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In case you missed it, Serkis will once again be covered in balls, this time for Spielberg as well as Jackson!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. This news began as whispers over the weekend and this morning Hollywood Reporter's sources confirmed it.
It's not much of a leap to assume that Peter Jackson would have brought Andy Serkis to do motion/performance capture for TINTIN. I mean, the man pretty much originated using that kind of technology to express a real performance through a digital character with Gollum. However there was Spielberg... this isn't Peter Jackson's project so much as it's team-up with two of the best contemporary filmmakers working today (with a third yet to be determined), so whoever was cast as Captain Haddock would have to work in all three... at least if they want continuity... I guess with performance capture you can keep the visual appearance of the characters the same throughout all three films...
Anyway, it seems Serkis has passed the tests. The man is a good actor (and he's especially good in LONGFORD, so congrats to him for getting that Golden Globe nomination) and I can't wait to see him in this universe! What about you?
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It's the new second!
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what about ironman
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does anyone really care about this movie?
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...so Serkis is starring in a gay porn vid?
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nice headline.
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No, seriously, I've watched the trailer and six minute preview like fifty times already. I think I need therapy, but I'm in school for psychology. The irony amuses me. Why so serious? :)
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tin tin. yeah. Hey when can we expect a Madeleine movie? or perhaps Paddington Bear?
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Guess he might be the dog or something. Always thought Serkis should've received some sort of "Virtual Thespian" Oscar nod for his performance of Gollum. Y'know, something Precious to display on his mantle.
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That's the one I'm holding out for.
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what youre saying is serkis is playing haddock?
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It's Steve Carr.
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So I could really care less about this movie. Doesn't Spielberg realize that no American kid knows who the hell TinTin is?
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You're right what the hell is TinTin?
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Your post was pretty funny, thanks for a good laugh.
1. Belgium is not France. 2. I think the expression is "I could NOT care less. 3. I'm American, and not only do I know Tin Tin, I know it's pretty fucking cool. What - are they not supposed to try to expose people to something new? -
Try watching a double bill of King Kong and The Terminal. Then we'll talk.
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I read some of the comics as a kid, and I remember how much I hated it. Here is a line from the wiki article: "Tintin is remarkable in that he is apparently devoid of sexual or romantic feeling, a feature he shares to a certain degree with most of the other characters in the books"...Maybe that is why?
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And Tintin is pretty awesome, so I'm excited about this. My money is on Robert Zemeckis for the third filmmaker. He dreams in motion capture.
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they are retarded. they wouldnt go to the effort of posting such sentiments if they werent wilfully ignorant. thus it doesnt make them sound, it illustrates they are.
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Since when has TinTin been popular in the United States? Should I expect a Buster Brown, Yellow Kid, and Little Nemo movie next?
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fuck me!!! this overwhelming ignorance for anything non-american is beyond belief. grow the fuck up kids and expand your horizons. theres a lot out there that you didnt create... twats
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that Jackson and Spielberg were going to teabag Serkis.
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... the LOTR movies off an on on tv. Serkis deserves some sort of "The Academy didn't really understand what was going on at the time and need to make up for it" Oscar.
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It kind of makes you wonder what is in the water over there... And yes, you can still see the Smurfs cartoons on TV over there, although in Dutch (sorry, Flemish)
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...some more beard and... Perfect!
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This is 2007. Type Tintin into Google and find out who he is, you ignorant schmucks.
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...on this site? Anyway, my point was that the average American kid does not know who TinTin is, so who is this movie supposed to be marketed at in the US? The huge demographic of 25 - 35 year old American TinTin lovers that read the comic in the 80s who "know it's pretty fucking cool?" Nothing wrong with exposing poeple to something new, it just seems like an odd choice for what I would assume is a big budget film. And excuse me for thinking TinTin was French.
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People who think it sounds cool to not know who the hell Tintin is and/or think making a movie about him is a bad idea because THEY don't know who is are tools. This also goes for people who consider it "condescending" to point this out.
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I'm one of the ignorant 30-something year-old Americans who didn't know who or what TinTin was. I thought it was a dog; but then it occurred to me I was thinking of Rin Tin Tin. So I did a wiki on it and learned. The cartoon art looked familiar, but I can't say I read it, watched it, or otherwise associated with it at all during my childhood. No one else I know did, either, and certainly neither my kids nor their friends have a clue. Which isn't to say the film couldn't be successful. But it IS to say they better not hope to market the project by striking a chord of nostalgia in Americans, cuz they won't be getting it. Better to take the "reintroduce" approach and treat it like it's a new thing. Or add lesbian stompkata!
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...doing the same motion capture shite over and over again. 'Yeah Andy, you're great, as long as your mug isn't on screen for real, mate.'
