The title credits. When you guys see this, rave over the title credits, 
You mean the opening title credits?
Oh yes, they’re marvellous
They’re 2D animated and they’re full of references to the comics.
Yes, since I read the first review, everyone is raving about the titles.
That’s pretty nice. I’ll look forward to that when I see Tin Tin. It looks like it’s getting good reviews, but their not “extatic.”
Surprisingly, they were really good when the film first came out in Europe.
I think definedancing is right and the film has suffered because of the unfamiliarity in USA.
I agree with you two. It must be because the character and the comics aren’t really well known in America. From the commercials, I think it looks like a fun little adventure. There were some moments in them that were pretty funny such as the Captain knocking out Tin Tin and Snowy with the orr. I don’t think it’ll make much money but at least it’ll get decent word of mouth.
As long as it makes enough for production costs i’ll be happy.
What’s weird is that Puss in Boots came out in America when Tin Tin came out in Europe. Then Tin Tin comes out here when Puss in Boots gets released there.
I guess thats a little weird . European releases tend to vary a lot, anything from the week after to a year after America, and rarely before America.
It was kind of a pity for us Americans though to wait for Tin Tin to be released two months after the European release. Don’t really know that many Americans wanted to see Tin Tin.
Yeah, looking around blogs and that, it seems as though only animation fans and the few fans of the comics wanted to see it, which is a shame.
It is a shame because it looked like a great film from the commercials. I think the only way Americans remember the character is from an old Saturday morning cartoon.
I’ll be interested to see how much it’s grossed come Monday. I have a feeling that it won’t be too great but theres a good chance it’ll tide over with the $230m already in the bag.
Does anyone remember the film adaptation of The Golden Compass?
Same hee. I see it being at the bottom of the barrel with around $1-10M. You also got to consider the other holiday blockbusters it’s going up aganist. The name sounds familiar to me but I don’t remember a film named that.
The Golden Compass is based on the first of a series of books called His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. They’re quite science-fictiony and the trilogy is pretty popular in the UK, although I’m not sure about worldwide. New Line spent $180m on the film, not including advertising, but it had problems with scripts and casting and finance and was in development hell, much like Tintin was. It went on to make only $70m domestically, but over $300m worldwide. It’s a rare thing to happen, and because of distribution costs, New Line got no money and got merged with Warner Bros. and the planned trilogy was scrapped.
So yeah, how familiar is this looking thus far?
It rings a bell to me now. I think that’s how Tin Tin will probably fare for box office totals. I know the comics are popular overseas but barely anybody knows the character here in America. Like I said, maybe the people who see the film will probably seek out the original comics thus making the character more popular here.
Yes, I saw the film, as I read all three His Dark Materials books.
Anyway, The Golden Compass film had too much problems, while Tintin is supposed to be quite good.
Let’s hope they make the sequels indeed no mater how the box office turns out 
I think it might become a bit of a cult classic in America, perhaps. Scott Pilgrim vs The World has become a bit culty over here because they only released it limitedly because apparantly only comic book geeks would have seen it. 
That’s a good point, Tintin has got better reviews, which will hopefully work in its favour.
You’re right, it could happen something like Scott Pilgrim, which is an awesome film, but got disappointing numbers in USA.
Funny thing that both films involve Edgar Wright.