The Cradle of Life....

[fajrdrako]

I went to see "Tomb Raider 2" last night.

I didn't dislike it but while I was watching it did cross my mind a few times that I could have spent the same money on going to see "Pirates of the Caribbean" for the fifth time, and I'd have had more fun.

The thing is, there's nothing in "Tomb Raider 2" except action. Not much humour, plot, or characterization, and I kept confusing the random white males in the story because they looked alike to me - a sort of Colin Farrell look that made it difficult for me to keep them straight.

The actor playing the villain was annoyingly familiar and I never did place him till the credits: Ciaran Hinds, who played Captain Wentworth in Persuasion, my favourite Jane Austen story.

Part of me was cringing whenever ancient artifacts got destroyed, which happened whenever anyone in the movie came across any. That didn't bother me as much in the first movie.

There was an interesting review of this in the Ottawa Citizen, where the reviewer talked (amusingly) about how disorienting it was for him to see an action-hero as a sex object, since he was accustomed to a separation of the two. Since I have always lusted after action heroes, it seems natural to me! What an interesting gender difference.

I lust after Lara Croft in the abstract, but, though I admire Angelina Jolie, not that much on the screen. Pity. Disappointing.

Before the movie there was an ad about how evil movie piracy is and how people shouldn't do it. The tag line was 'stamp out piracy' or something like that. I murmured to my friend Harry, "Don't say that to a Jack Sparrow fan."