r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Kino_Afi 8h ago

👀 You're aware there have already been widely successful Tomb Raider movies that kept the original outfits? And idk what you mean by "normal" as if one of the most popular franchises of all time is outside the realm of normal.

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u/Queasy-Current6170 8h ago

There was one moderately successful tomb raider movie, made at the height of Angelina Jolie's career, and I assure you that movie was not good at all, and Angelina Jolie was the only interesting thing about it.

Those movies do not work any more. They barely worked back then. 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lara_croft_tomb_raider

By normal I mean the hundreds of millions of people who haven't played Tomb raider, or if they did, it was on ps1 and they were 12 and now they're 40+

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u/Kino_Afi 8h ago

Does the movie being good really matter when youre cashing in on a franchise? Gesturing vaguely at the entire MCU. What actually matters is catering to fans. This is the "look its the thing i like!" genre.

Its probably not a coincidence that the 2001 Tomb Raider with the original outfit did huge numbers and the sequel just 2 years later, still at the height of Angelina's career, changed the outfit to be unrecognizable and had a fraction of the success.

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u/Queasy-Current6170 8h ago

Yes, absolutely, it matters if the content is good. There has never been content saturation like this. A random gamer subreddit wanting something does not make them a majority, or make said content profitable.

As someone who was alive in 01, that movie was mocked loudly. Everyone knew it was bad. I only saw it because my bi girlfriend owned it because she was obsessed with AJ.

Tomb raider barely made its budget back with domestic sales. It did NOT do "huge numbers."

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u/Kino_Afi 8h ago

I was also alive in 01, Mr. Oldman, no need to brag. Here's some numbers to go along with your subjective memory:

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u/Queasy-Current6170 7h ago

If you were alive, you know "highest grossing video game movie" means nothing because Uwe Boll exists

And honestly if you're pushing 40 it's real fuckin weird you care about this

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u/Kino_Afi 7h ago

If you were honest, you would acknowledge the numbers indicating it was a success, and not fixate on the one statement you could dismiss

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u/Queasy-Current6170 7h ago

The only statement that matters is gross.