Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

[cdybedahl]

Short version of review: Best James Bond movie ever.

So I like movies and TV with kickass babes. It's not like you hadn't guessed, what with the Buffy and Xena fanfic and all the screencaps. I liked Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle, to a large extent because it had lots of babes and they kicked a reasonable amount of ass. The Cradle of Life only had one babe, but hot damn what a babe, and she kicked truly serious amounts of ass. Even when standing still. I've rarely seen casting as great as Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. The woman can out-macho a gang of soldiers in full combat gear while standing around in jeans and t-shirt. Add a couple of guns, some awesome acrobatic moves, seriously skin-tight clothes and, well, *drool*. For the next Tomb Raider movie, they can keep everything the same, except I want Lara's tough-as-nails love interest to be played by Renée O'Connor.

Oh, and the plot wasn't nearly as braindead as in the first movie. It almost made sense.

Comments

[nordgren.livejournal.com]

Well, having finally seen the movie I certainly agree on the drooling and on the casting call, if only because we haven't seen Renée O'Connor kick ass for far too long.

But darnit, if they were going to reuse ideas from the first game they could have reused the main villain as well, not just bits of her ideology. Especially since an obvious choice for Natla would be Hudson Leick.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I still don't know the plots of any of the games. Are they written down somewhere, for those of us who don't really like the games?

[nordgren.livejournal.com]

Probably, but a bit of googling won't show me the pages I vaguely remember from when I played the first game.

Some of the games allow trivial summarization, though.

2) Italian mobster wants to find ancient Chinese dagger that turns you into a dragon when you stab yourself in the heart with it. Believes being a non-bulletproof, non-flying dragon will allow him to dominate modern world. Boring villain.

3) Something involving a conspiracy to recover an alien artifact that can do... stuff.

4) Well, it's got mummies so it can't be all bad.

Problem is 1) which had a tyrant from ancient Atlantis, sent into stasis by her fellow monarchs for abuse of power after she tried to jumpstart evolution again by killing Utopia. Clarketech, exotic locales, gunplay and possible slashbait. And a solid game that was actually new at the time.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Damn, that would've fit perfectly into my now-ended space-flying pirates secret-war campaign.