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October 02, 2003
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'Tomb Raider' Video Game Blamed for Film Failure

Disappointed movie bosses are pointing the finger of blame at video game Tomb Raider - Cradle Of Life after the Angelina Jolie-starring sequel of the same name bombed at the box office. Executives at Paramount were left stunned when the much-hyped action movie took only $21.8 million on its first weekend at the American box office, less than half of what the original installment bagged in the same time frame. And they cite the critical mauling given to the latest computer game as the reason cinema goers are deserting the archeological franchise. Paramount's Wayne Lewellen says, 'The only thing we can attribute to is that gamers were not happy with the latest version of the video game.'

I guess that says it all. The fact that it was a sequel to an abominably awful movie that did well solely due to its novelty, a geek fixation on a computer generated sex doll and a marked similarity between Angelina Jolie's boobies and that of the aforementioned pixelated fantasy figure had nothing to do with it. The additional facts of Angelina Jolie being revealed to posess the acting prowess of a turnip and having multiple psychoses plus the sequel having the exact same plot as the original had even less to do with this movie's box office performance.

UPDATE (SBD): I've just learned that H (aka "Helen", aka "Lithe Nimble-Bodied Chick", aka "The Fairy Menace") is a huge fan of the Tomb Raider movies. Not only did she see both of them multiple times in the theater but she purchased several copies of each on DVD to "do her part to support the franchise". Furthermore, many of her detailed sexual experiences were actually just sessions when she watched Cradle of Life, an experience that she feels is "incredibly orgasmic". That cobbled together electronic pleasure device that we all thought was a vibrator? Nope. VCR remote.

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