Tomb Raider: new Lara, Daddy Croft, and Indiana Jones ripoffs - discuss with spoilers

The rebooted Lara Croft video game crossover is aiming to reignite moviegoers' passion for action archaeology. So do you dig Alicia Vikander's interpretation, or are you still in the Angelina Jolie camp?

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Video game adaptations have a long history of being, well " mostly completely terrible, thanks largely to the vapid efforts of one Uwe Boll. And even the most ardent Angelina Jolie fan would presumably admit that the Tomb Raider movies were hardly the Oscar-winner's finest hour. So why would Alicia Vikander, Hollywood It girl and current art house dahling, sign up to star as Lara Croft in a reboot of the action-adventure series? Were there no Marvel superhero parts available?

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