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[legend166]

The Oscar curse is real.

 

[DirgeExtinction]

The face is throwing me off mainly, but it's also the whole poster. It does nothing for me.

 

[Pandy]

I think this stands a fairly decent chance of being the best videogame movie of all time.

There's no way this is going to be better than Mortal Kombat.

 

[RedAssedApe]

You people don't deserve Lara Croft. What is up with this thread?

haha people hate on the tomb raider games too

 

[Jaded Alyx]

The face is throwing me off mainly, but it's also the whole poster. It does nothing for me.

Face looks like Anakin.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Bad poster but still interested.

 

[Bigmanatee]

Not a fan of the choice of actress for the role and it's not why you'd think She always looks pissed in all the roles she's had and that doesn't mesh with eitherof the first entries in the tomb raider series.

 

[Shizuka]

Not feeling it.

 

[Surfinn]

Not a fan of the choice of actress for the role and it's not why you'd think She always looks pissed in all the roles she's had and that doesn't mesh with eitherof the first entries in the tomb raider series.

Did she look pissed in Ex Machina?

 

[Omega Kirby]

What are the red lights? UFU invasion?

Obviously transformers

 

[Basketball]

She looks so.....small

If you're talking about her tits sure

but one think I really hate in the reboot games is that she is so short looking
Big ass head to body proportion.

 

[scitek]

Can we have a discussion about this film that doesn't turn into gross armchair analysts nit picking a women's look to death?

I thought you said "arm hair analysts" and thought I missed a previous thread.

 

[Basketball]

Second the Lauren Cohan notion.

YES

and she is english i think

 

[VibratingDonkey]

There's no way this is going to be better than Mortal Kombat.

This is where it falls down.

I don't know, I think any videogame movie not by Uwe Boll has a decent chance at being the best one of all time. But it just doesn't seem to happen ever.

 

[Ryde3]

my immediate reaction is "nah"

 

[Jombie]

Those are really bad. Looks like the cover of a dtv movie.

 

[grosvenor_92]

Poster looks meh. Maybe the full trailer will make it look decent

 

[Indelible]

This does nothing for me, she is a great actress but I'am not sure she fits as Lara Croft.

 

[RedAssedApe]

i like that the bow and arrow is getting top billing here lmao

 

[Jawmuncher]

Someone pointed out that the poster kinda gives off a horror movie vibe

 

[J-Tier]

I dunno why, but I keep mistaking Alicia Vikander for Milana Vantrub. I see a photo of Alicia and think "that doesn't look like the AT&T girl..."

 

[Strings]

Not too optimistic for this. Geneva Robertson-Dworet is a very talented screenwriter, but the last draft of this I read was incredibly shoddy.

 

[Niks]

Man, haven't been following this movie at all..

but fuck, who ever thought the cast for Lara was a good idea?

 

[Trup1aya]

The actress is obviously extremely athletic, but the poster and clips make her seem extremely uncoordinated.

The CGI saw slide looked pathetic- as if she was looking at a tennis ball and not a rusty death trap inches away from disfiguring her face. Doesn't seem like her best performance.

 

[yukianderson]

I mean who approved this? Can't be unseen.

 

[Surfinn]

The actress is obviously extremely athletic, but the poster and clips make her seem extremely uncoordinated.

The CGI saw slide looked pathetic- as if she was looking at a tennis ball and not a rusty death trap inches away from disfiguring her face. Doesn't seem like her best performance.

Something tells me her performance isn't the issue in that scene

 

[Plywood]

she's gotten plenty of other jobs. she probably getting paid more too haha. seems to be taking the same route as fassbender. he doesn't seem super picky with his roles.

Everybody needs to work.

Yeah you're both right. Still this looks on some straight to dvd.

 

[TheMehyawa]

Awful
Generic
Boring
oh and neck

I miss Angelina

 

[Subpar Spatula]

The movements in general look a bit clunky.

I suspect this will be AvP: Requiem tier.

 

[Nightfall]

The build and the face.

I remember seeing the very first photo released of the shoot and the first thing that came to mind was how skinny she looked.

That's what everyone said about Gal Gadot and Wonder Woman. And that turned out pretty well.

I like the poster. It's not the greatest of all time but I like that she's not this hyper sexualized woman anymore.

