Tobar said:
Tintin is not at all a good example to use. I love the Tintin books and I wanted to love that movie but it was so hard. That movie couldn’t decide on which side of the line it wanted to be on. They went through a lot of trouble to make the characters look hyper realistic and mocapped the actors performances and then the next second they had them running around getting into Looney Tunes level antics. Captain Haddock getting caught up in the plane’s propeller being the best example of this.
One of the best things about the book series is that they feel authentic. The characters were always treated like real people and not cartoon characters. They sometimes got into some fantastical adventures but it always felt grounded. The movie did not. It was basically a continuation of the zany antics that started in the KotCS.
For my money, this is the ultimate Tintin experience to be had outside of the books.
I think you missed my point. That being that Tin Tin had a lot of the energy that was missing from KOTCS and the lack of energy made it a chore to sit through. I am not requiring you or anyone to like Tin Tin or think it is a good movie and you are welcome to say that I am not allowed to enjoy it, but it has to be said that the pacing was much better then KOTCS’ and it had more of the classic adventure serial feel. The point I was making was that the direction is a huge improvement over KOTCS, and that has nothing to do if you like the style of animation or you think it was a realistic film.
The problem with KOTCS was it took forever to get anywhere and once it did half the time they had to replace the star with CGI and he lumbered around at such a slow pace it was hard to believe he was able to escape any of the bad guys and they had to keep turning Indy into a cartoon to do half the stunts any way, so if they are going to do that I say just make the whole film a cartoon, and it’s not like classic adventure serials and the Indy movies had not mixed slapstick with the drama in the past.
I am have read the Tin Tin comics too and there is a ton of slapstick in them so I didn’t have a problem with that, and they didn’t feel like a tour of the real world because they were packed with racial stereotypes and cliches. I am not saying they were bad, they were a product of their time and I don’t think the film was out of touch with the feel of the books at all.
Feel free to disagree with me about the film if you didn’t like it, but I don’t think you have to like it to see that Tin Tin just had more energy and passion behind it then KOTCS and it was paced a lot better, so over all I would say the direction is a lot better in Tin Tin then it was in KOTCS. In Tin Tin the action is exciting and moves the plot forward, in KOTCS it was slow and the camera didn’t move much and in the end a lot of the scenes put me to sleep. That is what I mean when I say Tin Tin proves Spielberg can still direct this type of film, I didn’t say he should write or animate it, because he never did that in the past.
I am an idiot who likes the worst garbage ever made, I admit that, and so I must also admit I enjoyed this film. Having said that I don’t think you have to enjoy it to see that it was better directed then KOTCS.