Tall friend?' he asked softly. 'Sloppy tall kind of fellow, Jumbo? Eyebrows and a stoop? Thin feller?'"
Somehow, the first couple of times I read the book I managed to miss that this is a (rather laconic and Jim-esque) description of Bill. Jim thinks (hopes) Bill has come for him.
Realizing that absolutely broke my heart. TTSS is one of those books that finds a new way to devastate you every time you read it.
My main problem with the movie was that the action sequences just went on and on and bloody on, to the expense of coherency and character development. I was reminded a bit of the ending of Hot Fuzz (also directed by Edgar Wright), except that in that case there's a layer of parody. (ETA: Oops, Wright didn't direct this, he co-wrote it. Still, my main point stands, I think.)
So, it was enjoyable, but I haven't felt any particular urge to watch it again. I remain primarily a comicsverse fan.
In other movie news, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is finally going to open here this weekend, so I finally will get to see it. I'm looking forward to it, although I'm sure this is another case where I'll prefer the bookverse.
Before the Yuletide reveal I mentioned wanting to talk about something in my source that I'd noticed (I wrote TTSS bookverse fic). It was (not a major spoiler, but cut anyway) the scene where Bill Roach tells Jim Prideaux that someone's been asking where he lives. Jim tries to get a description out of him: "'Tall friend?' he asked softly. 'Sloppy tall kind of fellow, Jumbo? Eyebrows and a stoop? Thin feller?'"
Somehow, the first couple of times I read the book I managed to miss that this is a (rather laconic and Jim-esque) description of Bill. Jim thinks (hopes) Bill has come for him.
Realizing that absolutely broke my heart. TTSS is one of those books that finds a new way to devastate you every time you read it.
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Date: 2012-01-06 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 09:55 pm (UTC);)
Yeah, they show the captain mostly in a comic way. Though I found funny when Haddock tried to extinguish the fire with alcohol lol and when he drank all the alcohol in the plane he had to fill the tank with the gases of the mouth xD.
But yes the comics are far better ;)
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Date: 2012-02-25 10:32 pm (UTC)http://slashgoddess80.dreamwidth.org/881.html
The video is already embed,in youtube you had to login because it´s for adults :p