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Hugo - it was simply beautiful and wonderous.
Hugo - it was simply beautiful and wonderous.
The Adventures of Tintin - amazing; the fluidity and the detail really deliver. Unfamiliar with Tintin, really, so I don't know how true to the original this is. Mrs. Hood liked it a lot. Younger Hoods didn't buy in as much as we did. Is the story set in the 1930s? The vehicles seem to indicate that era. Weren't jeeps and bazookas products of the 1940s? And the tank had modern lines, as opposed to those in the 30s. Captain Haddock looked like they computer-mapped the face of Tommy Lee Jones. When I first saw Tintin with his flip of red hair I thought that PeeWee Herman and Carrot Top had a child.
The motorcycle chase has that one long unbroken shot that is mind-blowing (have I exceeded my superlatives allotment?)
The first book was published in 1930, the last in 1986. The books stay reasonably consistent in style, though certain elements creep in over time that aren't 1930s (for example, in one of the books, I forget which, there are some very clear depictions of an early Triumph Herald 1200 (late 50s). My take on Tin tin world was that it was one like our own, set in a parallel mid-Twentieth century that didn't exactly conform to our own. In essence, it's the perfect Dieselpunk world where the best elements of 30s style never went away, but without rejecting the best of the new either.
Currently, "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World." As a kid, I used to watch it with my dad whenever possible; it was his favorite.
And there is a reason I call karaoke, "scary-okie" and that's because it just shouldn't be allowed in public!
That is definitely true. That Voice. There are times I cannot watch it because she makes me
want to commit injury to myself or the television.
Ten penny nails!
lol lol Ethel Merman drives anyone who watches insane.