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[Bollocks]

looks.....ok?
after that teaser from yesterday I expected the worst.

 

[Instro]

I dunno the staff looks pretty solid(good director, and same writer is currently working on Captain Marvel), and they have a good cast. I'll go out on a limb and say this will turn out ok.

 

[SilverArrow20XX]

I'm in just for the stunt work at least. She looks like she put a ton of effort into all those scenes. The rest of the movie's just there to frame it.

 

[dreamfall]

Eeeeeesh.

Just can't really get into it, but I know I'll end up seeing it. It just feels off - the character, the Trinity plot, the reboot focus - all of it.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

At least it probably won’t be as bad as Assassin’s Creed

 

[ScientificPizza]

at least it has more humour than the recent games

 

[MayMay]

The last scene of that trailer omg.

 

[Arklite]

A mishmash of the last two games with a worse story set up than both. What a feat.

 

[FoneBone]

99% sure that Nick Frost bit at the end is from the very end of the movie.

 

[jmizzal]

That looks 100% based off the new tomb raider games

 

[Fredrik]

Looks good imo, lots of scenes from the 2013 game are in, I have high hopes for this!
Wrong actress though, Vikander is top quality when it comes to acting but her voice and body type just doesn't fit the character imo. No idea right now who they should've chosen instead though.

 

[jetsetrez]

Looks like a made for TV movie. And I really like Vikander, but she doesn't look the part at all to me.

 

[Kaizer]

Looked good to me, they're pulling heavily from the reboot that's for sure.

 

[Giolon]

I hated everything about this trailer. I hate what Tomb Raider has become. RIP Lara Croft 1996 - 2013.

 

[El_Chino]

I hated everything about this trailer. I hate what Tomb Raider has become. RIP Lara Croft 1996 - 2013.

Care to elaborate?

 

[m_dorian]

Can't feel Vickander as Croft.

It felt to similar to the 2013 reboot and this game had a very stupid story.

 

[Larson Conway]

Oh my goodness, the BTS feature is a gem. The action shots here really give me hope the film will turn out stellar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXq7mKcx5s

Also, spot braided, old-school Lara look.

 

[D.Lo]

Good cast, Dom West always a winner.

Generic trailer that looks like every movie ever but nice enough. It's a QTE game without the button prompts I guess.

 

[Jangowuzhere]

Well, that looks like a video game movie.

That means it looks really bad BTW.

 

[Hesemonni]

Judging by the trailer she's one hell of a jumper.

 

[big_z]

Oh my goodness, the BTS feature is a gem. The action shots here really give me hope the film will turn out stellar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXq7mKcx5s

Also, spot braided, old-school Lara look.

this actually sold me more on the movie than the trailer.

 

[Via Purifico]

Trinity? so are they mixing both reboots into one film?. That's.. a choice.

I hope it turns out decent.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Good cast. Probably the first good video game movie.


Bts is better than the trailer yes

 

[PhineBuyM3]

Looks like its based on the garbage reboot version of Lara

 

[Toa TAK]

Good cast. Probably the first good video game movie.

I remember thinking this for Assassin’s Creed.

 

[Vintage]

It's funny how it tries so hard to be exciting and still looks boring. Everything in the trailer is a cliche seen million times in other movies, I feel like I've already watched the whole movie and know everything that happens in it. I can't imagine this movie portraying Lara Croft as anything but a super generic action movie hero, at least the trailer gives me these wibes.

 

[ScaryShark]

I don't know what to think about this after that trailer. With all it has going for it, it would have to majorly screw up to not be the best reviewed video game adaptation ever. It's virtually a shoe-in unless it is somehow awful. I know that's a very, very low bar but this should do it.

It looks pretty mediocre to me and that trailer was pretty dull. Looks like the budget was not very high and that doesn't inspire me with confidence. You have a first time US production director and the first script Geneva Robertson-Dworet has ever written (but Disney picked her for Captain Marvel too so she must have chops)/

That said, Alicia Vikander can definitely pick what she wants to do after the last couple of years she has and if this is the bigger (even though it doesn't look it to my eyes) budget action franchise she wants to attach herself to, I'm thinking the script must be at least okay.

Everyone likes Dominic West and Walton Goggins too so here's hoping.

