I was right-! I’m not familiar at all with Tintin but when I saw the trailer, my gut feel was something was off. You can almost never tell when a movie would fail your expectation especially if the creative people behind it are quite good at what they do. But it happens, sometimes a movie’s appeal easily falls into a crack. Sometimes, the main character’s problem just isn’t that engaging.
I rooted for Peter Jackson’s KingKong. The visuals were great. Worth watching Kong battle those T-Rex’s over and over but that’s it. That’s the only scene that excited me. I could never start and finish it ever again. The least interesting part is the third act where Kong dies.
I would probably prefer they “disrespect” the original material. Revise that ending to Kong catching all the planes, chewing the heads of the pilots and escape NY by hijacking a luxury liner ship while holding in his hands his fully naked woman friend. Why not-?
Another one was Coppola’s take on Dracula with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins. It’s my most favorite book ever. I was not so much as expecting everything will be in the movie. But Francis Coppola’s heavy focus on visuals ala Franco Ziffereli, music that jar the brain and less than engaging performance from some of the cast made this so unscary and much lacking in suspense.