Tintin fans: Are you looking forward to the Speilberg movie, have you already decided it's a travesty or are you going to reserve judgment until you see it?

I’ll reserve my judgment until I see it, but… I read all the comics a million times, and I’m not entirely sure that the movie will do them justice. In my opinion, those cartoons didn’t do it, and neither did that horrendous live action film. But I may be surprised.
I like that it follows several books in the one movie, but I’m willing to bet a lot of fun elements from the books will be left out. Or maybe they’re using those as basis for a re imagining. I’d hope that’s the case though, since I don’t see how properly making a movie about more than one of the books can be anything good. This movie better not be just some pretty imagery thing. I’m sick and tired of some movies existing just to show off technology. I fuckin get it, I don’t care. Give me story and depth. They better not screw up Tintin.
And goddammit, Tintin’s dog is named Milou, not Snowy.

Looking forward to it? Not particularly, but I’ll still check it out. I just don’t have much faith lol. However I have to recognize that it looks interesting. And with Spielberg at the helm, we do have hope.

Spielberg loves Tintin, so I have hopes he will make it right.
The trailer makes me worry, though.

28 years in the making. I am disappointed.

I never read the comics & wasn’t a massive fan of the animated series, but the movie looks lots of fun to me. The kids & I will see it in the next week or so.

Well, I had been avoiding looking, not terribly thrilled at the idea of Spielberg doing a Tin Tin film. I just looked at the trailer on the official site you linked above.

I’ll go see it when it comes out. It looks like they did some good jobs on some things, but I thing basically the whole think is an artistic mistake, and a pollution of a brand that is great by itself, and to which this looks like it will add a lot of generic Hollywood CGI animation horse crap.

The existing Tin Tin stories are fantastic and slapstick enough without adding insanely ridiculous over-the-top nonsense like in the trailer. The great thing about the Tin Tin books is that they mostly make some sense and show intelligent and workable solutions to many problems. They give some hope that a smart plucky kid could overcome frightful adventures by coming up with smart things to do. In this Spielberg version, apparently frantic action that defies the laws of physics and human agility is needed. An age of sail sea battle is not enough, no, it has to take place during a thundering typhoon, with one ship being fantastically lifted out of the water and swung over the deck of the other in a way that defies logic, geometry, engineering, and all sense. And ya, we need to drive a motorcycle off a roof, have it break in the air and yet be able to slide down power lines using the handlebars… yep, really needed to add that. I’m sick of Hollywood movies not getting that it undermines the believability of the entire film when crap like that happens.

What I dislike most though is that it will confuse Tin Tin by adding a new film and who knows what supporting products that will be based on this new frenetic action nonsense rather than the old charming intelligent stuff.

Bleh.