wierd_one44, on Jan 26 2007, 01:49, said:
A third Tomb Raider movie? Well, we'll see. Angelina was always superb as Lara, the main problem is beyond that. Script? Plot? The action scenes were improved on in the second film, but give that the "Cradle of Life" was supposed to be a "dawn of time" mystery? Please. If they can make the third one a decent film apart from for its lead actresses performance, I'll be impressed enough.
Maybe somebody will catch on to the fact that Indies so popular, even now, because his films always portrayed him as a fallible human being who just happened to be a brilliant archaeologist and adventurer. Everyone remember the scenes in Chicago University, where you discover that he doesn't deal with everyday life very well at all thank you very much? Lara should be like that. Instead, the only time we see her when she's not on the "job" is when she's out horse riding, shooting at targets from moving horseback. I guess I'm saying less flash trash, more human interest. Who doesn't want to see a scene like that from TR1, where Lara interrogates a wounded Larson before knocking him out with a roudhouse kick and a smile when he tries to get the jump on her with her back turned? Or scenes like her rooftop conversation with Natla just before she fights the big bad?
Also, they MUST get Lara some real opposition. If it hadn't been for her fathers connection to the Illuminati in the first film, would anyone have cared beyond Powell's actions? A smuggler in the second film, an ex-lover she has to kill? Maybe we should make suggestions here?
Finally, I'd like to see a real sense of adventure running through any third film, rather than just some punching, shooting, running and whatnot. The first twenty minutes of Indiana Jones: Raider of the Lost Ark are a prime example, especially since in the games Lara is always so heavily physical. Puzzles, traps, hidden enemies, hard-to-reach locations? Where are things like having to jump into a river and go over a waterfall just to reach a specific location, or the shifting of a switch which leaves Lara trying to outrun collapsing roofs/huge boulders trying to crush her? Finally, where is the reminder of just how wierd Lara's world really is? This is an adventurer who has pulled a mystical dagger out of a dragons heart, discovered Atlantis, just barely intervened in an attempt to kick-start the next stage in human evolution and even ended up in another dimension? The first film got this right with the Cambodian temple section, but we haven't seen even a suggestion of this since.
Alright, that's it, rant over and done with. Just one last thing, my wish for where Lara will end up in the third film, if there is one: Atlantis, it would be a nice closing touch I think. How about everyone else?
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