Tomb Raider Reboot

I'm probably going to see this tonight.

Never seen the Jolie ones but I might just give this a go even if it turns out to be absolutely nothing worth writing about.

Tomb Raider one with Jolie is amazing.

Tomb Raider 2 is....spectacularly awful but Jolie is beautiful and having fun.

If it's on Netflix then I might check it out, but they looked pretty silly to me.

Oh, yes, that's the point.

Tomb Raider 1 is awesomely silly.

Bunji-jump fights, giant rock monsters, Ser Jorah as the main villain, Daniel Craig playing an American while Jolie plays a Britt. The Illuminati.

edited 19th Mar '18 6:34:05 AM by CharlesPhipps

Well at least the ending was funny. XD

So I have to ask, what do you guys think would make a genuinely good (not okay, not so bad it's good) video game movie?

I'll just copy and paste what I said in the Box Office thread:

Honestly Assassin's Creed had the right idea. An original story set in the same universe. It just failed at the execution. I wouldn't mind another movie like that but set in a different game universe that's not difficult to explain for people who have never played the game. A game like Dragon Age shouldn't take that much effort to set up for example.

I think this would have been awesome if they'd kept Sam and the rest of the castaways plus the supernatural Himiko.

Then again that would mean China wouldn't allow the movie, and I think that would hurt the sales of the film.

Something like the CGI Resident Evil films that retains the look of the game, but a narrative that expands on the premise the way Mortal Kombat did, without getting stupid like Mortal Kombat II and Tekken did, and certainly not going off the rails like Resident Evil did. Maintaining the faithfulness that this movie had and making tongue-in-cheek nods like Lara getting impaled, wielding her axe, and getting two pistols at the end of the movie.

This would be a "genuinely good" adaption with better camerawork and a more engaging villain.

Eh, they could maybe remake Himiko as a mutant psychic or alien or something.

:)

Actually, that is an issue.

You can't really DO Tomb Raider without the supernatural.

Saw the film. The script is fairly paint-by-numbers but the direction is solid and Vikander does well selling the character. Much like the game, one big plus is that it isn't afraid to have Lara get dirty and beaten up, the emphasis is very much on being impressed by what she is doing rather than how good she looks while doing it. That was a major problem with the Jolie films, Beauty Is Never Tarnished was in full force.

The overall pacing was off, it felt like it took half the film just to get to the island and it ends with one of the most protracted Sequel Hooks I've seen. A lot of the plot points were jumped over (specifically Richard and Lu Ren Sr's relationship with the slave labor, the odd decision to escape in plain sight immediately after Vogel executed someone, and Richard visiting the tomb entrance in plain sight) it's hard to tell if it was bad scripting or the result of cut scenes.

Also, the lack of a Sam character who might have been a damsel in distress doesn't add more weight to Lara's journey.

Sam would have also grounded Lara a bit in her London life and given her someone to play off of. I feel like they TRIED to set up the captain as that, but he's not around enough to be an investing relationship since, after Lara escapes, they never have a scene together again. Sam, even if she was a Damsel and a Non-Action Guy, would have probably given us more weight.

Idk. Maybe she gets shot during the escape so she has to be Damsel'd due to injury and she was never an action person in the first place. Then both Sam and Richard are hostages later and, while Richard has his sacrafice moment, Sam gets to help Lara escape.

We could give her some plot use by maybe Lara is terrible with Chinese and Japanese but Sam was always better at it. There, easy plot use for Sam and something to help establish a dynamic of both are scholars, but balance the other's faults.

You can summarize everything wrong with this movie with the fact it spends 20 minutes with Lara Croft bike courier.

Because that's like Tony Stark tech support or Bruce Wayne dock worker.

God forbid we open with the game's shipwreck and desperate struggle for survival.

To be honest, the bike chase scene was probably the most fun scene in the movie for both myself and my boyfriend. That probably says something.

We're getting a sequel.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/not-only-is-a-tomb-raider-sequel-happening-somehow-ben-1837871157

That's...certainly a thing.

Indeed.

I mean.

Hur...ray?

Whoever doesn't have it yet, you can get both this and another TR game for free

Click

Always wanted to play this game thank you.

Woops, just realized that this is the film thread

Ah never mind

Alicia Vikander is no longer your Tomb Raider

If we're gonna do a new reboot, let's kick it off with the Atlantis story from the first game. I mean, Tomb Raider had a pretty unique take on Atlantis, I think. Probably have to tone it down for a movie to keep it PG-13, but still...

Also, Lara in the movies still hasn't fought a T-rex, right? That's a glaring omission.

Edited by diddyknux on Jul 30th 2022 at 6:32:45 AM