I know a lot of people that go to the cinema starting by saying, “do you want to go and see a film?” “Yeah, alright. What do you want to see?” I’m not like that, I generally only go to see a film that I particularly want to see. And top of that list for almost a year has been Tintin.
I grew up reading the books, occasionally getting one for a birthday and borrowing the rest from the library. I saw a fair few of the animated TV series (indeed, I’m watching it now) but the books have always been the best story-teller of the franchise.
So what am I hoping of from the film? Well, anything to spend more time in the world of Tintin. It brings the Tintin stories to more people and means that I now have a really cool poster on my wall.
I’m also really excited about it because of the technology behind it. It was originally planned as live-action with a CG Snowy but Peter Jackson suggested to Spielberg (big names ahoy) that it would be better as entirely CG, using motion capture. As far as I know, this is the first film to be made like this to such an extent and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Well I’m off to the cinema now. I’ll post later, with what I think of the film, plot, CG, 3D and writing in comparison to the books. Tootle-pip.
