LaraAngelOfDarkness
07-19-2002, 02:26 AM
I was web surfing when I just decided to read the reviews of tomb raider I went to
http://cincinnati.com/freetime/movies/mcgurk/061501_tombraider.html
and started to read and i will post some of what they said:
No one has ever managed to make a good movie out of a video game.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is no exception.
Loud, tedious, boring and self-important, this movie offers nothing fresh, original or surprising. The plot, the characters, even the special effects, are second-rate, recycled cliches.
The barely coherent plot involves the search for some ancient artifacts that will endow the owner with power to manipulate time, if used at the moment of a rare eclipse. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), the filthy-rich daughter of a dead British lord (Jon Voight, Ms. Jolie's real-life father), reckons she can use the items to bring Daddy back to life. She is pitted against a bunch of old men in suits who want to rule the universe, apparently.
The basic problem is with the source material. "Tomb Raider" is a popular game, to be sure, but Lara Croft is not a character. She is an action figure, like a G.I. Joe with breasts.
Five writers are credited on the movie, which might be taken as evidence that nobody had any idea how to turn the digital Lara into a living being. Instead, they fall back on the mind-numbing video-game formula, where the answer to every obstacle is more bullets.
It is common in Hollywood to justify movies as stupid as this one by saying they are aimed at teen-age males, the implication being that boys are indiscriminate morons.
I hate how she said that it is based on a mindless game with a person who has NO character and how she said it is based on
on just shooting when everyone on this forum knows that this stuff is not true, Because I feel Lara Croft has one of the best videogame life backgrounds there are. What also ticks me off is how this woman said that this movie is only targeted at 14 year old boys When there are just as much women as men who play this game. What do you all think?
http://cincinnati.com/freetime/movies/mcgurk/061501_tombraider.html
and started to read and i will post some of what they said:
No one has ever managed to make a good movie out of a video game.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is no exception.
Loud, tedious, boring and self-important, this movie offers nothing fresh, original or surprising. The plot, the characters, even the special effects, are second-rate, recycled cliches.
The barely coherent plot involves the search for some ancient artifacts that will endow the owner with power to manipulate time, if used at the moment of a rare eclipse. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), the filthy-rich daughter of a dead British lord (Jon Voight, Ms. Jolie's real-life father), reckons she can use the items to bring Daddy back to life. She is pitted against a bunch of old men in suits who want to rule the universe, apparently.
The basic problem is with the source material. "Tomb Raider" is a popular game, to be sure, but Lara Croft is not a character. She is an action figure, like a G.I. Joe with breasts.
Five writers are credited on the movie, which might be taken as evidence that nobody had any idea how to turn the digital Lara into a living being. Instead, they fall back on the mind-numbing video-game formula, where the answer to every obstacle is more bullets.
It is common in Hollywood to justify movies as stupid as this one by saying they are aimed at teen-age males, the implication being that boys are indiscriminate morons.
I hate how she said that it is based on a mindless game with a person who has NO character and how she said it is based on
on just shooting when everyone on this forum knows that this stuff is not true, Because I feel Lara Croft has one of the best videogame life backgrounds there are. What also ticks me off is how this woman said that this movie is only targeted at 14 year old boys When there are just as much women as men who play this game. What do you all think?