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I wouldn't worry too much about this being an odd choice for a big budget film. The fact is that Tin-Tin is one of the most popular and widely read comic strip characters in the world, far more so than a lot of the American comic book characters. Here in the UK for example almost everyone would at least have a rough idea who Tin-Tin is. A lot of people read the books as kids and often also read the French language versions in French class in school. Certainly out of my "normal", "non-nerd" friends I could find a lot more people who've read a Tin-Tin book than even, say, a Superman comic (most people here's knowledge of Superman is entirely TV and film based). Furthermore, Tin-Tin is far more popular in the rest of Europe than it is here in the UK. The thing is printed in over 50 languages around the world. That's a lot of people. Then add in the casual movie-goers who are attracted to anything with Speilberg and/or Peter Jacksons' names on it (which I'm sure would account for a lot of the American public, even if they've not heard of Tin-Tin as some of you imply) and you're talking about an enormous audience.
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"wah wah wah it's not popular in America so it sucks wah wah wah"
Get The Fuck Over Yourselves!!!
Here is a quote from BBC News (they acually report NEWS - not propaganda)
The books, hugely popular in Europe and the rest of the world, have been translated into 50 languages with more than 200 million sold.
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...yes, "covered in balls..." implies that something sticky involving testicles might be in the works...but it is subtly implied see? That makes it funny, or at least mildly amusing.
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MEHHH AGAIN!!!!
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...everyone read the phrase "covered with balls" and chuckled or smiled quietly to themselves. By blurting out "so it's gay porn?" you are stating the obvious and spoiling a small joke that the rest of us were mildly amused by five minutes ago.
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I'll not repeat what Stan Gable and Panda said but just refer to their posts as a good summation of my position.
My quarrel is not with people who don't know who Tintin is, but with those who would seek to make that ignorance a virtue. I seethe at the notion that pop-cultural films can only be made from properties popular in America. The fact is that Tintin will by virtue of its name alone make huge amounts of cash outside of the United States. If it's less popular in America than in the rest of the world it won't really matter in the long run. I suspect this is what pisses people off.
As an answer to your question, I've read Tintin for as long as I can remember - we're talking early 1970s here - and it was actually the American editions I read first and, yes, at the same time I was reading DC and Marvel stuff. -
adaptations already. That Speed Racer garbage ought to be enough to last the world for a few hundred years. Let it go already. I hope this isn't as shitty as King Kong and the second two LOTR movies but I'm quite sure it'll make those three look world class.
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Never end up in a Honduran prison, trust me on that people...
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Sounds good.
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total failure
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Oh wait... wrong Tin Tin.
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...brother, Mr. Bean.
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isnt that already Kate Capshaws Job?
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Never heard of it, so I googled it. Looks like it has all the appeal of a live action "Hi & Lois", yet another thing I really couldn't give a rat's ass about. But if ya want to spend millions on making it, go for it, I'm sure there people out there somewhere that'll pay to see it, just not me. Now a "Hagar the Horrible" movie, hell yea...
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Well he was covered with shit in PJs bloated, corny, and ridiculously overlong King Kong disaster. Admittedly cool set pieces tho, I'll give it that.
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seem to forget that there are a couple of more continents in the world. Just because Tintin wasn't popular (or known, for that matter) in the States doesn't mean that there is no market for it. If it's done right, I'm sure this film will make a bundle in the rest of the world.
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We just don't give a damn. Apparently you don't either, since you're on an American site bitching. Gotta love the internet, connecting people across the world... wait, the internet began in America... it must be bad... Tell ya what, I love Red Dwarf, rustle me up that Red Dwarf movie that never seems to get made and I'll care slightly about what happens in the rest of the world. And bring Billie Piper back to Dr Who. Other than that, not much I want from the rest of the world.
**JBMA and sounding believe this guy is a "tool"**
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So... Because USA (not the entire American continent) don't know (well) this character, this movie will have no market...? Yeah, sure...
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aren't going to greenlight a movie unless, for sure, it makes money here in the states first. Sorry other parts of the world, it's how business is done here in in Big Boy Studio Land.
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If that's the case, then since they HAVE greenlit the film, doesn't that suggest that they think it will make money in the states? Basically I doubt very much they are going to throw millions at it unless they A) are not concerned about the US market as the know that the film will make a lot of money elsewhere, or B) their research shows that enough people in the US have heard of Tin-Tin. Either way, they must believe that the flick is not going to bomb as some here have suggested, and much as I hate the way Hollywood is all about the money, I'd take their research over a few people saying "Well I've never heard of Tin-Tin so it will bomb".
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But isn't TINTIN just some comic strip about a douche bag kid and his little white terrier? Someone please enlighten me! The darkness shrouds.
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Because people will be gawking at that bimbo in Transformers 2.
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Sorry to disappoint you but the internet did NOT begin in America. It was originated by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee working at the Franco-Swiss C.E.R.N.
