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First Pics of Tomb Raider movie

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SilentRacoon

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Lots of preemptive judging based on a couple of stills with no context behind them, some people already predicting this will be the only setting in the film, tell me what you peeps are drinking to have such a foresight.
 
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Penguin said:
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Nice traps
 
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Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone.

Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who—against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit—must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.
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louiedog said:
If a male video game character wasn't totally over his farther commuting suicide or being murdered would you refer to them as daddy issues?
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I fail to see why their gender would change that (see: Tidus from Final Fantasy X has daddy issues to an even more grating level) so..yes? Lara's entire motivation to explores tombs in the new games stems moreso out of some contrived obligation to prove her deceased father was right in his theories than it does any desire of her to actually uncover the various artifacts and secrets of the civilizations i.e. the Byzantines in Rise of the Tomb Raider.
 
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CazTGG said:
I fail to see why their gender would change that (see: Tidus from Final Fantasy X has daddy issues to an even more grating level) so..yes?
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Because I've never seen someone use the phrase "daddy issues" when talking about men. I only ever see it about women.
 
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louiedog said:
Because I've never seen someone use the phrase "daddy issues" when talking about men. I only ever see it about women.
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It typically is exclusively a gendered concept. Ffs, the entire first page of Urban Dictionary results for "daddy issues" is full of sexist drivel.
 
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Nice. Alicia Vikander is great, and I can't wait for Walton Goggins as the villain. I think this might turn out pretty well.
 
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louiedog said:
Because I've never seen someone use the phrase "daddy issues" when talking about men. I only ever see it about women.
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Tony Stark: Daddy Issues

Thor: Daddy Issues

Spiderman: Uncledaddy Issues

Marty Mcfly : Daddyisajerkissues

Starlord: Mommy Issues + Unknowndaddy issues

Jonny 5 : Creator Issues.

Jaws : Brody Issues
 
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Flynn77 said:
Tony Stark: Daddy Issues

Thor: Daddy Issues

Spiderman: Uncledaddy Issues

Marty Mcfly : Daddyisajerkissues

Starlord: Mommy Issues + Unknowndaddy issues

Jonny 5 : Creator Issues.

Jaws : Brody Issues
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Ok? The entire point of this conversation was that when male characters have focus placed on the relationship with their father, it's not dismissed as "daddy issues." I've never seen anyone refer to any of these characters as having "daddy issues", so you're kind-of proving that point.

Google "Daddy Issues" and tell me how many of those results are about men.
 
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Sgt. Kabukiman said:
But did she actually say no or did they just decide to go with Vikander instead?
Vikander is great but I would have loved to see Daisy Ridley in the role.
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Not sure if we know, it sounds like the studio absolutely did want Ridley for the role though. I'm guessing she either passed, or there were scheduling issues.
 
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Inferno313 said:
Ok? The entire point of this conversation was that when male characters have focus placed on the relationship with their father, it's not dismissed as "daddy issues." I've never seen anyone refer to any of these characters as having "daddy issues", so you're kind-of proving that point.

Google "Daddy Issues" and tell me how many of those results are about men.
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Exactly. I'm not challenging people to find male characters that have these issues. In a thread about any of those characters no one would pop in and complain about their "daddy issues" like it happens with women.
 
Evolved1

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make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I used to think she was an okay actor, decent charisma, who was very pretty but ultimately forgettable.

Then I saw her in The Danish Girl and imho she somehow stole scenes from her co-star who was incredible in that role.

So wtf why r u doin' Tomb Raider!? lol waaaaay above this. Another career possibly spoiled by a videogame movie curse? Only AJ can survive this shit... partly because her Tomb Raider embraced its silly roots. Reboot is all fucked up tone-wise and takes itself way too seriously. And its most iconic (lol... maybe recognizable is a better word) elements are a ripped off from another B movie (The Decent).

Reboot is a trap. A creatively bankrupt trap.

Good luck.
 
triplestation

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what i like a lot is that the actress isn't attractive to the point where its distracting

im hoping for lots of horror elements and overall lots of good substance

hopeful!
 
Evolved1

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make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
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I'm not buying Vikander as Lara Croft at all.
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As Reboot Croft she is 100% convincing.

It's sad that the whiner with daddy issues Croft is replacing OG "Get out of my way or get fucked" Croft
 
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I think she actually looks really good as Lara.

My only beef is the lighting in those pics. Looks like they came straight off an episode of LOST.
 
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why is anyone still making big-budget video game adaptations in 2017
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eh, you coulda said the same thing about comic book films in the early 2000s. Then we got Spider-Man and X-Men.

These things'll be bad, then one day they won't be anymore. Maybe it'll be Tomb Raider where the sands start to shift, maybe it'll be Rob McElhenney's Minecraft, maybe it'll be something 10 years from now.
 
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