Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Review

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the world of video gaming is Hard candy Mandy.

Hello Hello The video game expert himself the

man with all the knowledge all the time from

the manuals. Mr. Frithy sent. Hello Oh, I thought

you're going for Dan I don't have all the knowledge

now and then of course movie role Dan. How's

it go again? I occasionally play video games

as well And we are like I said going back into

the world of the video games this time for the

first one on This side of the Millennium mark.

We're going to the 2001 action -adventure film

Lara Croft Tomb Raider Lara Croft Cohen Tomb

Raider, so obviously this is the big -budget

Angelina Jolie film like I said from 2001 and

the first one of the 2000s that we'll be covering

and I'm just interested to see because the Tomb

Raider games have been around forever it seems

like there's been a ton of them so I have a suspicion

that there's gonna be more people with experience

with the Tomb Raider games than we had with Wing

Commander that's just I'm gonna throw that out

there I think it might be a possibility Dan did

you ever play any of the Tomb Raider games? I

did, I did. I didn't have a PlayStation 1, so

I didn't play it on that. I think I missed when

it was kind of exploded, but I did have a Sega

Dreamcast. I was one of the few, and I think

that's the first time I was exposed to it. I

haven't played it a great deal, but I did get

some familiarity when I got a PlayStation 2.

I also went back and played some of the classic

games. I wouldn't call myself a Laura Croft expert,

but I have some experience. Did you enjoy the

games? I did, I did. They were challenging, let's

say. I never finished one or beat one, but I've

enjoyed kind of the puzzle aspect. Actually,

my wife, current wife, she's the one that kind

of first got me into playing them. Not your former

wife. Wait, man, my current wife, back, man.

So, it's late. My current wife, who at the time

was my girlfriend, She enjoyed playing the game,

so actually when I got one of my new systems,

one of the first times I really got into one

of the games. I did like them. They're not my

all -time favorite games mostly because I feel

stupid and I get stuck and aggravated and stop

playing. That's like Assassin's Creed for Amanda.

I just want to shoot things and it doesn't work.

It's too hard. I played it on PC a little bit.

Like, Dan, I never really beat anything, but

I was young and I don't think I beat a whole

lot of my PC games that I played back in the

day. Right along with Space Buddies Must Die,

I don't know if you guys have ever played that

one, but you should. I think that this game...

scared the crap out of me like I was always worried

about getting like mauled by a tiger or something

like there's always something that's gonna come

get you and You got to be prepared you gotta

be your toes and you got to think through stuff

And it's a lot of coordination with like jumping

in and swinging and like doing her thing so it

It was definitely a cool game to get into She's

a she's a badass character, too. I mean she's

got this whole She's freaking Lara Croft. I mean,

she's got guns and skills and the flipping and

the jumping and the shooting and the sweet hair.

All that. Yeah, all that. Matt, what about you?

Any experience with the Tomb Raider games? Whoa,

man. Not a lot, if you can believe it. I remember

playing... on my playstation one i was late to

the playstation game i was a nintendo all the

way so i had my 64 for like a year or two before

i ever had the playstation um and so like i didn't

play a lot of tomb raider when i was a kid i

had a couple of demos on discs i'm sure and i

even played the card game um if you didn't know

that there was a a collectible card game for

Tomb Raider which is really interesting because

like you would have like a tomb deck and you'd

have to like lay down traps and stuff and then

like you and your friends would compete to go

through each other's dungeons and it was one

of the rare collectible card games that actually

had a single player mode where it's like if you

have a deck you can play by yourself which was

really cool. And then in anticipation of recording

this episode I went back because I've bought

not the most recent but the next to most recent

Tomb Raider game and I played that for a couple

of hours. And are you a fan of the game series

or not? Yeah. Yeah. I know a lot of the older

ones don't hold up well. The graphics have really

diminished. But the new ones, which I've been

told by fans, are very good as far as following

all of the things that made the original ones

good. but then have great graphics like just

amazing graphics and uh... are just generally

fun like their fun that they're actually they

have like a suspenseful list they have the puzzle

that i think great it's a great series of games

as for myself uh... i'm gonna be a broken record

for here from basically probably here on out

for the rest of the game series because i was

a huge gamer i guess you can call it uh... back

in the early gaming days, you know, back with

the Commodore 64 and Pong and Intellivision and

into the early Nintendo days, but I basically...

