Let's have a Eurocomics adaptations thread
>literally a generic action movie with a Tintin coat of paint
I know this movie is targeted to Americans but Tintin adventures don't involve explosions aplenty and don't end with bigger than life climatic fights. This isn't supposed to be fucking XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
At least it's visually impressive, but not muh fucking Tintin.
>targeted to Americans
Which was a mistake, since Americans didn't care for it and it made way more money in countries that actually care about Tintin.
But Hollywood only cares about the Americans, so that sequel they were planning isn't getting made.
>that sequel they were planning isn't getting made.
"After that next project I'm doing right now" - Peter Jackson 21012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
And to be fair we Euros aren't exactly exempt of making shitty comics adaptations.
Let me post a couple to drum up some discussion.
>basically your run of the mill Terrence Hill movie except he has a smart horse
Tintin was a real cutie in the movie, though.
>hire guy who can only play himself as Asterix (he's nothing like Asterix)
>miss opportunity to hire English actors to blay the Britton parts and potentially getting international reach (although they tried and failed that with the previous one with Germans of all people)
>instead hire French actors doing a bad English accent
>Depardieu at his laziest yet
>also it's boring, unfunny and generally annoying
>on the 5th biggest budget ever for a French film
>bretty good and fun action movie, you just gotta ignore that it it's nothing like the comics.
Eh it is a second to second visual medium, they're always gonna up the visuals.
And really a crane fight is pretty ridiculous but no more than a kid going off to fight a counterfeit ring inside an Egyptian pyramid cause of a can of crabmeat (that's what the spark of that comic was, right? It's been a while).
Forget that shit, who's hype for the Zombillenium movie?
Hey, that's how I describe Constantine.
The issue is not that the crane fight is outlandish, it's that it's tonally off. We're supposed to be awed by huge mechanical things clashing loudly with each other to determine the ending of the movie, that's really more Transformers or Fast and Furious than Tintin.
Most Tintin fights are usually low key and low stakes and look more like Kato fighting dudeweedlmao in Gondry's Green Hornet than what we got in the movie.
Also dem Bourgoin tiddies
I always thought it was less about marketing to Murcia and more Speilburg Speilburging all over it
Constantine is an excellent adaption of the material for a WASP audience with a lead actor who is the best impersonator of dopeheads working in the industry.
If they kept any of the britishness at all, the movie would've ended up in the foreign film-section next to The Full Monty and Son of Rambow and wasting the actor's talents was out of the question as well.
>mummie be like
>this is what I studied nuclear physics for.
Asterix: Le Domaine des Dieux was a much better Asterix movie. It was in fact better than the comic imo since it took the "Gauls being assimilated by the Romans" all the way.
All these Asterix movies seem annoying as fuck. Maybe it's french humor or maybe the books just don't translate to live-action but I've never been able to sit through one to the end.
I can understand the "not muh Tintin" attitude, but I still really liked the movie for feeling like the Indiana Jones movie I didn't know I wanted to see. That chase scene in Bagar done in one single shot was amazing.
There was also a movie about The Daltons, right? I recall seeing a clip of it where the gag was that Lucky Luke's shadow is sentient and moves on its own, doing silly things in the background while Luke does other stuff; completely missing the point of the "Faster than his own shadow" gag imo.
The first live action movie was good, the second was also relatively good even if Jamel Debbouze was playing himself instead of Numerobis. After that the trailer for Asterix at the Olympic Games make me lose all interest in the live action movie, it seems that the movie was just made to be a bunch of cameo and not to be an Asterix movie.
Only the second one is funny.
Yeah with Eric et Ramzy and it was a German coproduction like Asterix at the Olympics. There was also another Lucky Luke movie with Dujardin. Not sure where the scene you're talking about comes from as I've seen neither.
Has anyone seen the Dujardin one? How is it?
