Those who choose to disregard it because they are unfamiliar with the source material can choose to do so. That is their call.

I even admitted I was only vaguely familiar with the comics. But didn’t say that would make it a crap movie. As well, I am not a “hollywood induced worker” North America is Hollywood induced. Sorry that mainstream doesn’t include the obscure and interesting parts of other cultures. If it did, they wouldn’t be obscure and interesting.

I don’t see the issue here.

And yet… we continue to make movies on 2000+ myths of Achilles, Leonidas, Maximus, Alexander, but can’t spend the time to appreciate a 70 year old comic. Good one.

Someone mentioned this being like Young Indiana Jones – it’s totally true what they said.

I really can’t wait for this movie – I just wish they could use the same voice actor they used for the cartoon series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlvKIq9auP0

North Europe agrees, TinTin is huge in europe ^^. In Finland when you go to library and check the “returned books” for some fairly hard to get popular books you pretty much always find some TinTin’s adventures among them.
Anywho I wonder how Spielberg and Jackson are going to work this one. There was one live action movie made back in 1961 from “Tin Tin in Istanbul”.

HOWEVER… people forget that Europeans are exposed to more countries than Americans since the average Belgian has easy access to several just by getting into the car. That applies to Asian and ex-Eastern Bloc countries too. With the British, we’re an island, we have to look outside, because there isn’t that much going on in our little group of countries.

America is bleedin’ huge! Just because the US is one big country, don’t forget how big it is! It’s pretty much its own sub continent! And trust me, New York is as alien to Alaska is to Ohio as France is different to Russia and China. Yet they are share continents.

It’s ignorant to think a film shouldn’t be made just because you’ve never heard of it. But if you choose not to go see it when it’s made, fine. Personally, I think anyone who enjoyed the Indy Jones films will like this series (if it’s done right). But then I’ve never seen, nor do I intend to see, a Harry Potter movie in my lifetime, as I have no interest.

Everyone else… if Americans haven’t heard of something produced outside their country, why be surprised? I’ve never heard of most of the Saturday Night Live references my wife makes, or the kids show with Mr. Rogers, or any of the country songs which light up the charts in the Midwest. Doesn’t make me ignorant, just someone unexposed to that stuff.

My friend has virtually all the TinTin comics and I’ve read some of them and they are really good.

I’m pretty excited about the movie even though most people here in the U.S. have probably never heard of it. And to the dude who said “screw this” in regards to it not being known to him – dude, grow up.

We should LIMIT what we cover because it might hit on topics you don’t like?

This is your definition of ignorance?

Also, your idea of original ideas is to make a movie out of a 70 year old comic strip. That’s original?

Regardless of how many countless strips this had, it was in majority a European comic strip translated from French.

Again, how is it ignorant that the majority of the North American public wouldn’t know about this? That’s right. Because of all the multitude of topics we write about on this site, we only know about Transformers.

Make all the assumptions you want about North American ignorance, but the fact remains that it was never as popular here as it was in Europe.

Jackson and Spielberg will make sure we know what it is soon.