Retired I guess as a gamer it's somewhere in

the 90s. So most of the games that we talk about

from here on out I'll have no experience playing

I've never played a Tomb Raider game. I don't

even know if I've seen somebody play a Tomb Raider

game. So I'm completely oblivious to this whole

universe outside of what I saw in the movie here

So I'm gonna rely on you guys telling me if it's

a good Adaptation or not and the adaptation that

we're talking about was directed by Simon West

and like we said stars Angelina Jolie John Voight

Daniel Craig, Ian Glenn, and a few others. As

we get into the film, Dan, I'll start with you,

but how well do you think the movie represents

or visualizes on the big screen the actual video

game? I mean, well, I gotta say Angelina Jolie

does seem like she was born to play this role.

She certainly looks like the character in that

end. I don't remember much of the story of the

Tomb Raider games, or if there really was one,

to be honest with you. I think I kind of just

fast -forward through most of the cutscenes.

So I don't remember them being this, like, supernatural,

but I could be completely off on that. But I

think it gets kind of the action part of it,

but I always felt the games themselves were smarter

than this movie was in a lot of ways. Like, Angelina

Jolie seems to... not like the three uh laura

crofton this seems to only have one mode of like

just shooting every like the way i wanted to

play a tomb raider game was the way she was treated

in this movie uh so in that aspect i don't know

i think it's okay i think better than some but

i think it only represents the game at least

uh on a more superficial aspect of it. So I would

say, you know, if we're ranking it, maybe like,

you know, seven out of ten or so, six out of

ten when it comes to how well it does and when

it represents the game of Tomb Raider. From what

I've read, you kind of, I think you've touched

on a little of it. Maybe I don't know about the

story aspect of the games or kind of, you know,

the aesthetic element of that. But from everything

I've done in the research, it seems like there's

a lot of praise for the actual details from the

game showing up in the film, whether it be moves

that Lara Croft had, whether it be weapons, or

just different elements like that that they put

in there, so I can't speak to the actual story

aspect of either one, but a lot of people are

appraising it for maybe the detail work as far

as instilling some of the things that you would

have seen in the game into the movie. Is that

correct, Matt, or what do you feel like as far

as being an interpretation of the game series?

Ooh, I don't feel like I'm knowledgeable enough

in the game series. The only one I've ever beaten

was the Guardian of Light, which is one of the

last five years old and not a real game like

the other ones. So I don't know if they had the

minutiae in there. But if that's like that that's

your positive thing then you really need to relook

at your script from the very beginning Like if

all if your only appeal is the people that are

hardcore in the series because like like if any

of us who've you know? Having a passing interest

in the game can't pick up on that then that's

not gonna be enough, right? I think that a lot

of her moves, and even the way she jumped and

moved from vine to vine, and how she operated

in the tombs themselves, I think looked super

true to the game. I think the scenery and stuff

looked pretty cool and spot on. Her badassery

definitely came through. Like Dan said, she really

brought the character to life like she was born

to play it. And I think that it had a great sense

of the action adventure that you get from the

games. You felt that in the movies too. The jet

setting and all that good stuff as far as her

adventures go and how she handled things. like

the combat aspect or, you know, when the bullets

start flying, I think that it definitely was

pretty spot on. I mean, if you look at her look,

it's impeccable. It's her costume to a T, really.

I think for me, when it comes to something like

this, especially with having very little knowledge

of the actual game series, it's not saying that

it's a great interpretation or not, but what

I can say is it's not blatantly bad. It's it's

not just a disregard to the games like we've

seen in a few of the other films. So Super Mario

Yes, I mean it has that going for it So, you

know, I think we could we could pick a part of

the story a little bit But that was get into

the film itself But I I think there's probably

some aesthetic we pleasing things to people that

are big -time fans of the game series So it didn't

it didn't seem to have it didn't It doesn't have

the wrong type of person. It doesn't have something

that would just blatantly piss off a fan of the

game. It doesn't seem like from that standpoint.

So I'll give it that. I'm probably with Dan.

I'd say it's above average as far as representing

the game itself. So I'm right with you with a

6 -7 range somewhere in there. It's definitely

recognizable. Absolutely. All right. Well, let's

get into how the film works as a film itself.

We're giving it somewhat of a positive review

as far as how it represents the game. But will

we be positive as far as how it is as a film?