Jackson's taking his time on it because the Hobbit's production didn't go well and wanted to develop new technology at WETA to make the films more naturalistic and make green screening less of a problem. Tintin was done with all three principals (Serkis, Bell and Craig) on set and being able to interact with each other via mocap so it will probably be less of a problem.
The Crane fight was really quick and almost anti-climactic though. It was trying to service both. Though plenty of Tintin comics have ended with police chases and shootouts so it's not out of character for the books for a big climax. It just felt weird
Have Europeans ever made an inexplicably shitty adaptation of an American property?
That's half of Italy's film production, although it's usually more movie adaptations than comics.
Although you've got your Italian and Turkish Spider-Men too.
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um. Italian Spiderman is Australian and it's a parody.
Huh, I had no idea.
It looks so similar to honest to God Italian B movies that were everywhere in the 80s.
>because the Hobbit's production didn't go well
>crying Ian McKellen.jpg
it wasnt bad, but yeah it wasnt really tintin.
im glad they didnt shy away from the darker side of the comics though
eg; the murder, gunplay, alcoholism etc
if they do end up making a sequel i hope they so the crystal balls story line
why is aus parody so god-tier?
Because their country is a parody.
>ywn murdered in your bed by this baby-faced assassin
They're all bad and I like Astérix...
Even as a kid, I knew the first one was bad.
He looks british as heck.
i almost wish they hadnt gone so realistic with it. the original designs has very exaggerated features and it was fine because it was a comic, but it really doesnt translate well to real life
>not 2d
It was bound to be trash from the beggining
Because taking the piss out of people is our national pass-time. Though to be fair, Italian Spiderman and Danger 5 were both made by the same studio.
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But the ending wasn't determined by the crane fight.
It was determined by Haddock turning down the bottle and instead taking the badguy down by using it as projectiles.
The ending was determined by him knowing about the smallest lil mistake on a map, for he was a true man of the sea like a Haddock should be.
Good news user. In interviews they said Prisoners of the Sun would be one of the sequels. I think they also showed interest in adapting Destination Moon, which was always one of my favorites as a kid because SPACE.
I've always enjoyed the Dredd adaptations.
>Most Tintin fights are usually low key and low stakes
I see what you mean but that's not always true, especially in the late comics. flight 714 is basically a non stop gunfight and the tintin crew barely escaping from an erupting volcano thanks to aliens
That include no helmet Stallone and his comic relief sidekick Rob Schneider?
Because shit posting is an Australian pasttime.
You better believe I enjoyed that movie. I loved it as a kid who regularly read 2000AD, so it has nostalgia appeal as an adult, and I AM THE LOOAOWRGHH
YEOU BETRAIID TEH LAUW
the machine guns and that last fight was pretty weird,
Pretty damn beautiful movie aside anyway, using rotoscoping
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>the advemtures of the uncanny valley
I was never a big fan of most of the latest ones desu.
Golden age I'd say is from Pharaohs to Tibet.
I remembered when first screenshots were out for it, people were weirded out how they were trying to make realistic look with the original design proportions.
And I was amazed how quick you get used to it when watching. They really pulled the art off perfectly.
714 is a fucking fever dream.
Herge got weird at the end.
>This wasn't used in the opening of the movie
It's like they wanted to be dropped instantly.
>Prisoners of the Sun
EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC
Let's see how many people know this one
It's not exactly Apocalypto.
At least it's not the one in the Congo
This felt like a legitimate fever dream.
Actually when you think about it, there is a surprising amount of paranormal stuff in tintin comics
I agree but 714 was the first tintin I read so it's hard to dislike it for me
I do.
>Jan Kounen wanted to make a movie about his experiences with chamanism
>let's just shove that shit into Blueberry and have minutes-long hallucinations scenes
2dudelmao4me, I kinda hated the experience.
Beautifully shot though, as usual with Kounen.
>Prisoners of the Sun
>Calculus wasn't even introduced in the first film
For what purpose
Is that a offical image? It looks like a school boy got wild with photoshop
I don't know if the English one is official, but one of the French posters was the same.
