Thoughts on clips for Tomb Raider (2018)

Also Lara needs someone else to point out that the symbols on the pages of her fathers notes which are obviously Japanese clock hands, I watch a lot of anime so I'm use to seeing what Japanese clock hands look like. The boat captain is also able to figure this out in one second but Lara, someone who should have been able to figure out the moment she saw these symbols has to be told by the boat captain what the symbols are. Let me repeat that, Lara Croft, someone who has spent her life researching other cultures in order to uncover history needed to be told the blindingly obvious on something that most teenagers in high school know due to just watching anime.

The reason for this, unprecedented lack of common knowledge, is because the film makers are trying to make Lara seem imperfect and what better way to do that then for her to miss something that should have taken her seconds to work out? And characters flaws have nothing to do with thing like feeling of personal guilt, making mistakes, or a sense of self hatred due to the feeling that you let someone you loved down. Nooo!!!! It's about making your character look really stupid because Heaven forbid Lara has her own agency or competence, or the characters she had know for years vs. some random asshole who she barely knows but he seems to know her father which of course didn't happen in either Survivor or Rise as the people who knew Lara's father also knew her so we could see how losing them was equivalent to her losing her father all over again except for Sam and Jonah who were her own person circle of friends who had no real connection to her father because the clearly no one wants that touchy feely crap which is actually something a lot of fan actually loved about the reboot series and GOD THIS MOVIE IS STUPID!!! ARGH!!!!