Dan, we usually start with you. What's your general

reaction to this as a cinema masterpiece? Cinema

masterpiece, wow. That's putting it up. I think

if I was 12, this would be my favorite movie

ever. I went into this not knowing. at all like

what to expect and I saw him run to me and it

was it's like a 19 % so which for video game

is actually uh it's actually above average so

I was like I don't I'm like I don't know to me

it's like it'll just be an action film and I

it's weird in there there are certain things

I would say like there is potential in certain

moments where like this could be kind of cool

but it ends up not working out like there's a

sequence that uh you know there's action sequence

where she's for some reason In her house on a

bungee cord and I just like Yeah, I just like

there were moments like that kind of it didn't

I don't know like this could be really cool and

it was okay I love the fact that like I don't

know. What was it ten minutes in and they got

her naked like that I'm like that, of course

And she took the angriest shower I've ever seen

someone take in my life. She's just not watching.

Yeah, she just looked so mad. I'm like, is she

just mad at the water? I just don't understand.

So overall, though, I think like it's the it's

just fine to me. Like the plot seemed kind of

ridiculous where it's like you have all these

moons that align. And the thing that kind of

like set me off like. was confusing to me was

just like how they incorporated some of the more

fantastical elements and like they just it seemed

off to me because it seemed like this action

film but when like you know suddenly you're in

these tombs and these these creatures come to

life and it just i don't know it didn't see it

it just seemed like it was from a different movie

but i thought overall all it was i don't know

Wouldn't like it's by far not the worst we've

seen but it just seems just kind of a waste just

nothing about it to me stood out all that positively

and there were a few moments where I'm just like

this is pretty bad, but it's It was it reminded

me of like This is what would have happened if

Michael Bay Was directing an Indiana Jones. It

just feels very cheap to me. That's like it just

I don't know Yeah, like I I'm gonna let Matt

go because I think he's gonna touch on a couple

things as far as plot goes, but Matt, how did

you feel like this worked as an overall film,

story, plot, and acting and all that type of

stuff? Well, I feel like to best illustrate it,

you should talk at normal speed and then I will

talk at really slow speed for just no reason

simultaneously because that happened a bunch.

There was that scene where the one aspect of

the scene is in slow -mo and the rest of the

scene is still in regular pace. Yeah, you can

so see the Matrix influence around this time

where it's like everyone tries to be the Matrix

but no one can be. And what's insane about that

and like what like really just bothers me is

it's like a year after The Matrix happened. This

movie comes from a massive franchise. It has

twice the budget of The Matrix. And it's twice

the budget. It came out later. Really? I assumed

it was made on the cheap. That is amazing. Twice

the budget and yet they can't even get a CG robot

to look a third as good as The Matrix CG robots.

Yeah. It's insane. But that's you know a minute

point like the the overarching story. I'm not

quite sure Why like Laura Croft's dad's like

hey, you know, you know when I'm old and you're

you know hitting like You know your stride you're

gonna there's gonna be this alignment and then

like you need to find it all But I don't know

why he wants her to find it if only just to keep

it away from the baddies But like he has the

first piece and if he were to just destroy it

or I don't know drop it in the ocean No one would

find it Before the next alignment, you know in

5 ,000 years or whatever So it's like he could

have just prevented this all by throwing that

clock in the ocean There's also a moment with

Laura Croft where she's like, or we could wait

and wait in 5 ,000 years. I'm like, yes, isn't

that what you want to do? Exactly what your point

is. The whole point that doesn't make sense is,

number one, if he's that much concerned with

her finding something in a certain time period

that you're only going to have one shot in 5

,000 years to do, why are we giving her riddles

and puzzles to solve? Why would you not just

say, hey, you need to do this. It's right here.

Pick it up. Whatever. And then on the flip side

of that, if you have one half of this thing that

could mean the world's gonna be destroyed, you

don't need to go to the location where the other

half is. Like, just do away with it. Like Matt

was saying, either the dad should have made it

disappear, or when Lara Croft has it, she should

have done something to make sure it was nowhere

near anything else. You don't need to go seeking

out the other half. That's the worst possible

idea, is to get these two things together. So

the plot makes no sense whatsoever. Amanda, you

haven't had a chance to chime in on the film

itself. Well, that's because, as usual, I'm on

a fucking island over here, just like, I enjoyed

the fucking movie. I had a blast with it. It

was super fun. I liked the bungee cord scene.