Not an adaptation but the art style is inspired by a french comic. A good but weird movie
>wants adaptations
>doesnt even posts proper ones
Most of the books are made for TV but Siberia one got into the Cinemas in some places because it had a budget.
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>Is that a offical image? It looks like a school boy got wild with photoshop
That also describes the actual movie quality.
Apparently these books are hot shit in France, but whatever made them special was clearly lost here.
There weren't even any good knife fights, which I'm pretty sure is the whole reason to make the guy a blade expert.
I felt the same way at first, but after a while I didn't even notice it anymore.
If i recall the comics Largo was a bastard child of a billionare and he ran away with gypsy circus when his dad started shoving tutors up his ass.
I still need to watch this.
>Depardieu at his laziest yet
Did that fat fuck actually renounce his citizenship to beat his second DUI charge and become Albania or some shit, wherever the Stranger was from?
I'll admit, the guy can act, but you're right, he's long past caring about anything and resting on his laurels.
Speaking of movie adaptations they did make a shitty Dylan dog one. Cookie cutter Alone in the Dark tier movie.
Original comic is something between exploitation and satire with alot of surreal stuff in it.
On the other hand comic writer did make his own movie that is really good and connected to original work in its themes. Totally worth a watch.
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There was also a TV show adaptation in the 2000s. It was bad, but entertaining enough.
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>those early 2000's haircuts
The series is one of the better thrillers on the market. At its core it's about Batman being a heterosexual with friends and an actual business rather than a lonely gay furry with a credit card.
Van Hamme also wrote a series about Rambo as a heterosexual.
>Episode 1: The Hair
Wait which one is that?
I remember his "what if Jason Bourne was a heterosexual" though.
It's been a while since I watched the movie and read the comics but I remember it being pretty faithful in spirit.
I think I get you when you talk about it being bigger in scale but I just took that as part of being a cinematic adaptation, the rest of the adventures, characters and mystery felt pretty Tintin to me.
It didn't feel like a Tintin comic but it did feel like a Tintin theatrical film.
>Cemetary Man
Muh mugga. That movie is fucking ace.
>American film company only cares about America
What a shock
You haven't been paying very close attention if you think it's always the case.
I agree. I really don't like what they did with Haddock.
>Haddock doesn't smoke or drink
Into le trash it goes.
Wayne Shelton. Same origin story as Rambo, different outcome due to Shelton not being gay.
I hope they squeeze Rastapopolous in there somewhere.
And no Groucho for obvious reasons.
The fuck are you talking about, he drank like it was going out of style, it was the point of his whole character arc.
Believe it or not but most people don't need to actually see a person have sex to know what their sexuality is.
Are you sure that you didn't watched a censored version?
Yes, they really go out on their way to make it clear that Rambo and his bros are queers. And Batman literally had to get drugged and raped before he had a biological child with a woman. Other than that, he is generally shown using them as beards in his current incarnation.
This looks like a sequel to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Which, I suppose, it certainly could be; I don't recall the name of the comic sequels right off hand.
Still haven't seen this one, too afraid of massive disappointment.
Dellamorte Dellamore is worth watching for the sex scene alone.
It's an okay movie though while League is terrible. Zardoz is a better bad movie featuring Sean Connery (who seems to have a real knack for picking terrible movies to feature his person)
Burger here and just wanna say that whatever Americans hollywood aims their movies at don't exist because, other than marvel movies, Americans aren't going to see the latest Hollywood turd.
On a side note, I do like this movie myself.
But he spends half the movie drunk
Snowpiercer feels like a Korean film.
Good concept but story is shoddy as fuck.
Also whole idea would be superior with an icebreaking ocean liner with different deck levels.
Which was nice to see, but less of the roman family would be better.
Even the really early asteroid movies with their shoddy animation were better because they were at least comfy.
itt: mistakes
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Looks like a porn parody.