Ok, saw the rest of Tomb Raider
PostPosted:Mon Jun 18, 2001 3:41 pm
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I still don't think it was a terrible movie for what it was trying to do (I don't think it was that bad at all, actually), but I think I can see now how people may have hated it.
Cons:
1.) Pointless psychic ghost-children that seem to be put into the movie simply to make people go "what the <i>fuck</i> was that all about?"
2.) That stupid scene that came out of left-field where Lara becomes a Buddhist monk for absolutely no discernable reason.
3.) Why would the Illuminati, the world's most secretive organization, let that butler and Brice just come along for the ride to find the triangle?
3.) Not enough really good action scenes
4.) Was Lara firing screwdrivers out of a pneumatic bolt gun? (more of a question than a con, actually)
5.) Shamelessly tacked-on romance
6.) Shamelessly tacked-on shower scene (Peter's)
6.) Don't ever play around with time in a movie. It just doesn't work. At least in this movie they decided that to avoid time-paradoxes they just made the whole time travel thing not make sense at all.
Pros:
1.) I don't know how many of the British accents were faked, but they were halfway-decent at least.
2.) When Lara smacked that guy in the face with the back wheel of the motorcycle.
3.) When the butler busted out that shotgun and started blasting people.
4.) Powell's flying elbow to Lara's face.
5.) Shamelessly tacked-on shower scene (Lara's) : )
On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 6.5. It would have been a 5, but pro's #3 and #4 gave it an extra one and a half points : )</div>
Cons:
1.) Pointless psychic ghost-children that seem to be put into the movie simply to make people go "what the <i>fuck</i> was that all about?"
2.) That stupid scene that came out of left-field where Lara becomes a Buddhist monk for absolutely no discernable reason.
3.) Why would the Illuminati, the world's most secretive organization, let that butler and Brice just come along for the ride to find the triangle?
3.) Not enough really good action scenes
4.) Was Lara firing screwdrivers out of a pneumatic bolt gun? (more of a question than a con, actually)
5.) Shamelessly tacked-on romance
6.) Shamelessly tacked-on shower scene (Peter's)
6.) Don't ever play around with time in a movie. It just doesn't work. At least in this movie they decided that to avoid time-paradoxes they just made the whole time travel thing not make sense at all.
Pros:
1.) I don't know how many of the British accents were faked, but they were halfway-decent at least.
2.) When Lara smacked that guy in the face with the back wheel of the motorcycle.
3.) When the butler busted out that shotgun and started blasting people.
4.) Powell's flying elbow to Lara's face.
5.) Shamelessly tacked-on shower scene (Lara's) : )
On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 6.5. It would have been a 5, but pro's #3 and #4 gave it an extra one and a half points : )</div>