I was like, hey, if I had a lot of money and

I had a fucking mansion, I'd string up some bungee

cords and do some air ballet, too. Would you

also only button your shirt with one button for

some reason? It's like, really? If, yeah, if

I was like skinny as shit and wanted to show

off my rip like Jesus six pack, then yes, I would

do that. But, you come on, you can't explain

the... I don't need to explain anything. It's

a movie based on a video game. Like... I had

fun with it. I think that Laura's camaraderie

with the people that were in her life had some

fun little moments. I liked her little tech dude.

I thought he was funny. I thought that was fucking

Ben Mendelsohn, though. I was so convinced. I'm

like, holy shit, look how young he was. I actually

thought the same thing. I'm like, wow, I didn't

know he was in this movie. No way. I thought

it had some great side characters like fucking

Ser Jorah from Game of Thrones is in this dude

and he's bad. What about American Daniel Craig?

And American Daniel Craig. I thought it was funny,

right? You thought it was funny that he was American

and she was British? Yeah, I thought it was.

I mean, it's pretty ironic, but I thought that

the action was pretty solid. The whole characters

coming to life thing, I can kind of believe that,

like in The Tomb, like some crazy shit like that

happening, but the whole alignment thing, like

we really didn't need like some cosmic event,

like it could have been like the Holy fucking

Grail, like in, you know, Indiana Jones, but

something different, you know what I mean? of

like artifact that wasn't gonna open up a space

gate and let Kurt Russell through but as far

as like being able to enjoy it as a movie even

like if you didn't have experience with Lara

Croft I think that you would still have fun with

it as someone who didn't have experience with

Lara Croft I would But you're a fucking hater,

so... I just wanted more, I don't know, more

something to the plot or more puzzles for her

to solve. I thought she was supposed to be more

of this like, I don't know, as a Tomb Raider,

like that she has to do all those like archaeology

type things or figure out things and I just feel

like it kind of glossed over that aspect to just

show her kick -assery instead, which I guess

works for a lot of people, but... I wanted more

puzzles like Indiana Jones style. I mean it's

Angel Angeloi. Is she really that smart? Can

she pull off the sciency stuff? I mean at one

point Who was who was Denise Richards was a scientist

and James Bond? Yeah, that was not that's not

happening your cost Give you guys some numbers

here before we go further into this but I like

Matt said the budget here 115 million was the

budget and domestically it did make 131 so it

did make back its budget as far as domestic goes

and I think worldwide it was in the 270 range

274 million or so as far as our box office mojo

stats because they have lists of everything I

want to give you guys put you guys on the spot

for these ridiculous classifications here first

of all it is the ninth highest grossing treasure

hunt film ever I wonder what else is a treasure

anybody want Anybody want to guess at what is

beating it? There's eight films ahead of it in

the treasure hunt category. Matt, got any guess?

Is the King of the Crystal Skull beating it?

All four Indiana Jones films are beating it.

Well, I wanted the one that people liked the

least because that - All four of them, all four

of them are ahead of it. Three of them absolutely

deserve to be. That means there's only four other

films ahead of it. Amanda, any treasure hunt

films that you can think of? National Treasure.

National Treasure is ahead of it. Da Vinci Code?

Nope. Wow. There's one more set of three films.

Anybody? Don't they're qualifying this as a treasure

hunt apparently that there's three Pirates of

the Caribbean something like eight care parents

again yeah, but only three of them apparently

are ahead of it, so we for Indiana Jones and

National treasure are all ahead of there are

only four of them, right? I don't know how many

I think there's only four all right another classification

for you here It is the also it was ninth, but

most highest grossing treasure hunt film. It's

also the ninth highest grossing Action heroine

film a film with an a heroine Action heroine

I guess is how it's calling it So anybody have

any guesses as to what is ahead of it in that

category Amanda will start with you barbed wire.

Probably deserves to be though. I can't chime

in because actually um because I looked up the

the budget again and I was like what do you mean

the ninth highest action heroine and so I've

already opened that one. Gotcha. Dan any guesses?

The Underworld movies? Nope. That's a good guess.

