The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

[EthanRunt]

Just back from seeing it at a normo's screening at the O2, gosh this is a little bit good eh?

Sure it's very straight and narrow, simple and slight, but as the title says, it's part of The Adventures Of Tintin, and in this one we get the set-up, the build-up, the climax and a rollicking good set of jokes, scenarios, set pieces and character beats.
I laughed a lot, was constantly stunned by the details involved, and the 3D just let me leap into a living, breathing fictional world.
Glorious cinema, a perfect entertaining film.

[Celini]

sadly my life is a succession of bad decisions!
why did I chose to go to the surprise movie rather than Tintin yesterday

[soonforgotten]

sadly my life is a succession of bad decisions!
why did I chose to go to the surprise movie rather than Tintin yesterday

Because you had no interest in seeing it.

[Celini]

yes, but you liked it and EthanRunt liked it too, usually this means I would have liked it!
this is what happens when I watch trailers.. I should never ever watch trailers!

[weirdfilms33]

Was great to see Prettyxcool and her family (??) and theycallmemrglass again yesterday at the O2. Was also great to meet the lovely a_person for the first time. Even though I planned on saving her a seat, Beate evaded me and went to the balcony, so a_person took my seat instead. Never mind, Beate probably would have died of boredom out of my conversation with Glassy about sci-fi and whatnot!

I loved the film. Absolutely loved it. It was so vibrant and vivid and colourful and commendable. The opening credit sequence was enormous fun and I thought the motion-capture technology worked really really well with Tintin's world. Thompson and Thomson had me in stitches in their incompetence as did the delusional and alcoholic Haddock. And my oh my, the action set-pieces! Despite some pacing problems towards the end, that sequence in Morocco was jaw-dropping. I've lost faith in Spielberg in recent films, mostly due to his producing credits (Transformers movies, Eagle Eye) and partially down to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but this has reaffirmed my faith in him and pushes my expectations high for the upcoming War Horse. Of course, the 3D was rubbish, but I've ranted about that elsewhere. 8/10

I must confess, I've never read the books myself, but this has inspired me. I've put "The Secret of the Unicorn" on my Amazon Christmas list and look forward to seeing what captivated Spielberg all those years ago.

Also, since there's no dedicated thread to this, I thought I'd share my experience yesterday evening at Matrix Live. This event wasn't a stage show like Batman Live. In fact, it was a high-definition screening of The Matrix accompanied by a live 85-piece orchestra. It was fantastic. I'll leave most of the write-up to a post in my blog which may appear later in the week (which involves the fact that I won the tickets and had a VIP drinks reception beforehand!) but it was absolutely fantastic to experience Don Davis' score reaching a crescendo in the middle of the awesome action scenes.

A great day overall.

[prettyxcool]

Also, since there's no dedicated thread to this, I thought I'd share my experience yesterday evening at Matrix Live. This event wasn't a stage show like Batman Live. In fact, it was a high-definition screening of The Matrix accompanied by a live 85-piece orchestra. It was fantastic. I'll leave most of the write-up to a post in my blog which may appear later in the week (which involves the fact that I won the tickets and had a VIP drinks reception beforehand!) but it was absolutely fantastic to experience Don Davis' score reaching a crescendo in the middle of the awesome action scenes.

I so wanted to win that too! I can just imagine what the live music would have been like. Well done weirdfilms! Lucky you!

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Yay well done, Weirdy, I'm rather shocked PXC missed out on that (breaking news surely?!) but you totally deserve to win. I would have pa*d to go to an event like that if I knew about it, gutted. I went to something similar but for Star Wars at the O2 couple years ago.

[raj101]

I cant wait to see this now. Its hightime we had something more than a crappy tomb raider movie to fill the waits between Indiana Jones movies.

[Pchibber1]

Huge comic book fan in my youth and whilst the CGI effects were admirable, the overall movie dragged a bit and I thought it was average at best.

[prettyxcool]

Was great to see Prettyxcool and her family (??)

oops, didn't get back to respond to this! It was just my lovely mum.