 

[Terrible_Majesty]

Resident Evil 6

 

[Samanosuke Akechi]

That poster makes her neck look freakishly long.

Jeremy Howard aka Voice of Donatello in the Michael bay Ninja turtle movies long?

 

[Kumorin]

I look at that poster and my first thought is, “What adventures will Lara get up to on.. those... um... rocky shoals?” But at least the actress looks appropriately muscular and is carrying a game accurate climbing axe. The brief teaser for the trailer showed what looked like a Resident Evil film series style booby trap though and it looked bad.

 

[spineduke]

Can we have a discussion about this film that doesn't turn into gross armchair analysts nit picking a women's look to death?

This - this thread is fucking embarrassing. No male star/character gets scrutinized anywhere close over minute details. Its upsetting to see, and its a pattern here. It happens in every game discussion with characters like Samus, Lara, Alloy and any game with prominent female characters designs that fall outside the realm of what people "normally" see. I would like to see the mods take stronger stances towards this of posting, as I feel this just reinforces negative attitudes and is reflective of the gaming community in general.

 

[Poona]

Yay, love they have her name on the poster there too.

Can't wait for the day when I stop seeing people refer to her as Laura (Laura and Lara are different pronunciations, not just different spelling).

 

[Oblivion]

Ugh. Same problem with the chick who played WW.

Someone get both of them a sandwich.

 

[Tounsi_Tag]

The amount of hate against the actress is absolutely mind-boggling and let's not talk about the implied sexism in some " criticisms "
I just don't understand what's so hard about realizing that this is not the SAME LARA.
Dual pistols and braids' Lara doesn't belong in this universe. I don't like the new generic Lara but it's unfair to judge the new movie as a separate entity by comparing it to something it doesn't pretend to represent in the first place

 

[Oblivion]

No male star/character gets scrutinized anywhere close over minute details.

No? Were you here when Nicholas Cage was cast for the role of Ghostrider?

 

[Discotheque]

Happy with the casting of vikander. Poster looks shit, hopefully the trailer is decent tho.

 

[MaLDo]

Ok, the arrow grip is totally wrong. But looking at it, it seems that the actress had some kind of accident in their fingers. It seems that two first fingers are false (like a plastic finger hiding the injury) and the fingernail is made of plastic and stuck on top of the false finger. Maybe that's why she can grip the arrow in a stronger way.

Or maybe is the gif quality and my bad eyes

This is what I meant

 

[spineduke]

No? Were you here when Nicholas Cage was cast for the role of Ghostrider?

You have people analyzing her neck and fingers - are you seriously trying to equate this?

 

[Emulated Hype]

I have a feeling in my gut that this is going to flop, I just can't shake it.

This looks like what I was half-expecting an Uncharted film starring Wahlberg to be.

 

[mao2]

You have people analyzing her neck and fingers - are you seriously trying to equate this?

Her neck looks weird in that poster. This has nothing to do with the gender.

 

[hotcyder]

This - this thread is fucking embarrassing. No male star/character gets scrutinized anywhere close over minute details. Its upsetting to see, and its a pattern here. It happens in every game discussion with characters like Samus, Lara, Alloy and any game with prominent female characters designs that fall outside the realm of what people "normally" see. I would like to see the mods take stronger stances towards this of posting, as I feel this just reinforces negative attitudes and is reflective of the gaming community in general.

Absolutely. So far this thread be like;

 

[spineduke]

Her neck looks weird in that poster. This has nothing to do with the gender.

You think so, but the beauty expectations and criticism being set here are entirely precedented by her sexuality. There would be far less interest, and far less posting about the neck if it was a guy on the poster.

 

[Phife Dawg]

You have people analyzing her neck and fingers - are you seriously trying to equate this?

Have you taken a look at the poster? It's been shopped so much her neck looks totally unnatural. It's not about her fingers but the way the film depicts her stringing a bow, which looks like a toddler finicking with a toy bow.

 

[TsuWave]

poster looks cheap

 

[MaLDo]

Nibel posted this on twitter:



https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/909814807116820481

Double neck!

 

[OfTheOverflow]

Have a feeling this is going to be a pretty uninspired, generic schlocky movie. Video game movies continue to be a mistake.

 

[Yukinari]

Nice Arin Hanson neck.