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The Steven Spielberg-directed 3D The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is set to open Dec. 23 in the U.S. and Canada but releases in Europe weeks before that. Produced by Spielberg and Peter Jackson, it employs Jackson’s WETA motion capture technology (the same used for Gollum in Lord Of The Rings and for Kong in King Kong):
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If I want to stare at a pair of dead eyes for 90 minutes I’ll hire a fifty-dollar hooker.
That is the greatest comment of all time. I spit out my morning coffee while reading that. Thanks, Rif.
I lol’d
Everyone understands that the ‘dead eye’ problem was the biggest issue with this type of animation. But bare in mind it’s a mature technology by now. Just saying.
Fifty bucks seems rather steep for a dead hooker.
hilarious
That’s really funny! ;o
90 minutes? I’m impressed.
You, sir, deserve a round of applause. Well done.
This is an epic comment. And spot on about this garbage trailer too.
oh that comment was better than the trailer– and probably the movie. thanks for that, rif!
YES! This pleases Gaga.
Hey Nikke. The system you have reported that they have employed for the motion capture isn’t factually true. They are using the perf-cap system that James Cameron pioneered on Avatar, rather than the same capture system Jackson used on Kong and LotR.
why-oh-why does it have to be animated? reminding me of polar express and not in a good way…
Hasn’t Jackson already….or he’s s’pose to direct PART 2??
anybody know? anybody?
Is this one of those awful cartoonized movies? It looks awful.
No, it’s 100% live action. *rolls eyes*
Perfect summary above. This looks horrendous. Live action or proper Pixar-style CG animation would have been fine but this dead-eyed mo-cap rubbish that Zemeckis has been trying to push on everyone for the best part of a decade is the worst form of cinema out there (with the possible exception of the output of the team behind the seemingly endless so-called spoofs like Epic Movie).
Despite being endlessly told online that i must know everything about Tintin because i’m European and apparently we all love the character more than life itself (I’m barely exaggerating) i know nothing about the character beyond the image and everything i’ve seen of Spielberg’s film doesn’t entice me to find anything out this October when it opens in the UK.
Strap yourself in tight boys and girls, the Uncanny Valley stagecoach line is about to be attacked yet again by that group of bored moviegoers who are going to rehash the same old arguments against too-realistic CGI human characters AD NAUSEAM.
It’s all been complained about before but the studios keep crankin’ these things out, so even if UV is true… nothings going to change, m’kay?
This trailer is quite bizarre. It’s like they forced the editor to pick each shot at random. I think the vast majority of movie goers are going to be completely baffled by this.
Was that claymation with bad lighting?
Please, leave the animation to Pixar.. and stick to world war 2 dramas.
I was a lot less impressed with the animation than I expected to be.
yep. me too. I’m really surprised at how middle of the road it is. TinTin’s eyes are completely dead.
HUGE fan of the graphic novels as a child, but…This looks aweful. What is this? Who is this for? WTF is that trailer about?
So sad! Tintin, The Smurfs, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Hollywood keeps screwing up my childhood favorite reads!!! If they stuck closer to the original material, they might actually have a chance to produce enchanting movies. But no they try desperately to make old stories and staple characters (Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Peter Pan, Hansel & Gretel…) look “hipper” and end up washing them down in a sea of annoying clichés.
I had a feeling this would be a mis-step for Spielberg the moment it was announced. Looks bad, and that’s with the dramatic soundtrack doing a lot of heavy lifting. If this is meant to get people excited about the film, it’s an epic fail.
Or you could take a lunch with Jeff Robinov.
Not impressed…even slightly.
Wow. Uncanny Valley much? Looks beyond awful.
Oh, it’s Steven Spielberg directing. For a second I thought it was Robert Zemeckis with another one of his dead eye sequels! But they obviously shared the same technology. What a waste.
this mo cap stuff is just not working people. why didn’t they just make this live action? It may have been interesting to me if so. The only person who’s been able to sell mocap thus far is james cameron and that’s because he integrated it with reality and his effects were much closer to photo real than this or the attempts made by zemeckis. Sorry guys it’s just awkward looking – the dead eyes scare people and the movement is jarring.
Word…..i think they knew it was a dog when Jackson declined to direct the sequel.
I don’t understand why, but this style of motion cap really terrifies me. Like clown-doll-from-Poltergeist-terror.
where’s the dog?
In the trailer.
Seems like they went out of their way to cut out any facial animation from that trailer. Too creepy/off-putting? That’s usually the case with these mo-cap things.
No one is looking forward to this. Huge BOMB.
Stateside it could concievably underwhelm, but it’s going to be MASSIVE in Europe.
Sooner or later, there’s going to be an ostensibly American movie that goes flat here but does earth-shaking gangbusters overseas, an U.S. audiences realization that they aren’t “the deciders” of what is and isn’t a major hit will be a big story. Maybe this is it.
Note they hardly show any of the characters. Tintin is totally off model. This looks like it fell slap bang into the uncanny valley. If Spielberg is taking his usual cut of the gross (and Jackson too?) this is going to have a mammoth hill to climb to recoup, while of course making S & J stupid amounts of money.
Hot trailer my ass. This is a travesty.
The animation is a little weird, but it does look like a great adventure film.
yikes, that looks kinda not good…