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Aren't (or at least shouldn't be) predicting box office failure these tin tin movies based on a lack of US-familiarity with the comic books. It's more of an interesting marketing question, or a questioning a bold move by Spielberg and Jackson. There's a reason that big, expensive movies are by and large based on well-known material or established franchises these days--$200 million is a lot to wager on a new concept, especially in an extremely competitive entertainment market. That said, I think that those who are discounting the US market are overstating things a bit. While it's true that the international market for movies is growing in importance, even movies that do extremely well internationally still get anywhere from a third to more typically a half of their receipts from the US. I think that the really intruiging part about this film is that it will likely test whether the international market has grown enough that a big, expensive movie can be marketed *primarily* internationally, with the US as icing on the cake, instead of the other way around.
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the "internet" wasn't really invented by anybody--even the redoubtable Berners-Lee---so much as developed. And lots of people had a hand in it. I understand your point, though.
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You are of course correct. As is Sounding if you want to choose the 1962 'memos' and the early networked computers. For me the www project is closer to what we think of the internet than ARPA. But I doubt that br1947 knows any of this. Too busy making dubious statements of fact...
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Dec 17, 2007 7:23:10 PM CST
Tintin isn't American and you didn't know about it, therefore it
by gringostar
Ignorance wasn't invented by Americans, but they sure did perfect it.
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It sounds crappy so I haven't bothered Wikipedia-ing it, but I guess I can only ignore it for so long with Spielberg and Jackson attached. But seriously, I'm pretty sure I've never heard of it.
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I realize I just perfectly complimented gringostar's post, but I don't really think our ignorance of Tintin is reason enough for a disparaging comment about America in general.
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and you didn't know about it, therefore it must be crap.
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That was a very general comment and unfair to many of you. I take some of it back... not not all of it mind you.
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because he (she?) sounds like a troll.
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I mispelled "scandinavia." Add my name to the long list of those who call upon Herr Knowles to add an edit function to this site.
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With close odds on Zemeckis and maybe Ron Howard as an outside shot.
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...makes me sad. :(
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***I have direct access*** Either that or you have direct access to the AICN database, Oh, and to clarify, I was referencing arpanet, the WWW project didn't happen until the late 80s, almost 20 after the stanford-ucla linkup. Sorry JMBA, the internet is an American inovation, the guys at CERN gave it a major overhaul and greatly improved the accessability, but it began as, and still remains largley American.
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movie was announced. So I went out and bought some of the comics. And I liked them! I believe they call that synergy.
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Dec 17, 2007 10:50:26 PM CST
Mr Gorilla can go fuck himself. Also Spielberg is the best direc
by proman1984
Spielberg is the best director ever, ever in the history of th movies. This will rock.
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What about Skank and T-Bird?
I not Skank. Skank's down there. Skank's DEEEEAAAADD.
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no more serkis.
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I really am hoping for The Blue Lotus to be one of them. If Andy Serkis is going to be Captain Haddock then he had better start refining his ability to insult people.As far as the US being the backbone of worldwide box office, I think that's only true to a degree. Adam Sandler films make little outside the US, but look at perceived flops such as Beowulf and The Golden Compass, which are going to be profitable by the time the worldwide box office is counted.A really good marketing campaign, big name directors, and a reprint of Tintin stories in the run up to the opening of the first film will ensure a tidy profit all round.
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stunning performances all around. Serkis was especially good, I didn't even realize it was him until much later.
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because its fucking gay and we try not liking fucking gay lame-o cartoons like this garbage. Its a joke that these 2 self indulgent douchebag directors have feel the need to have to do anything with the worlds worst cartoon. TinTin Blows you fucking retards, and if you feel this intensly about this lame shit, chances are your'e the type of person who makes sure they get in the front row of homo dick sucking contest. Did you people not have fathers when growing up to smack you in the back of the head for reading such pussy shit, is Ziggy next? TinTin sucks ass.blow me euro fags. you should all be ashamed of yourselves, a bunch of pussies with you little tintin comics and tea. god save the queen, girls. some has to, if all the boys over there had the penises inverted to become fat british cunts so they can finger there twats and talk about TinTin's latest adventure of sticking his thunb up hit little white dogs ass. Grow up ladies, your lame. get over it.
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how you say "Grow up ladies, ..." then come off like some kid who just discovered a keyboard, the internets and how to alienate people. BTW, it's "you're lame" not "your." Hey, I dunno Tin Tin from Double Chin but if SS and PJ are on board, I'm there.
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it has jackson and speilberg directing them....it aint going to have any PR problems come release time....
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I'm from England and he's quite well known over here. We used to have a rather excellent little Tintin cartoon that would show on kid's television which I used to quite dig. I thought he was known everyone but it looks like it was one of Europe's great secrets. Did he never reach America? He went to the moon for gawd's sake!
