![]() Lara Croft: Tomb Raider's problems are rudimentary and fundamental – and represent a profound lack-of-vision & complete conceptual laziness which should have been evident from the outset. It's difficult to imagine how no one noted this movie's apocalyptic suckiness before it was too late to resolve such issues. In this instance, they were right to be concerned about how people will receive their swirly turd of a movie. The point being: yes, filmmakers often do know when their product is troubled. At the time of this posting, it's still unclear whether West will remove his name from the project. Then rampant rumors emerged, suggesting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider director Simon West ( Con-Air, The General's Daughter) was contemplating having his name/credit removed from the film after teams of editors (including editorial god Stuart Baird – who edited Superman: The Movie and was employed to "fix" an apparently broken Mission: Impossible II shortly before its release) failed to resolve LC:TR's catastrophic narrative deficiencies. And, if they eventually managed to find their way into a screening, they were promptly asked to sign an agreement not to review the film until its opening day (an effort to diminish negative word-of-mouth before the movie's Friday opening). While online journalists weren't exactly shut-out of advance screenings of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Internet press in my neck of the woods had a tough time getting information about screenings of the film. a review can be online an hour after someone see a movie). When a movie blows, the Public Relations firms who handle these advanced screenings (for the studios) often try to prevent online "journalists".like myself & fellow Austinite Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool om reviewing a movie too early – due to Internet publications' near-instantaneous turnaround time (i.e. It's the same glacier seen in Bond movie Die Another Day, and about 20 miles east of icy landscapes seen in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.Īnother bit of British fakery has Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, briefly standing in for the steamy 'Cambodian jungle' as Lara sprints through the undergrowth.I first figured Lara Croft: Tomb Raider might arrive FUBAR when much of Austin's online media didn't receive word regarding advanced screenings of the film. ![]() The 'Siberian' location is Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, formed by the retreating Vatnajokull glacier – the largest in Europe – on the southeast coast of the country, about 40 miles east of Skaftafell National Park and 250 miles from Reykjavik. It’s not a terribly long flight – the arrival was filmed on Salisbury Plain also in Hampshire (it’s costly to fly ’copters out to Iceland, which was standing in for ‘Siberia’. Lara boards the ’copter for ‘Siberia’ at RAF Odiham, in north Hampshire. The 1965 film of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, with Peter O’Toole, is one of the few other films to be shot at Angkor Wat. There’s no public transport between the monuments, so check for guided tours. The village was no more than a set built around a small ornamental pond.Īs Cambodia recovers from its troubled past, a modest tourism industry is beginning to blossom, learning to balance economic gain with inevitable concerns about the effect on the ancient buildings. The most famous, Angkor Wat itself (the largest religious monument in the world and a World Heritage site), looms over the Cambodian village. The most spectacular temple of all, entwined with enormous trees, where Croft encounters the mysterious girl, is Ta Prohm. ![]() She tools up and scoots off in her Land Rover in front of the sacred Bayon Temple, in Angkor Thom, its 54 towers, each bearing four enigmatic smiling faces. ![]() The Cambodian temple complex, where Croft must retrieve the half of the triangular MacGuffin, is at Siem Reap in Cambodia, where she arrives, with game-style ease, onto Phnom Bakheng, a hill topped by a Hindu temple (though the site later became a Buddhist centre). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider location: the temple complex: Angkor Thom, Cambodia | Photograph: iStockphoto / xuujie
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