Althouse: "2 dots of ink from a Belgian cartoonist’s pen can express more wit and artistry..."

October 16, 2011

"2 dots of ink from a Belgian cartoonist’s pen can express more wit and artistry..."

"... than £82 million of the best 3D special effects Hollywood can conjure."

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: STOP! You should not inform people about this other imposter Tintin. The real Tintin is Spielberg's. It always has been. There is no Belgian version; and if there is mention of one, it is a fake.

Keep linking to this shit and you can expect to get sued for copyright infringement. Or maybe Spielberg will ask the U.S. Regime to take you out in a drone attack, since you are clearly a threat to god-given American commercial interests.; 10/16/11, 7:21 PM
edutcher said...: Never a huge fan of Spielberg (the blood fetish and the "make the girls squeal with something gross" fetish get old fast), I can only imagine what he does with it.

Some things really are better left alone.; 10/16/11, 7:51 PM
ricpic said...: From the review:

...even if Jamie Bell wasn't so monotonously earnest as Tintin, he'd still look about as conscious as a bollard with a quiff.

A bollard with a quiff. Haven't the foggiest what that translates to in American-English. Not particularly curious to find out either. But I am encouraged that all the technological advances in the world still haven't succeeded in erasing our quirky and endearing differences.; 10/16/11, 8:13 PM
R.L. Hunter said...: A bollard is a post used to prevent traffic from entering someplace like a bike path and a quiff is Tintin's hairstyle.; 10/16/11, 8:34 PM
The Dude said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/16/11, 8:42 PM
ricpic said...: My goof. I thought it was Brit slang for sure. Thanks, R.L.; 10/16/11, 8:45 PM
Joan said...: I could never understand the passion some had for the Tintin books. Asterix the Gaul -- now there was a comic hero well worth reading. None of this earnest cub reporter stuff -- just great word play, clever characters, and the perennial Gaulish underdogs trouncing their Roman occupiers, once again.; 10/16/11, 8:52 PM
Balfegor said...: the perennial Gaulish underdogs trouncing their Roman occupiers, once again.

Pah! Gallia pacata est. Or erat, I suppose, the Gallic provinces having fallen into grievous disorders since the collapse of imperial authority.; 10/16/11, 9:22 PM
YoungHegelian said...: I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but I think Peter Jackson's best work was & will always be LotR.

When I saw the abortion that was his re-make of King Kong, I knew that this was a man who would never, ever, again be convinced to properly edit his films. He was just lucky that LotR demanded a sprawling canvas, because it's the only way he knows how to paint.; 10/16/11, 9:59 PM
Ann Althouse said...: My favorite Peter Jackson movie is "Heavenly Creatures."; 10/16/11, 10:14 PM
MadisonMan said...: He's dead on that the eyes are just not well done in the linked-to clip. Rather reminds me of Thunderbirds from back in the 60s.; 10/16/11, 10:17 PM
David R. Graham said...: One of Liszt's contemporary partisans commented publicly to the effect that a cymbal clash by Liszt carried more artistic content than a symphony by Brahms.

Moral: everything is incomparable.; 10/17/11, 1:49 AM
Bob_R said...: Never was a big fan of Tintin. On the other hand there are a lot of good comics and there are not a lot of watchable hybrid animation movies. The trailer looks just awful.; 10/17/11, 7:21 AM