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Author Topic: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec  (Read 13636 times)

Offline Malamute

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2010, 12:14:22 PM »


Mind you, the leading lady this time's not exactly Michelle Ryan is she?  ;)
Or Claudia Cardinale...

Never a truer word spoken ;) :)
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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2010, 12:44:24 AM »

The film was supposed to start playing here on August 6th… it’s been delayed to April 25th 2011 :'(
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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2010, 05:08:20 PM »
The film was supposed to start playing here on August 6th… it’s been delayed to April 25th 2011 :'(
You know hwy that is? It's to give hollywood a chance to re-make it, move the action to modern times, move the whole thing to New York and make a genaral hash of it! lol

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2010, 06:28:17 PM »
You know hwy that is? It's to give hollywood a chance to re-make it, move the action to modern times, move the whole thing to New York and make a genaral hash of it! lol

Fear not my friend. If it’s any good you can count on Hollywood to do an awful remake sooner or later ;)

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2010, 11:44:31 AM »
for those who wanne know more about adele

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_extraordinaires_d'Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tardi

also look at his WW one and detective nestor burma work very dark but real good

Offline njetkulturny

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2010, 02:44:01 PM »
 8) It is supposed to start in Germany on 30. September.  8)

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2010, 05:30:49 PM »
If you like Adele blanc-sec don't miss other works of Tardi in similar settings,
maybe more VSF than pulp but highly recommended is Le demon des glaces
http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-3144-BD-Demon-des-glaces.html


and Adieu Brindavoine
http://www.bedetheque.com/avis-718-BD-Adieu-Brindavoine.html


Sadly i have no idea if they have been published in english :-(

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2010, 08:32:27 PM »
The film released last week in spain, I have seen it today.
Very inspirational and fun, makes me think in 5th Element (from Besson too) fun adventures, chases, comedy, etc.
Fun but clearly not a great movie as Inception (only to mention a recent good one)


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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2010, 08:50:08 PM »
Sounds very good  :)

Offline Whiskyrat

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2010, 10:45:12 AM »
Blimey - how did I miss this thread?

Looks like great fun.

/Goes off to search availability in UK/

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2011, 10:32:08 AM »
Only for the purpose of knowing if the DVD is worth buying to inspire your games:

Chinese version:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/KllUJHmfC3Q/

Russian version with subtitles:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/VtcDplIZjME/

Offline Amalric

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #26 on: February 15, 2011, 09:09:21 PM »
Any word on a US release?
Either in the theater or on DVD/BlyRay?

Thanks
Amalric

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #27 on: February 15, 2011, 09:20:48 PM »
I saw it last weekend. It was a nice pastime but nothing spectacular. No way near Indiana Jones type of quality :(

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #28 on: February 16, 2011, 02:53:05 AM »
Order it on the internet. More of a period comedy than an action-adventure flick. OK, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

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Re: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
« Reply #29 on: February 16, 2011, 09:29:22 AM »
It was entertaining but I lacks some of the qualities of the comic. Lousie is a bit too Kate Moss skinny to fill the frocks of Adele, who comes across as living up to pre Great War ideals.

The corruption and occultism comes across more as a comedy rather than the dark powers they are in the comic.

 

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