There's some very recent films. With the counting

Star Wars? we should have been you know you're

you're not counting force awakens force awakens

is one of them that they're counting on that

uh action heroine uh the what about the resident

evil movies nope not above they didn't make more

than that there is uh four films in one franchise

though if any of you could figure that one out

uh the fast and furious movies is that nope we

got the four hungry oh i guess yeah obviously

And then we have the other ones that they're

qualifying as this would be Terminator 2, Mr.

and Mrs. Smith. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that her as

well? That is also her. And then the first Divergent,

the first one of those. Have all made more money

than that. So yeah, it's the ninth best action

heroine film as far as Box Office goes. And then

here we have it, guys. It is the number one grossing

video game adaptation. Wow. It's all downhill

from here, guys. No movie has made more. Does

it still hold that after Angry Birds? It's still

ahead of Angry Birds, as of when I checked this

last week here. Close well, I mean, it's I guess

you could say somewhat close. It's got about

20 25 million I think from the between the first

and the second place So we're not going to cover

a video game film that has made more than Tomb

Raider unless it is still out there making money

like Angry Birds or maybe a possibly Assassin's

Creed or something down the road. So currently

the leader Getting back into a little bit about

the film Dan, do you have anything, what does

it do best? What's the highlight? What's the

best part of Tomb Raider? Man, the best part

of Tomb Raider. I will say, even though I was

making fun of it, the Bungie sequence is probably,

there's some interesting, I would probably say

that's probably the best scene. For me, the best

part of Tomb Raider is what I hope Matt eventually

accomplishes, is when it presents us with the

best example ever to mash up. Two different things,

because the Wipeout scene is just absolutely

incredible. Towards the end, where the Tomb Raider

film becomes literally a scene out of the game

show Wipeout. And I just want to see you do that,

Matt. You've got to complete that. I've already

downloaded it. The problem is that I never watched

Wipeout. I watched the most extreme elimination

challenge, which is not different, but is different.

And I think their commentary is a lot funnier.

And so I'm trying to find a good one from there

to pull. But yeah, definitely. But I did find

a scene from Wipeout that literally has almost

the exact same setup as... It's the same. It's

the same exact setup as that scene in Doomrider.

Amanda, what's your favorite... I know you liked

a lot of it, but what is your pinpoint of favorite

aspect of this film? Oh, man. Um... Then don't

say Daniel Craig. I'm gonna say her outfits.

Her outfits. I thought you were gonna say her

accent. I'm like, yeah. No. Speaking of her outfits

because we were thrown off we watched this Matt

Amanda and I watched this together and we were

thrown off at the beginning the first couple

times we see Angelina Jolie because it seems

to be that there was some interesting Outfitting

going on in the chest area and here apparently

the video game Fanatics out there were absolutely

appalled when they cast Angelina Jolie as Tomb

Raider because they said she does not have a

big enough chest and this resonated I guess so

much or got enough traction that they actually

Had her she she's actually forced to wear a padded

Like they stuffed and padded or did whatever

to increase her cup size like multiple cups.

Are they also mad that they're not triangles

is that Hilarious and sad It was like lift and

separate to exercise your body. That's why it

looks so weird because I guess they did a lot

of manipulation to try to make it look like she

was a bigger -breasted individual, which I guess

I didn't realize was needed. And of course we

also have the trivia that her real father is

obviously playing her father in this film. I

don't ever call him John Boyd, I just call him

Angelina Jolie's dad. Any other last Thoughts,

final thoughts about Tomb Raider before we go

around and give grades, Dan? Man, whoever saw

this movie and still said, yeah, Daniel Craig,

you can be James Bond, kudos to you. Yeah, if

you saw this film, they couldn't have seen this.

They couldn't have seen this and said, you're

perfect for James Bond, because he is awful in

this. They probably saw Layer Cake and like that's

what we mean. Amanda, final thoughts on Tomb

Raider? Ah, I just had a lot of fun with it.

I think it's a cool action and adventure, sci

-fi little ride here. I think that it's got some

cool characters. Can't expect too much out of

it, but I think it does the game justice. I don't

expect anything out of any film we're watching

in the series actually at this point. Not anymore.

I liked it. I found out that I was excited to

watch it again. I'll probably watch it in the

future. I've seen the sequel just as many times.

You're going to watch the reboot when it comes

out. Definitely. I'm going to give this a 7.