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Dec 18, 2007 8:18:42 AM CST
I SUPPORT TALKBACKERS WHO DON'T KNOW WHO TIN TIN IS HERE'S WHY .
by bringingsexyback
Cuz I don't know either.
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The TinTin cartoons were the staple diet of any British kid during the Summer holidays in the 1970's. I always looked on TinTin as the equivalent of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy or any serialised character.
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American generalizations or (fill in the blank with country of choice) generalizations? ricarleite: I believe that's DON'T know SHIT. Hey, I most certainly do know Shit! Both brothers, Jack and Jim. Then there's Sistah Fulla and Cousin Dunno (alternate spelling and all). Of course, I had a hell of a time with that Professor Calculus SHIT in high school! I don't even want to discuss how my job PAYS SHIT and my boss is always suggesting I EAT SHIT and DIE. I s'pose I'd better watch it or I'll be ducking a SHIT PIE thrown at my face to cover that SHIT EATING grin. Oh, oh...SHIT!
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Especially since Tin Tin first appeared in 1929! Dam, this character HAS been around a long time. So, any ideas as to which character Serkis is to portray? I mean, other than Snowy?
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The only time I read the books when I was a kid was when all the Asterix were loaned out at the library.Reading Asterix was a riot and then I would read TinTin and it would feel like a wake.
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Are you guys all fucking mental? Another freakin' thread devoted to USA vs Europe??!?!?!?! I've heard of Tintin...believe it or not...I even remember seeing the show and looking at a book a friend owned. Until I changed it (and stopped reading) cause I thought it was boring and not my cup of tea. Is that ok? Is it ok to have a fucking opinion different from yours? Or does that instantly makes me an 'ugly American'? Or ignorant? Or a "douche"? Or wait...since I thought it was boring I must only love mindless Michael Bay popcorn movies right? You cannot be so arrogant as to think that just because you happen to *like* it, that this alone will make it a blockbuster? Right? Anymore than some people have said they don't like it and this will *prevent* it from being a blockbuster? See the point?
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It was just an attempt at humor, why the censorship? That's what's wrong with America. There's censorship and we allow films starring French characters to get made by great directors who have nothing better to make and know that it will tank at the BO. Search your feelings, you know it to be true. FIRE IT UP, FIRE IT UP, FIRE IT UP, FIRE IT UP!!!!
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Dec 18, 2007 7:43:16 PM CST
Nothing wrong with being American and not liking Tintin
by clancy van lustbader
it sure isn't everyone's flavour (see the 'u' in flavour? Bit of a giveaway about my cultural origins there) Nevertheless, it is a flavour a lot of people around the world love so, therefore, it IS a very cool thing that movies are going to be made from this property. I'm also curious to see how they handle the stylised nature of it. That also is cool. Still, as somebody said above me, I preferred Asterix. I'd actually love to see a 3D version of that someday.
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monster house was good. mocap was just used to lend the animated characters movement, and lend the cinematography a hand.
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think that because you are so interested in America, Americans should be interested in you. We're not.
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we know that a lot of Americans don't care about Europe. And the guy who said Tintin is gay is very right, but not more gay than people in thights, spandex an capes.
But anyway, back on topic. Tintin isn't my cup of tea either. But I'll give my heroes Peter Jackson and Spielberg a good chance at making something nice out of it. And Asterix has been made into a couple of live action movies already, which were good fun, so a 3D film about them seems not worth the trouble to me. -
Dec 29, 2007 12:39:45 AM CST
Andy Serkis has got more balls on him than Tony Montana!
by mrmysteryguest
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OK, let me set all U geeks & nerds straight, both Euro & Americano clowns.
I was born in the 60's and I'm from Northern CA and I saw TIN TIN on TV (cartoons) and read TIN TIN books. I don't recall a comic but I'm guessing there was one...
Seems to me you would've had to have lived under a rock or be a Gen Y kid to have missed this one. It deals with a Kid and a White Dog and a cast of other characters who go on adventures and such...
Not like it was that popular or that interesting, cause it wasn't!
And Yes, I was surprised too when I heard PJ & SS were in on this project!!!
Didn't make sense but I'm figuring it'll be Great with them on board! (hope it's not another "Howard the Duck"!!!
Bet alot of U clowns have never heard of that one either!
But I digress, I also am a BIG fan of Serkis and his work so I'm betting he will bring alot to this Movie as well...
I agree with the dude who's tired of all streams becoming Euro vs Amerikiki, really Clowns, enough already!
And that IDIOT jesuslovesU666! Way to go U dumbass American Redneck fool, way to represent Americans!!! Thanks Fokker!
That's not to say that you TIN TIN fans aren't a bit faggy too... and I don't mean Cigarettes!
What the Hell is Asterix?
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