Tomb Raider (March 16th, 2018) Movie • Page 5

fun action, bad CGI, and nick frost. overall a decent time at the movies.

 

I liked this a lot. Alicia Vikander is perfect. I'm about 50/50 towards the changes they made. I loved the inclusion of her father on the island, and Lu Ren is infinitely better than Samsel-in-distress, but I'm not sure about them taking out the mysticism of the current game series. I want her to fight actual ghosts, dammit! haha. The island feels a little small, but open world exploration games are by nature rather repetitive, so that's understandable. I love that she didn't touch a single gun until she bought two of them in the credits scene. There's like just enough of her using each of her iconic tools, solving puzzles, and raiding tombs without any of it getting boring. All in all, great economization of the game narrative, and everything leading up to the boat was actually not that bad. I like that they drew from RoTR to set up the second movie with Ana as an antagonist, but if Lara doesn't run into some dude who's literally immortal I might be a little disappointed.

 

This was pretty meh. Good enough that I don't regret spending two hours watching it. I felt like it should have stuck with a lighter tone. Pretty much as soon as they arrive on the island it turns into this dark brooding kind of film and I don't think that worked all that well.

I'd be mildly interested in a sequel with the right director attached.

that final kill more on Goggins was sweet though

 

Yep. Enjoyed this a bit more than Expected to. I liked everything in London. Some nice gritty parts like her drowning that dude; kinda wish it was an R and we got more of that stuff.

 

uhhhhh

Get ready for more distended-neck posters, because a Tomb Raider sequel is coming

 

I enjoyed it and excited for a sequel.

 

Yeah I'm looking forward to it

 

I liked the first well enough. And Vikander deserves another shot. I’m down.

 

I'm ready for it. I wonder if this one will be based on Rise of the Tomb Raider

 

That's honestly really surprising, but I liked the first one for what it was & loved Alicia Vikander in the leading role. So, if they can double down on what worked, I'm down.

 

I thought the first was really solid. Love Vikander in the role, wouldn't mind seeing a new director take on the sequel.

 

Never ended up seeing this but might be time. Maybe I’ll check it out over the weekend

 

I loved Vikander in this movie and had a good time watching it, but I'm a teeeeny bit put off by one particular departure from the game, how the movie made the final tomb not actually haunted. I think the second game even more heavily relies on the supernatural in its plot. I wonder how closely they'll want to follow it, if at all. I'm not an expert but i kind of thought ghosts and mummies were this franchise's thing.

 

It's weird that they really backed off from all of it in the games outside of a few things. I think the Baba Yaga stuff was my favorite part of the second game. I hope they eventually do incorporate it. Also still have to finish the second and start the third games.

 

Wait, who backed off?

 

The games. The OG series was all annoy fighting skeletons and shit. The new series only uses them for the big third act blow off.

 

Ohh. Yeah, while playing I was always like, dang, Lara's killing a whole lotta people. I think it's cool that the supernatural element isn't always present, its scarcity helps retain its mystique.

I haven't played the third game yet, either, but I do remember the ending of the second game being a bit more supernatural than the first.

It's not present at all in the movie, though.

 

First one was good action movie. I hope now that the origin story is out of the way, it'll be more fun and actually.........have some tombs to be raided.

 

Yes please

 

stoked. I really enjoyed the new one. wasn't perfect, but solid, good start

 

WHOA WHAT

 

But the first movie basically said there's no ghosts. Are they doing the second game? How would that work?

 

I didn't really even like the first one but I love Kill List and A Field In England so I'm excited to see what he would do with a Tomb Raider movie.