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Comment:Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

… better to be uptight with political correct thought and attitude. I hate PC. But I understood criticism that The Temple of Doom is perhaps racist by denigrating the culture and race to condense into the adventure yarn. There’s The Adventures of Tintin with racist elements as well and yet I still enjoy the classic comics by overlooking the controversial …

Comment:Profondo rosso

…).”profondo rosso” begins on a stage where some kind of medium (Macha Meril) sees horrible things.People who have read HergĂ©’s adventures of Tintin will notice the similarities between this scene and those pages in “the seven crystal balls” where Tintin and Haddock are watching Mrs Yamilah in a music hall.”Opera” ‘s first scene also would take place in a…

Comment:The Riddle

…distracting and inappropriate music. The plot is ludicrous: The lost Charles Dickens story supposedly helps our hero solve a series of modern murders, but so would a copy of Herge’s Adventures Of Tintin, since the link between Dickens and Jones is more non-existent than tenuous. And we have the ridiculous premise that a would-be investigative journalist …

Comment:Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Crystal that answers that universal question. It’s time to ask yourself what YOU believe in!*** This review may contain spoilers *** The comics and the globe-trotting, adventure serials of the 1930s, 40s and 50s have never been so vividly weaved together and brought to life as in the Indiana Jones adventures. Harrison Ford always embodied …

Comment:Apocalypto

…, fearless Mayan hunters and “Hokuto no Ken-like” villain Mayan warriors (this movie still wears the mark of “Mad Max”).But if the movie is a classical Disney adventure movie, sometimes a little childly (see the eclipse scene, for instance, directly inspired by the one in the comic : “Tintin et le temple du soleil”), it’s still rather bloody and even a …

Comment:Les aventures extraordinaires d'Ad

… ho courage that would give Indiana Jones a run for his ancient gold. Those who grew up on a childhood staple of Tintin and Snowyx27;s adventures could definitely appreciate AdxE8;le.In fact, the movie itself is more of a funny action-adventure flick than a contemporary comic book adaptation, so those who are looking forward to a gritty dark tone a la …

Comment:The Lady Vanishes

…. As Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) tells him “Pacifist eh? Won’t work old boy. Early Christians tried it and got thrown to the lions!” Despite being very much a film of its time, The Lady Vanishes still holds up today as a great suspense adventure, not to mention a great comedy. It has so many great elements, the dialogue, the direction, as well as great …

Comment:Thunderbirds

… Alan Tracey spends most of his time at boarding school dreaming of being involved in daily action and adventure like his father and elder brothers, who make up the international rescue group known as the Thunderbirds. Home for Spring Break Alan gets in trouble for messing round with his friends Tintin and Fermat in his eagerness to be a Thunderbird. …

Comment:Thunderbirds

…Tracy Island base, the Thunderbird craft and their launch sequences are lovingly visualised with suitable homage to the original designs and in fact reminded me greatly of Frank Bellamy’s stylised renditions of the craft in the 60s comic book versions of their adventures and which were my first glimpse of the Thunderbirds in colour (and incidentally the

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