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This Movie is a Indiana Jones RIP-OFF!

posted 18 years ago by Jammer81386
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Has anyone else noticed the several parallels between this film and in the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Here is just a few.

The movie starts with Lara(Female Indy) venturing into a acient temple looking an orb(Golden Idol), the orb is stolen from her by Reisse(Belloq) and the site collapses. During her escape she is threatened by a shark(snake).

Later, she is approached by two british agents who need her skills and knowledge of the artifact.

In Raiders Indy is approached by two american agents who need his skills and knowledge of the artifact.

Also but converstations include a reference to sunday school
Lara: "Well, thats the sunday school version."
Indy: "Any of you guys go to sunday school."

Lara decides she need help and goes to a snowy location to find terry.(love interest)
Indy needs helps and goes to a snowy location to find Marion.(love interest)

The orb, the Lara carries around her neck, is also very similar to the headpiece that Marion carries around her neck. And the both are used to located the resting place of the artifact. Cradle of life and the Well of th Souls.

The final similarity is when Lara is forced to kill terry because she knows that the Box is to powerful to be in human hands. This echos the scene in Last Crusade where Elsa dies trying to obtain the Holy Grail. Both characters are to obssesed with the material value of the object and both die because of their ignorance and greed.

These are just the most noticeable of the similarities between the two movies.

[–] FeiLongEX 18 years ago

Yes yes, every adventure movie is an Indiana Jones rip off

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[–] TrueBlood060993 18 years ago

Ohh everything a rip-off, if u didnt know this game was really based on indiana jones except for a girl instead of a boy...and who cares i dont see indiana jones making Really good games/!/!/!/!/!/!/

[–] sakura_alley 17 years ago

Actually, Indiana Jones has great games! Haver heard about The Fate of Atlantis??? Ha!

[–] A_Boy_And_His_Dog 18 years ago

dumbass.

biggest moron in history.

oh damn.

Groovy.

[–] Andy-JH 18 years ago

Tomb raider the game is based of Indiana Jones, they where going to have a male lead in the game. But they thought it was too much like Indy. So basicllly Tomb Raider is a movie of a game of a movie.

[–] Emimoimes 18 years ago

...and Indiana Jones is a Doc Savage rip-off! Let's tell all these people to stop making movies since they're bound to base it on something! :P

[–] ExtraBrann 18 years ago

Lara has GUNS! That is very different from Indy :) He just has a little wip :P

[–] FemTardFrequency 18 years ago

...the sequal is just a plain rip-off...i hope Croft has a whip an leather chaps in the third one

[–] Jammer81386 18 years ago

Lara Croft is not what makes this a rip-off, what makes it a ripp-off is that the events That happen in Cradle of Life are parallel to the events that happen in the Indiana Jones Series.

[–] alpha0201 18 years ago

what is not these days?

[–] Ministry666 18 years ago

I think the whole creation of Lara Croft from Eidos was alot to do with the Indian Jones franchise. But the movie was always going to have the Indian Jones feel since its written by Hollywood writers. The only thing that seperates the two franchises is that Tomb Raider's leading actor is a women and seeing Angelina Jolie be that leading actor is great is has class, sexy and can act if necessary!

[–] IndigoGem 18 years ago

To the person who started this thread, if you played the game before then you will know that this is how Tomb Raider is. You're pathetic go get your facts straight before running your mouth.
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[–] Jammer81386 18 years ago

Yeah I have my facts straight and I can see that ,as I had said before, that many parts in the cradle of Life and very similar to the parts that take place in the Indiana Jones Trilogy, That is a FACT, accept it.

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[–] sponix 17 years ago

Indy using a gun to, sometimes. Dum***

[–] SpiritWolf57 18 years ago

big freaking deal
so they have similarities
all movies are influenced by eachother and its really rare to have an original story line that doessnt have similarites
lara croft is not a rip off of indiana jones
it was a game first that was just intended to be for entertainment in the 90's

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[–] SuperMarioBros3 18 years ago

Where do you think Indiana Jones came from you idiot? It was a rip off of the countless amount of books, literature and story that was written. Quit jumping on the bandwagon and learn something for once.

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[–] Jammer81386 18 years ago

" It was a rip off of the countless amount of books, literature and story that was written"

No it was influenced by them. Where as this film has several gags and events that are very similar to those that take place in the Indiana Jones Franchise. Can you not tell the difference between a ripoff and an influence.

[–] SuperMarioBros3 18 years ago

Can you not tell the difference between being sarcastic and not?

[–] rgibson103 17 years ago

That, and they had a bunch of Rancor monsters from Jedi in it.

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[–] rgibson103 17 years ago

Well, it's like this: remember back in the eighties when a good movie would come out and then there'd be a slew of cheap knock-offs filmed in Italy? Lara Croft is highly derivative of Jones ... but most people would rather stare at a woman's posterior for the duration of one's attention to the game. Same goes for the films. I've seen worse films; mediocre films are the ones that are truly forgettable.

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[–] angussu 17 years ago

I always consider Lara Croft to be the female version of Indiana Jones.

[–] bknylife 17 years ago

Hey stupid, this is from a video game, and trust me, no one will mistaken this garbage for a indiana jones flick. I think they should remake the entire series from scratch.