 

[GravityInsanity]

The one thing that really bothers me about this movie is that Alicia Vikander does not feel like Lara Croft at all.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

I remember thinking this for Assassin’s Creed.

The first ass creed trailer had that Kanye West song

 

[Toa TAK]

The first ass creed trailer had that Kanye West song

I’ll honestly never get the complaint on that.

Forward Inna Dem Clothes made that shit.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Still surprised the didn't get camilla luddington to play the role.

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

This is guaranteed to flop.

 

[ScaryShark]

Still surprised the didn't get camilla luddington to play the role.

Why? Vikander is at least kind of well known and a much better actress.

 

[Giolon]

Care to elaborate?

This is Lara Croft a la Katniss. I much preferred Lara Croft as Indiana Jones meets James Bond of the pre-2013 reboot era.

 

[Poppyseed]

Judging by the trailer she's one hell of a jumper.

I’ve still got no idea why she CGI jumps off the plane wing. She should just keep running.

That looked genuinely terrible. Under 30% on RT. Mark my words.

 

[MadLaughter]

The jump from the ship also looks goofy. I like the cast, but this trailer's full of SUPER quick cuts and it just feels off.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Why? Vikander is at least kind of well known and a much better actress.

Because she's an actor, is pretty popular, voiced the last 2 games, did the motion capture for Lara, game character is her.


Not saying she's a better actor, good actor or that vikander isn't a better actor... Just surprised and curious why they went the route they did.

 

[Flipyap]

So I guess terrible casting is going to be one of post-reboot Tomb Raider's defining features, huh? Vikander seems fine in the pre-adventure parts, but I just don't buy her as an action hero (though judging by the action scenes in this trailer, she might be more of a Mr. Magoo). At least she's much better than the moan machine they used to voice Lara in last two games.

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

This trailer gave me the same feelings I had when I first watched The Scorpion King. Not sure how to take that.

Edit: Also not sure how I feel for them taking two actors from Into the Badlands and sticking them into this movie to help it.

 

[ScaryShark]

Because she's an actor, is pretty popular, voiced the last 2 games, did the motion capture for Lara, game character is her.


Not saying she's a better actor, good actor or that vikander isn't a better actor... Just surprised and curious why they went the route they did.

Camilla Luddington isn't 'pretty popular'. She's never even been in a feature film. Warner Bros. isn't going to start a franchise without a star attached.

 

[Poster#1]

This is straight to DVD, right?

 

[Arklite]

Still surprised the didn't get camilla luddington to play the role.

I wonder if she at least got a serious consideration. She does act on camera, it is her role, and she looks the part about as much as the current actress.

 

[Galactic Barret]

That looked bad. All of her actions (running, jumping, drawing her bow, swinging) look unnatural to her. She sounds the part, but doesn't really look it.

I can feel the complete bomb already; critical and commercial failure is written all over it.

 

[Strike]

Looks serviceable.

Still surprised the didn't get camilla luddington to play the role.

She just had a baby.

 

[petethepanda]

Well that looks fucking awful. Hopefully it's just a bad trailer, I guess.

 

[blummer102]

It looks pretty mediocre. They seem to be combining plot threads from TR 2013 and Rise of the Tomb Raider, which I suppose is okay, but when I heard the name TRINITY I rolled my eyes, since I really thought their presence in RotTR was lame as heck.

 

[careksims]

That was bad. Felt very ho hum and I couldn't see Alicia as Lara at all.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Camilla Luddington isn't 'pretty popular'. She's never even been in a feature film. Warner Bros. isn't going to start a franchise without a star attached.

I dont think she has any movie titles but shes plays on greys anatomy and judging by social media Camilla is actually more popular BUT like myself you don't know the answer. But thanks for the replies.

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

Should've been Camilla Luddington. They could've waited to use her and having Lara Croft from the games actually being Lara Croft in the blockbuster movie could've been a huge marketing point in their favor.

 

[ScaryShark]

That was bad. Felt very ho hum and I couldn't see Alicia as Lara at all.

I don't see 2013 Tomb Raider as Lara either so it seems like they captured the essence of that game perfectly in this.

I dont think she has any movie titles but shes plays on greys anatomy and judging by social media Camilla is actually more popular BUT like myself you don't know the answer. But thanks for the replies.

lol, okay.