The Adventures of Tintin – 3 Buckets
December 22, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
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Leave it to Steven Spielberg to use the most cutting-edge in today’s motion-capture technology–in partnership with WETA Digital, the company that did the special effects on Avatar–to make one of the most gloriously… [Read more]
SDCC 2011: The Adventures of Tintin (Hall H)
July 22, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
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I got into Hall H just in time to see Steven Spielberg take the stage; he has been presented some kind of canned Comic-Con award. Now let’s get into the panel….
- Spielberg on finding Tintin: “I didn’t know a lot about Tintin until I read a French review of Raider’s of the Lost Ark and they kept comparing it to Tintin. I got a French copy and I couldn’t read the words, but I saw their point, the commonality.”
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 2 1/2 Buckets
May 22, 2008 by Danny Baldwin
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“Because something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?” —Bob Dylan, not originally referring to Indiana in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but perhaps looking into the future and prophesizing the potential double-meaning of what would become a popular lyric. To be fair, the original Indiana Jones trilogy was [...]