‘Tomb Raider’ First Look: Sophie Turner Becomes Lara Croft as Filming Starts on Prime Video’s Reboot Series
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When are they going to hire someone with the muscles Lara should have?
I'm fine with unrealistic body standards for unnaturally talented characters, but at least make it the right unrealistic body standard for what the character does!
Idunno man, Sophie's looking pretty ripped in this photo.
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Yea, they're all shorter than and more muscled than Lara, at least floor gymnasts. Any gymnast is more muscled than Lara has ever been canonically represented. (at least ones pulling off anything close to similar)
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I'm honestly surprised, she looks the part. The question is, can she act well enough to carry the role past the visual?
I watched every season of GOT and never saw her act once. She's so.... wooden is the only way I can describe it.
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Idunno man, Sophie's looking pretty ripped in this photo.
Not having fat is not the same as having muscles.
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Yea, they're all shorter than and more muscled than Lara, at least floor gymnasts. Any gymnast is more muscled than Lara has ever been canonically represented. (at least ones pulling off anything close to similar)
They're not "muscled". Lara can't do anything about her height anymore than you can. She's not a gymnast.
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They're not "muscled". Lara can't do anything about her height anymore than you can. She's not a gymnast.
If you don't think gymnasts are muscled, then you're simply too braindead to understand my critique in the first place...
Notice how my original comment was about how she's too skinny. I mention height because it has a huge impact on how the gymnasts look: Being short requires proportionally less muscle to pull off the same stuff. That's why floor gymnasts are usually short as hell, so they're flinging around even less mass. It's important to understand real life if you're going to compare.
I'm not saying she has to be some muscly shortstack. I'm saying it'd be nice if an athletic female character was represented as having an athletic build. They do it all the time for guys. Why does every female character have to be the most cliche variety of 'pretty'?!
She should at least look like she could do one pullup for how often she's, you know, pulling herself up in the games...
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I'm honestly surprised, she looks the part. The question is, can she act well enough to carry the role past the visual?
You probably need glasses.
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You probably need glasses.
Agreed. Anything more than 350 polygons is a betrayal of the original.
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I'm honestly surprised, she looks the part. The question is, can she act well enough to carry the role past the visual?
can she act well
No
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You're right, I saw many acrobats. They have muscles but still appear very skinny.
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If you don't think gymnasts are muscled, then you're simply too braindead to understand my critique in the first place...
Notice how my original comment was about how she's too skinny. I mention height because it has a huge impact on how the gymnasts look: Being short requires proportionally less muscle to pull off the same stuff. That's why floor gymnasts are usually short as hell, so they're flinging around even less mass. It's important to understand real life if you're going to compare.
I'm not saying she has to be some muscly shortstack. I'm saying it'd be nice if an athletic female character was represented as having an athletic build. They do it all the time for guys. Why does every female character have to be the most cliche variety of 'pretty'?!
She should at least look like she could do one pullup for how often she's, you know, pulling herself up in the games...
The male characters are often way too mucular though. It's also not realistic, they look like body builders.
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I don’t remember Lara Croft having muscles, just big tits.
Not big tits. Triangle tits.
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I don’t remember Lara Croft having muscles, just big tits.
the polygon tits of history.
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The male characters are often way too mucular though. It's also not realistic, they look like body builders.
Yea, it's usually over the top for them, too, but at least they're allowed to frigging have muscles when they need them.
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I can't really picture her as Lara, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Feels a bit like casting Tom Holland as Nathan Drake.
She's a good actress tbf. I'd watch the movie if it got good reviews though.
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Prime Video has unveiled a first look at the 'Tomb Raider' live-action series, showing Sophie Turner as Lara Croft.
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I watched every season of GOT and never saw her act once. She's so.... wooden is the only way I can describe it.
Most if not all of that was from the character. She was the stuck up big sister always trying to act proper, especially after her mom uh.. died.
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Most if not all of that was from the character. She was the stuck up big sister always trying to act proper, especially after her mom uh.. died.
Her acting hasn't been much different in the other things I've seen her in. It just worked out for the GOT character.
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Yea, it's usually over the top for them, too, but at least they're allowed to frigging have muscles when they need them.
The actors don't need them though, and I don't need actors to undergo extreme physical changes for me.
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The actors don't need them though, and I don't need actors to undergo extreme physical changes for me.
Nowhere did I say they should force actors to do anything. Why are you hellbent on failing to understand this most simple of ideas that women should be allowed to look muscular, too?
