No but genuinely that should make more bande dessinee movies. I'd be pretty happy with a Gaston or Spirou movie.
The guns didn't make "pan pan!" sounds so that kind of ruined the movie for me.
As a lifelong Tintin fan, the Tintin movie is one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had in a cinema. I cannot word how much it failed for me.
Its a perfecly fine movie, and if you expected more than that you have entirely overestimated Tintin.
I like Tintin a lot. I have a stupid amount of Tintin stuff from when I was a kid. I don't think it's a very good adaption of the source material and I don't think the characterisation was right for most of the characters.
Idk to me Tintin is an adventure with a weird European sense of humour. I felt like the movie failed at communicating that kind sense of adventure I felt from the comics and cartoons and it missed a lot of the humour imo.
The only jokes it doesn't really incoporate are Haddocks cursing and the weird inverse sentences of the Dupont/ds. (They make one of those jokes, but it was basically a verbal tic for the characters in the comics) Otherwise it pretty much nails it. Tintin is an overly serious character in a world thats slightly nutty. I mean most of his interactions with Haddock are 1:1 adaptations of lines from the comic, just from different issues.
Edit: Actually I don't think they ever do the "with a P as in psychology/Without a P like in Venezuela" gag either, but that one was always kinda lame.
I suppose you could argue it's more of an action movie than a travelogue the way early tintin is. But later Tintin loved itself some violent climaxes.
Hey, I'm glad you liked it. I've seen it multiple times and despite being a huge Tintin fan I would say it's one of the few films that I would honestly say I hate. And I've given it multiple chances but nope. Just doesn't work for me at all. There are very very very few things I even consider halfway decent in it. I want to like it. I really really want to like it. I just really, really don't.
I know a lot of people love it and are dying for a sequel and I genuinely wish I could have loved it the same. I was so excited for it. But it remains one of my most disappointing film memories. Like I own Tintin t shirts, jigsaws, action figures and plush toys. I don't own a copy of the film or any tie in toys/games/etc.
Actually I just realised that they do make a lot of BD movies and they all fucking suck except for Tintin. Shame
The early books are very racist, especially the one in the Congo. Hergé later disavowed that one I'm p sure. Later ones are still racist, but less so. Like, a normal amount of racism for a white yuropean
edit: whoops nvm it was originally published in a catholic fascist paper
Yeah Tintin is hella problematic. However because of that Euopean leftists who grew up with it have spent a lot of time reclaiming it. For example adopting Tintin and Captain Haddock as a gay rights symbol or creating bootleg Tintin comics where he's an anarchist such as Tintin: Breaking Free where Tintin takes part in the UK printers strike and educates the reader on radical anarchist theory. There's also a few others, one where Tintin ends up over throwing Mussolini and another where Tintin and Haddock liberate Vietnam from the Americans and French.
Unfortunately in recent years, the extreme European right has been attempting to "reclaim" Tintin as a glorified Nazi symbol. You can find images of Tintin killing minorities on Stormfront - here's a good article about everything going on with that; https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tintin-far-right-fascism
A lot of Euro comics were super racist. Tintin had some extremely racist early issues but later they became better. I remember there was a later issue where Tintin actually helps a revolutionary character who seems to be some kind of Castro/Che analogue, although in the end it seems to kinda do the liberal "they're all the same anyways" in the end. Asterix wasn't always exactly racist but like half of the humour came from stereotypes. Usually it was just stuff like Viking dogs barking in Nordic script, Egyptians speaking in hieroglyphs, British having massive teeth and taking breaks from battles to drink tea, Swiss being neutral and obsessed with keeping time very accurately, some self deprecating stuff about how French become very angry about past losses and pretend like they didn't happen, and other stuff that doesn't age that badly. But then there was stuff that did age poorly, like the way they drew black people. But in the end everyone except the Romans ended up being "good". Generally I think Asterix was the best out of the popular euro comics, there were much worse both in terms of quality and racism.
The most recent Asterix movie though was extremely uncomfortable, they had a character that was clearly supposed to be some kind of Pakistani immigrant/refugee and the portrayal was super racist, especially in context.
I liked Tintin a lot too, I don't think it deserves some of the hate it is getting.
Personally I wish we finally got an Asterix movie that isn't garbage.
