You hear that, ringy? Bring it, bitch.

No, Calculus. Cuthbert Calculus.

TINTIN will make tons of money. It will be huge here, it will be ENORMOUS overseas. This shit was translated into like 478 languages. Indigenous people in the Arctic will pay to go see this.

Time to turn on the cash machine.

Yuck.

If you both never interfaced properly with Tintin (watching the shitty show doesn't count - it was not a fair representation of the books, and you need to read more than bits and pieces), then neither of you should really comment. You just sound stupid when you say something like I'm a geek, I read a lot of comics but I never heard of Tintin.

The books had intrictate plotlines, action, great characters and humor that worked for both kids and young adults, the bread and butter of the movie business. This is going to be huge, there is just no way around it.

Here's a tip for the rest of you who feel comfortable yelling "what the fuck is Tintin?!": before spouting things like that, take a deep breath and go to wikipedia or something before opening your figurative cakeholes, because you sound really stupid and really lazy. I know it's tempting to go for a "cool" I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude, but trust me -- you're not doing yourselves any favors.

Cobbio: "Yawn-inducingly boring" - excellent turn of phrase. I don't know how I feel about being a fan of something that is not only boring but yawn-inducingly boring, but I will somehow learn to live with this.

photoboy: Ohhh SHIT! You're right! Kill me right now. I'd rather never see a live action Tintin movie than see Shite LaBia wearing knickers and sporting bleached hair, moussed-up tuft and all. Hopefully they'll hire a European actor, but... Yikes, I could see this happening too.

However, Hergé was never a collaborator other than continuing his newspaper job despite Belgium being occupied by Nazi Germany. He hated fascists as much as communists, and he tried to sneak as much subliminal anti-Axis propaganda into his books as he could.

I'm not making excuses for any of it, I am a bleeding heart liberal who finds any kind of racism repugnant. But I also don't go leafing through history to point out the obvious: that people had their heads up their asses many years ago, and still do today.

Obviously, any major motion picture treatment of Tintin won't be culled from any inappropriate material, be it racist, anti-environment, insulting to Greenpeace and PETA, etc. I mean, we've got Spielberg at the helm here - he will use the most politically correct Tintin book of all and still make changes to it to make sure no one is offended.

So relax with the racist accusations. Do you do this every time they make a movie out of a book written before the civil rights movement?

Oh, man, this is a can of worms. The articles in question talk about how the films that were made out of LES AVENTURES DE TINTIN were low key releases. Maybe in the US, but let me tell you, they were a HUGE deal in France and the rest of Europe. It's like saying DARK KNIGHT is a low key adaptation of some comic that some people like a little - typical, myopic reporting from those goddamn la-la-landers. (TINTIN AND THE LAKE OF SHARKS is a masterpiece from my childhood, and the only movie worth a damn – look to the live action adaptations for a good laugh). I'll just say that if Stephen and Peter fuck this up, they'll be burned at the stake - it's that serious. But the idea of mo-cap is absolutely the way to go... what a grand announcement. May I live long enough to see these movies.

As for the racism POV, that's the kind of dumb, dry shit Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would pick out of their crusty asses. You need two things to be a bigot: ignorance, and a bull horn. As a remedy, I suggest reading a history book and shutting the fuck up until you're done.

Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles!

TINTIN - Gaspard Ulliel

HADDOCK - Harrison Ford (Think about it - he could channel his Allie Fox rage from MOSQUITO COAST. He's certainly the right physical type, and it might get his career on track.)

CALCULUS - Harry Shearer

THOMPSON TWINS ("No this is Thompson, with a "P", as in "psychology") - Fuck if I know. Some unknown European twin twits. Or use CGI and use a single actor... Jude Law?

No? Well FUCK YOU then. Who?

Someone else mentioned Andy Serkis for Haddock. Serkis could play any of the roles, save for Tintin.

I'm outta here. You fancy-dress facists, you!

Actually, Ringy did post in one of the Hobbit TBs not too long ago. He seems to only watch AICN for stories on Peter Jackson. And when they appear, he swoops in like a hawk. A very obsessed and deranged hawk.

Here are the posters for both movies (Just remove the spaces in the links):

http://www.gorianet.it/tint in/dessins/toison_g.jpg

http ://www.gorianet.it/tintin/dess ins/orange_g.jpg

Althought good standings at the box office, they never made it in the history books, so the franchise was put on the backburner and never came back. But now with this new movie, I wonder what they're going to do with it?.

NOW the repsonse to Doc.. War of the world shit? You gotta be kiding? It was far from shit, this movie had it all and saying it was shit is totally uncalled for. I don't think any piece of "shit" in this world appreciated your comment just now, being lowered to this movie is insulting to the whole shitty community. No, War of the Worlds was a timeless piece of vomitted river of rat's scrotum filled with Andy Dick's anal juice with a touch of his own man milk.

I think you should appologize to the whole "shit" community for comparing them to that movie. That was totally uncalled for.

Yeah I really liked it when no one else figure out how to change a Starter Cellunoid. Or when the plane crashes and destroys the whole neigborhood but completely misses the minivan... How about the Amry being wipeout but his kid survives the blast... The army guy with all the grenades on him and it takes a mechanic to figure out that this might do some damage to the damn things..

Ok.. I must be an idiot.. For having been fucked out of 10$ to see the damn thing...

I'm guessing you actually have this movie in your "Best movies of all time" DVD rack don't ya? Or maybe you think Andy is one of the best comedians of all time? Yes.. you do have great taste..

Before calling someone a moron, you should look at your room and take down your N'Sync and Justin T posters down..

Now that I think about it, I think Spielberg's pitch went something like this: What War of the Worlds is about at its heart is the coming together of an estranged father and his kids. Sound familiar? Very similar to his pitch on Transformers: "At it's heart, Transformers is really about a boy and his first car." WHAT THE FUCK?!?!