7 out of 10? Dan, I forgot to get your grade

while you were giving your final thoughts. Oh,

3 out of 10. Just a slight difference between

them and Dan's score there. If you put them together

they equal 10 out of 10. Matt, what are your

final thoughts and what kind of grade would you

give this? For the record here, Dan threw out

the Rotten Tomatoes score of 19%. It has a 19

% critic score, 47 % fan score, which you say

is about average for this. That actually puts

it at the second highest for both. The only film

being in either category is Mortal Kombat. So

it is second best critically claimed Rotten Tomatoes

score with 19 % and the second best fan with

47 I wanted to love this movie. Like I think

I said that going in uh... not because i'm a

fan of laura croft but because i'm a fan of like

indiana jones and the like and i love a badass

female protagonist we do not get it enough in

hollywood and so it's like i just wanted to be

awesome indiana jones with a lady and proven

ladies can do just as well as guys and we didn't

get that i don't know if i'd ever watch it again

i would watch the sequel someone wanted to watch

the sequel i'd be like yeah i mean i just recently

watched the first one so why not So I guess I'll

meet in between Dan and Amanda. Give it a four.

I don't know what your definition is. It is in

between those two scores. I thought you were

going to say meet. Right in the middle there.

I am right in line with Matt and Dan on this

one. I don't fault Angelina Jolie. I think she

fits the character fine. I think some of the...

Details are seem like they come from the game

or you know gets that kind of praise and all

that type of stuff But I can't forgive a plot

that is so bad to have these things happening

and the whole crux of the whole Thing could so

easily be avoided by anybody that had like the

lowest IQ possible, so I can't get past that

so I'm gonna give this one But there was like

the curiosity factor like they wanted to see

what it was gonna. Do hey this could ruin the

world but They wanted to see how cool the fucking

event was going to be. And it was just weird

how they played that all out between her and

her dad and the Illuminati. Was the Illuminati

in the game? I doubt it. I don't know. Was Jay

-Z in the game? No. He might have been. Okay,

I think he still might be an Illuminati. Laura's

party mix is getting a three out of ten for me.

Score by the RZA. So that does it for this chapter

in the video game series. As you can see we are

having all kinds of fun going through this spotlight

here and it's gonna be interesting because I

don't know like we said this is the biggest box

office Success out of all the ones we're gonna

get so hopefully there was some Sleepers at the

box office that just ended up being better films

than than I'm remembering but Alright, so looking

at what we will visit next and when we rejoin

our video game spotlight we were in 2001 we're

gonna go just one year into the future to 2002

to see how another female lead handles things

I believe in Resident Evil. Amanda, what's your

excitement level? Pretty fucking excited, Kevin.

The Capcom game finds its way to the big screen.

The last Capcom game we talked about was Street

Fighter. Matt, Resident Evil, excitement, or

are you tired of this journey? How many of them

do we have to watch? Because there's like six

of them. You're just watching the first one.

I don't know if we could really get a feel for

it then. I loved Street Fighter, probably the

most of anything we've watched so far, so as

long as this is super campy and silly and I could

just shut my mind off, then we're set. You haven't

seen it before? If I have, it was in 2002 or

2003. Oh, man. The first one is things that are

made up of, like, your nightmares come from this

kind of movie. It's definitely scary. wig the

crap out of me when I was younger when I first

saw this. I think that I'm super interested now

to see if you like this. I think if you like

Blood Rain you should freaking like this movie

because I feel like it's... But Blood Rain isn't...

Blood Rain is exactly what I just said. Super

cheesy, campy, shitty. Like, this is not scary

in any way. This it's a little bit on the serious

side I will say that looks like we're gonna have

to wait to see how you guys Come down on this

one Dan any excitement for Resident Evil? Yeah,

I'm interested because uh, I actually saw a good

amount of those actually in theaters, I don't

know why but They were like a kind of a admitted

guilty pleasure. So but I've only seen the first

one once so because they After that they're just

like, yeah, let's not even do that again. Let's

do something completely different But I'm interested

in revisiting the original and seeing how it

holds up. Well a decade later. Once again, we're

not talking about Resident Evil after life or

retribution or extinction or apocalypse. We're

just talking the 2002 original Resident Evil.

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your comments. Are you more in Amanda's camp

in the 7 range or down with the guys in the 3

-4 range? And let us know what you agree or disagree

with as far as our critique on that film and

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Twitter is at OptimusSolo. So, Dan, yours? I'm

at Movie Revolt. Matt? I'm at Fridley's set.

Amanda? Hard Candy Mandy, eyes, no eyes. All

right, so that does it for this week. We look

forward to talking to you guys again on next

week's episode of The Cinema Games.