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Tomb Raider Game Blamed for Movie's Poor Ticket Sales
ff_cid writes "Reuters reports on the poor box office results of Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and how Paramount executives are pointing the finger at the mediocre reception of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness:
"The Cradle of Life," the second film based on games heroine Lara Croft, opened in fourth place at the U.S. box office last weekend with sales of $21.7 million, well below the opening weekend of 2001's "Tomb Raider." "The only thing we can attribute that to is that the gamers were not happy with the latest version of the 'Tomb Raider' video game, which is our core audience," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said." It couldn't possibly be that because the first movie was such a stellar work of cinematography, no one raced out to see the sequel.
ha! jeesh, they should have watched the first movie again.
/me waits for Tomb Raider Racer
Worst Lara ever!
My 13 yo says TR stopped being fun when they dropped the training level and now you can't kill Lara in her own home.
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My girlfriend is a big Lara Croft fan. She talked me into going to see the first movie. And hey, why not? She was happy that I wanted to do something she liked for her sake, and I could (secretly) dribble over Angelina Jolie.
The movie was so awful that, when the credits rolled, I rose from my seat and proclaimed - forgetting who I was with - as loud as I could: "Jesus, that movie SUCKED!".
I didn't get any for three days.
I'm still waiting for the Wachowski Brothers to sue themselves over Enter the Matrix, claiming it tarnished the franchise :)
First, games are to blame for violence in our schools (see this notable PA), and now they're to blame for crummy movie sales? What's next?
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
That itself discourages the action based audience (all adolescent guys or ones in their 20s).
How would a busty, sexy woman swinging around like Indiana Jones be unappealing to the action/adventure crowd? We are not that chauvinistic. We wanna see an empowered, intelligent woman.
With a sexy British accent.
And nice knockers.
And legs that would snap you in two.
The cancel button is your friend. Do not hesitate to use it.
oh those pirates.
I thought you were talking about the ones in the Carribean.
I suppose it's easier to blame someone else than to admit your movie is crap.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press... Thank you for coming. As you may know, LCTR:TCOL (catchy name, don't you know think?) didn't perform as well as expected its first weekend. We producers were confused at first, but then we realized the film is a big steaming pile of monkey shit, and have only ourselves to blame. Questions?
I thought that the reason the movie did badly is because of rampant Piracy? That's also the reason Pirates of the Caribbean is doing so well: of course pirates are going to see a Pirate movie.