I honestly can’t believe that Stephen Moffat was the writer.
He wasn't exactly THE writer. He was one of three writers.
I was really excited when I thought it was a team-up between three fantastic minds: Stephen Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish. Then it was revealed to me (and do correct me if I'm wrong on this) that the script was pretty much passed off to each of them one by one.
(Then again, apparently the film is a combination of three different Tintin stories, so perhaps they worked on a story each? In any case, the problem seems to have been combining the three stories into one cohesive plot.)
I don't really see how much time Moffat could have spent on this alongside overseeing Doctor Who and Sherlock.
True, but I still reserve the right to be disappointed that he would attach his name to something with such a weak storyline, regardless of how much input he may or may not have had. And I don't know any of Cornish's work, but Wright was involved in the writing of several good movies, so neither of them have an excuse for how poorly the writing of TinTin turned out either. Any one of them could have stopped and insisted on making the story better. I just brought up Moffat because I'm very familiar with his work and have always regarded him highly and it doesn't matter how big a part he had, he let me down with this.
Sounds about righted_rexApril 5 2012, 14:32:19 UTC
"[B]eautiful animated work and then just churn it out with a crap storyline" sums up the movie pretty well (if you're interested in prejudice reinforcement, my review says much the same thing).
That said, I do urge you to give the original comics a try. At their best, Herge's Tintin are a wonderful mixture of adventure, comedy and, sometimes, even a little pathos. His characters are broadly-drawn and much larger than life, but still believable in context - or at least, we're more than willing to suspend our disbelief.
But about the movie, it's a damned shame such beautiful artwork went to waste.
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He wasn't exactly THE writer. He was one of three writers.
I was really excited when I thought it was a team-up between three fantastic minds: Stephen Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish. Then it was revealed to me (and do correct me if I'm wrong on this) that the script was pretty much passed off to each of them one by one.
(Then again, apparently the film is a combination of three different Tintin stories, so perhaps they worked on a story each? In any case, the problem seems to have been combining the three stories into one cohesive plot.)
I don't really see how much time Moffat could have spent on this alongside overseeing Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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And I don't know any of Cornish's work, but Wright was involved in the writing of several good movies, so neither of them have an excuse for how poorly the writing of TinTin turned out either. Any one of them could have stopped and insisted on making the story better.
I just brought up Moffat because I'm very familiar with his work and have always regarded him highly and it doesn't matter how big a part he had, he let me down with this.
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That said, I do urge you to give the original comics a try. At their best, Herge's Tintin are a wonderful mixture of adventure, comedy and, sometimes, even a little pathos. His characters are broadly-drawn and much larger than life, but still believable in context - or at least, we're more than willing to suspend our disbelief.
But about the movie, it's a damned shame such beautiful artwork went to waste.
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