1. Spielberg + PJ assures Tintin will be all kinds of awesome.
2. Since it's visually driven, it can be huge in 3D like Tron/Avatar.
3. Sherlock Holmes 2 will decrease slightly since the original wasn't totally very well-recieved.
4. Chipmunks will drop significantly like most kiddie sequels did this year.
5. Random trend but, December has always been dominated by a non-sequel since 2005, except last year when True Grit was just 1m shy of Tron Legacy.

6. The point I'm most confident in: Crazy shit and huge upsets consistently happen in December.


Who's with me?

1. It's a good movie, but not a great one. It does read as a Spielberg movie, but it's so classic Spielberg it feels a bit bloated and uninspired at times.
3. I don't think the audience for Sherlock and Tintin overlap much...
5. Random fact - December kinda is the month with rather more original, non sequel material so the chances are it will ne dominated by an original, non sequel.

6. Tintin was supposed to ride high on the huge buzz from overseas. which never happened. It won't be the movie to do crazy shit in December. It just very much pedestrian which is unfortunate.

1. should be a good thing but I meant it in a way that it's so Spielberg you pretty much know how it's going to play out and it's just so familiar it kinda becomes slightly boring. While watching it I felt like a lot of potential was sucked out of it. I actually think this would be better if it was live action.

The more naysayers this club gets, the more epic its success will be.

Can this even be defined as a club if it has no members beyond it's proponent?

Uh-uh means uh-uh.

After about an hour, I lost interest in the picture, something that never happens with Pixar’s animated movies, which have actual stories, not just strung-together tumbles, as well as social themes to chew over. “Tintin” is exhausting, and, for all its wonders, it wears one out well before it’s over.

Shitty reviews like the one you posted scratches out my first point. But they don't mean shit unless it's The Golden Compass level horrible. You just need to go back five years to see that a mediocre family film can defy all logic by passing an 8+ multiplier and completely owning the holidays.

It can happen. But Tintin is really bland. Not bad, but really, really bland. And I think that's the worst thing that could've happened. Families might go with Alvin all the way. It's familiar, already established franchise.

I was really looking forward to The Adventures of Tintin mainly because it’s a Spielberg movie. I always want to see a Spielberg movie. I don’t care if it’s animated, mocap, or 3D. I was glad AFI Fest provided an early chance to see the film, even earlier than the usual press screenings. However I found the film just okay, and from a director like Spielberg that’s almost worse than being a total 1941....

The action is totally Spielberg with sequences that build and build. It’s just they’re peppered with such puerile jokes, it undercuts the suspense. I’m not talking about one liners or visual gags. I’m talking about people getting hit in the face, dogs sniffing cows’ butts, elastic bumbling, more people getting hit in the face....

It’s not that it’s animated. Pixar movies are plenty exciting. Avatar worked as mocap action. If you didn’t like the story it was a creative difference, not a failure of the technology. It could still be a motion capture thing, where you just can’t invest in actors playing on a stage. That’s when James Cameron steps in and says, “Okay kids, you’ve had your fun but this is how you do it.” I was hoping Spielberg would be a James Cameron too....

The 3D does not add very much depth at all. I mean you can tell there’s space, but it’s not drastic. Another reason to see it in 2D.