I recently looked up a trailer for the movie "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn". The reason? I was stuck in a room alone for a while at Richard's father-in-law's house. Richard, Peachy and myself all went there for a director's meeting, and I ended up being sent out of the room while they spoke about my role in The Street Outreach Project. I'm hopefully going to be taking over the computer side of things.
Anyway, while I was in the room alone, I picked up a paper that was laying on a nearby table and was browsing through it. Right at the beginning of the paper was a two page article about the Tintin movie that Steven Spielburg and Peter Jackson have been working on together. I ended up being real interested in seeing the movie, and thought to myself "I should look up a trailer of this when I get home on YouTube. I'm glad I see. The movie looks really funny and I definitely want to see it, despite all the comments on the trailer saying it looks like a huge pile of shit. I haven't really read the books, so I can't see what the problem with the movie is. Looks perfectly fine to me and looks like a great piece of entertainment.
It seems that there are more than one book mixed into the movie, but is that really such a huge problem? I'm going to have to check out the novels at some time, if I can find anywhere to get them from.
Here are some of the comments that are bad-mouthing the Tintin movie.
"they've also included the book where Haddock and Tintin become watered down stereotypes of themselves as if recreated by a 5 year old from a cursory glance, I believe that one was "Tintin and the Multiplex""
"although i love Spielberg and all i've read Tintin my whole life and this looks terrible"
"I'm afraid to say this looks f*cking awful"
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of things though. Question is, how many people are going to see the negative remarks and think "Alright. I'm definitely not going to see this." instead of forming their own opinion?
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