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    Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    I just had a twisted idea.

    Pegg is a 40-year-old plucky boy reporter still traveling the globe with Snowy III, the Twins, Professor C., and Captain Haddock (played by Brian Blessed, duh). I see Tintin as this perpetual man-child trying to bring Gee-golly justice to a modern, scary worldthat has long outgrown his hopelessly naive views.
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    Image of bohica78 bohica78
    01/08/09

    @Grey_Area:Brian Blessed as Haddock, that's pure awesome WIN!!!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/08/09

    @bohica78: Thanks. The rest of my idea is tripe. I finally bothered to read the original article and now know that Pegg plays Thompson and Frost will be Thomson. Makes much more sense given that these two probably finish eachother's sentences in real life.

    I hope they set it in the Mid 20th Century. Otherwise it might turn out like that awful Johnny Quest remake. No.I don't mean The Venture Brothers, now that is a perfect cartoon storm!
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    01/08/09

    @bohica78: "Fly, my blue blistering barnacles! Fly!"
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Grey_Area: Dude the term tripe has been thrown around alot today. I wonder why. Now I'm hungry for some of Mama's homecookin
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/08/09

    @Rasselas: "EDWIN, MY BOY!"


    "It's me Captain, Tintin."


    "TIMTOM!?"


    "No, Tintin."


    "THOMPSON!?"


    "Yes?" "Did you" "Want us?"


    "Oh never mind. C'mon, Snowy let's look for those smugglers."


    "HEY! WHERE IS THAT BLASTED EDMUND GOING!?"

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    Image of bohica78 bohica78
    01/08/09

    @Grey_Area:just turn up that bass when u watch that dvd on your home cinema set and be prepared to be trembled out of your comfy chair
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    01/08/09

    @bohica78: Simon Pegg in short pants, yes.


    This is almost as good as that Elric Goes To Narnia pitch I dreamed up in a Robitussin fugue several flu seasons ago.

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    The best thing about Tintin is watching francophones cringe at the way we Americans pronounce his name.
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    Image of ComicDork ComicDork
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    A compelling case that Tintin is, in fact, Gay.


    [entertainment.timesonline.co.uk]


    Gotta admit, I'm convinced.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/08/09

    @ComicDork: Soundly reasoned, well-supported with evidence, quite convincing.
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    Image of bohica78 bohica78
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    i dont know what he was called in english, but wasn't that professor way ahead of his time? they went to the moon, they had a shark shaped sub, i remember something about mushrooms, the yeti, all sounds pretty sci-fi to me
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    Image of taffy taffy
    01/08/09

    @bohica78:


    He was called Professor Calculus in English and he indeed was way ahead of his time.

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    01/08/09

    @taffy: it was Zonnebloem in dutch, which means sunflower
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    Image of taffy taffy
    01/08/09

    @bohica78:


    That's a nicer name in Dutch. Calculus just means "math"!

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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    01/10/09

    @taffy: no calculus comes from the latin for a series of small stones... which i think it one of the neatest things ever since limits are basically like lining up increasingly diminishing sized pebbles until you almost get to your target...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    Haha. Although this is all great up until we get the nod that it will be written by Christophen Nolan, and directed by Frank Miller


    ________________________

    "When I look down at my hands, I always see blood. Sometimes fresh and glossy, sometimes dried. But always blood. My name is Tintin. I loved a woman once. Her name was daisy. She was a whore, but I loved her still. Until the Captain came and took her. I'd find pieces of her here and there while on his trail. A hand in Bangkok. An eye in Dubai. I stopped sleeping. That's when I started the morphine."

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Hahaha! But you gotta mention his dog
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/08/09

    @crashedpc: "Snowy. My Snowy. You were my only companion. There were days I'd wake up covered in vomit. Days I couldn't remember my name. Days I'd stand in the shower, clenching my hands and remembering the feel of a man's intestines slipping between my fingers. Women are whores. But I always had you Snowy. My constant companion. THe one thing that kept me from slipping into the darkness. It's too bad I had to eat you while climbing the himalayas in search of the Captain."
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: So why haven't YOU directed a movie yet??
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/08/09

    @crashedpc: They won't let me realize my dark, scathing vision of "Teletubbies: After the Bomb".
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: That would be a mind-searingly awesome movie.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Haven't you been tapped to direct SHARK EYES?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/08/09

    @Grey_Area: Yah, but I'm busy finishing my ManBearPig trilogy.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    I thought "the one thing stopping Tintin from being perfect" was that Steven Moffatt had dropped out of the project to oversee Doctor Who.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    well there was the Sharks of the Med with the UFO's....
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    Reporting that it is not sci-fi and that you can't report on it. Clever.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Grrsn Dn: More like, it has people with a sci-fi background working on it, and yet somehow there's not going to be a sci-fi tinge to it.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    01/08/09

    @Grrsn Dn:

    That and SORRY, TinTin IS Sci Fi.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    01/08/09

    In reply to Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?
    I've never really known what the appeal is for Tin Tin. What am I missing?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Belabras: You're missing... uh... a kid and his dog, and some racial controversy back in the day, I believe.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/08/09

    @Belabras: It's a cute detective story for kids, with a little terrier in it. What more do you want?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I think we're looking for story about a genetically modified child soldier with his cyberdog. In space.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    01/08/09

    @Belabras: a soul apparently.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/08/09

    @tetracycloide: heh
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    01/08/09

    @tetracycloide:

    Damn, I knew I misplaced that somewhere.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/08/09

    @Belabras: You want it back? Then give me what was mine to begin with!
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    Image of shaunmcilroy shaunmcilroy
    01/08/09

    @Belabras: one of the best cartoons ever!
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