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Tomb Raider: Can it Do the 2013 Game of the Year Justice?

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If we were to discuss “video game” adaptations for the big screen, I believe the general consensus is that Hollywood just can’t get it right. Maybe, it’s because when we immerse ourselves into a game, like Tomb Raider, we spend countless hours, days even, with the main character and build a connection that the third-person viewing aspects of the theater just can’t grasp.

That being said, the newly released Tomb Raider film makes a valiant effort to bring the franchise’s tenth title and 2013 Game of the Year to life, but sadly will end up atop the pile of B-rate flicks to watch when it hits your preferred streaming platform.

The story itself is picked apart and put back together for what I can only assume was supposed to be more “realistic”. This isn’t a huge problem, until we get to character development. Without any spoilers, a true Lara Croft fan will enjoy Alicia Vikander’s performance but will be downright pissed off when you are provided the expositional narrative of her life before embarking on her journey to Yamatai, the island on which her origin story takes place.

Once the island is reached in the film, the action sequences are pretty badass, and this is where the video game nostalgia will hit home. This is where I found most of my enjoyment, as they re-enacted key points in the gameplay, such as solving puzzles to save their lives and pulling off impossible leaps and bounds to escape mortal danger.

What disappointed me the most, besides character development, was the choice of setting. The island of Yamatai is supposed to be in the middle of the most treacherous part of ocean off the coast Japan, the Dragon’s Triangle. It is a place that’s nearly impossible to reach and even harder to leave, but once they arrive after being shipwrecked in a storm that fits that narrative, the rest of the film looks as if they are on a tropical island where at any moment some dude in a Hawaiian shirt is going to present himself and offer up a mai-tai. With bright hues of yellow always washing out the scenery, it really diminished the quality of work and made it obvious that it was a film set.

So, if you take the good with the bad and understand that film adaptions of our beloved video games will just never get it 100% right, it will ease the pain of knowing this is only the first of what I can assume will be a trilogy with the ending cliffhanger showing no signs of progress in the right direction.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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