Hey folks, Harry here... I know I give Lara Croft and the TOMB RAIDER franchise a lot of strife, but ya know... If the first film hadn't sucked the chrome off a Harley Davidson at 95 mph, well I could cut it some slack. Admittedly though, there are all new people involved on this. A new screenwriter, a new director, a new editor... Hell, they seem to have even abandoned the lame power items of Alexander the Great thing they had in an early treatment I read. I want a cool movie with Angelina Jolie in it, I really do. She's hot as hell, and I do believe that she has a great deal of untapped talent and charisma... and he said there was a glimpse of a sex scene in the trailer... ya know... that probably means one of those from behind shots like the shower shot in the first film... But that really isn't what TOMB RAIDER is about, TOMB RAIDER should be about great action and great ancient mysteries uncovered. Let's hope Jan De Bont had the key to unlocking a good Lara Croft film... Let's hope...
Harry,
First off, love the web site and keep up the good work. Now that's out of the way I have some information about the new Tomb Raider 2 movie that may or may not be of any use, you decide.
I was called aside in a movie store at the weekend to watch a thirty second trailer for Tomb Raider 2 and to give feedback on what I thought.
The plot looked straight forward enough. Lara is looking for "Pandoras Box" so that some bad guys do not get their hands on it first and mess up the world. Nothing new there.
The action looked pretty good. There was some cool shots of Lara firing her trade mark two guns at a car and then running over the top of it. Another shot of her on a motorbike jumping of some ledge out into the air. There was one underwater scene with a shark which looked even more fake than the ones in the computer games, but I was told that the effects are still not finished. By far the coolest scene almost at the end of the trailer was Lara and someone else sky diving off a really tall building. Cut in with all this was some shots of various Lara at different exotic locations. There was also a sex scene which may have involved Lara, the scene jumped by very quick!
Over all it looked like it should be entertaining and worth a trip to your local movie theatre. It looks like it should be better than the first.
That's it.
Call me rockman463
