Me!
I really wish Spielberg will pick that up for a later adaptation.
My other wishes are 'The Calculus Affair' and 'Destination Moon'.I always found Destination to be better than Explorers on the Moon and i think it would make a brilliant film.
What do you all think? Any other picks?
YEAH! All of them would be nice for making 2 more movies and thus a trilogy after this one. No doubt Calculus will be in the next one so we'll see.
shareFirst half to two thirds of Flight 714 is probably one of the best Tintin-adventures. But once the aliens show up... OMG. Even when I first read the comic as a 10-year-old, I thought the last third of the book was pretty silly.
S.
And Herge should have at least let Tintin be the sole member of the group be entrusted to remember the aliens at the end!
shareI always Flight 714 was once of the weakest adventures along with the Picaos, I mean Tintin, now insists Snowy to be kept on a lead? Aliens? Not to mention his new pair of pants and 15 or pages of Tintin's absence because he preferred to stay home.
After his moon adventure it really jumped the shark, it was all downhill only except Tintin in Tibet wasn't too bad.
The Calculus Affair is one of the best, I think it's really underrated. I want to see him adapt that one too.
shareYup... some of my favorite ones are from the 1950s.
The thing is that any of the truly great stories (Blue Lotus, Black Gold, Red Sea Sharks, Calculus Affair) don't really lend themselves to a "Spielbergian" adaptation.
The reason why I loved Tintin as a kid was that despite the odd bit of slapstick humor that was thrown in, the stories were more or less "serious" and didn't feel like the usual "kids stuff".
I mean: "Black Gold" (originally) started off amidst the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, "Blue Lotus" featured the Japanese occupation of mainland China and "Red Sea" dealt with modern-day slave trade.
I would love a new Tintin movie to cut *way* down on the silliness and ramp up the "serious" adventure aspect that the original stories always had.
A good start would be to minimize the role of the Thompson-twins.