Tomb Raider

Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) lives her life poor, and is sort of bad at things. In between delivering food on her bike she’s a fighter, but gets her ass kicked in the ring. She participates in bike race fox hunt things that lame script writers throw in to add excitement, but she just ends up hit by a car. She’s doing everything she can to avoid the fact that her father, Richard Croft (Dominic West), disappeared when she was a child. Never to return. Lara has chosen the life of a loser to avoid signing her father’s death papers, and receiving the Croft fortune.

When she’s finally convinced by an executive of the Croft company to sign her father’s death papers she also receives a cryptex. The easiest cryptex to solve ever. This sets off a series of events that cribs from the Indiana Jones series, The Da Vinci Code, National Treasure, and 28 Days Later. Not surprisingly, it does none of this well.

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You’re An Idiot: Indiana Jones

This series will examine baffling decisions and characters from popular films.

Not only is Indiana Jones the worst archeologist* in the history of archeology, but he regularly hands his helpless Nazi enemies the items they are looking for without them even trying.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark after being informed of the Nazi’s scheme to find the Ark of the Covenant, Indy rushes to his old flame Maid Marion because she has a medallion that will pinpoint where the Ark is located in the ancient Egyptian city of Tanisha. So far, so good! Maid Marion isn’t aware that Nazis are up to no good, and Indiana needs to get that to protect her AND keep the bad guys from the Ark. It pretty much all goes awry from there, however.

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