The NY Times weren’t too impressed either.
Looks like I’ll be waiting for the video.
I hate to be the one to break it to you people, but critics don’t like anything unless:
[ul]
[li]It has a Message[/li][li]It has Tom Hanks[/li][li]It has a character named Opal[/li][li]It’s weird[/li][li]It’s foreign[/li][/ul]
Tomb Raider, obviously, is none of those things. That doesn’t mean it’s going to suck.
Even worse than this, I went to the movies yesterday and I saw posters for… oh god…
FINAL FANTASY THE MOVIE!!!
What have we done to deserve this. They’re great games, but they don’t translate well in to movies. Can you see the action scenes?
[scene]
3 rugged adventurer types stand in a line, each holding a weapon or glowing wand. They face a big bad dragon. The Dragon rears its head and roars. At that moment, one of the adventurers takes two steps forward and waves his sword through the air. Repeat until dragon mysteriously dies.
[/scene]
Lucky Charms
LC, you just made my day. I hope they keep the Final Fantasy 1 music for those scenes.
I got the impression those reviews on AIC were from normal people, not critic, and thus not bound by the agreement to hold until after release to publish.
Kindly post your reviews here.
Well the local reviewer (Rocky Mountain News - Denver) panned it (C-). According to him even for an action movie it is rather shallow and plotless. And to top it off the effects were underwhelming. He did mention the jiggly and gave that a thumb up, but he is a long time fan of A.J. so even that may be less impressive than expected.
I think I’m going to stay away from this on.
I’d like to propose a corrollary to this law. To wit: Any Taco Bell tie-in to a movie is the Kiss of Death.
Actually, I’ve seen a this movie untranslated at the 3-D animation conference, and it might go over well once translated.
I know nothing about the game it’s based on, but what I saw was beautifully done. Astounding animation – smooth, Nurb based models on par with Shrek. A beautiful, uniquly Japanese approach to the composition and color harmonies. The character animation is fluid and well done and blew me away at the time ('twas before I saw Shrek). Beautiful special effects, especially on the ghosts that make up alot of the flick.
Tha bad news is that the pacing and flow of the story was also uniquly Japanese. Long, loooooong, establishing shots. Long, meaningful glances you never quite grasp the meaning of. I suspect they’ll edit it down a bit for the U.S. release. And the characters, while beautifully animated, seem hollow and without mass, like Audry Hepburn had she been a helium baloon.
Well, I was planning on skipping this one, but I just heard tonight that Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) has a bit part, so now I have to go see it. Sigh.