Angel of Darkness blamed for poor box office

Producers of the movie Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life blame the game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness for the film\'s poor box-office performance.

According to a Reuters report, Paramount Pictures believes that Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life\'s relatively poor box-office performance ($21.8 million in its first weekend) is due to the reception of Eidos Interactive\'s Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness game, which was released on the PlayStation 2 and the PC. "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 told the news agency.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventu...ws_6072539.html


they both sucked

The movie did poorly because the movie sucked !!

Hey, i was about to post this!!

From pc.ign.com

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July 28, 2003 - Yahoo news posted an article today (thanks Voodoo) about our buxom friend Lara Croft. It seems that Paramount is trying to lay a bunch of the blame on the below average opening to Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life on Eidos\'s recently released, and almost unanimously hated, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. What they forgot to add was that people remember how crappy the first movie was as well, and therefore had little to no interest in wasting another 8-10 dollars on another piece of crap movie. Not even Angelina Jolie\'s hotness is going to get as many moviegoers to fork over the cash after last year\'s horrific movie debut for the heroine.

Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said, "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." The only thing, huh? There\'s nothing like a healthy dose of denial to keep a guy happy. When pretty much everybody is panning the movie for being horribly lame, maybe you should take a step back and take a look on the inside instead of playing the blame game. Yes, Eidos and Core made a really bad game, but Paramount also made a really bad movie. Twice. Us stupid people have short memories, but it\'s much harder to forget traumatic experiences like the first Tomb Raider movie. Why would as many people willfully subject themselves to another? I say be thankful it did that well.
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IMO: The first movie is a HORROR with the only saving grace is U2\'s title track "Elevation", which later won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance.

AOD is utter piece of shit...but with so many good movies recently(T3, Hulk, Charlie\'s Angel, Bruce Almighty etc etc ), just about anything is a better option than another crappy TR movie!!! AOD being crap has nothing to do with TR:COL doing piss poor.

And oh yeah, I did watch the first movie and the horrifying experience is still in my mind, I ain\'t gonna make the same mistake twice. Jolie\'s boobs ain\'t worth the 2 hours of torture inside the dark room.

Originally posted by Paul


...but with so many good movies recently(T3, Hulk, Charlie\'s Angel, Bruce Almighty etc etc ), just about anything is a better option than another crappy TR movie!!!

Haha, T3, Hulk, Charlie\'s Angels and Bruce Almighty all suck hairy balls. I hope you were being ironic...

me too

[Kurt Angle]

I had a go on the game yesterday and is really does suck the big one, the controls are unplayable. I couldn\'t even get lara to jump across a gap, just fell to my death every time. I hope Core go bankrupt.

Originally posted by JP
Haha, T3, Hulk, Charlie\'s Angels and Bruce Almighty all suck hairy balls. I hope you were being ironic...

I agree on Hulk and Charlie\'s Angels, but T3 was okay (just okay, though) and Bruce Almighty was quite funny).