So we've had some gaming inspired films.
Ready Player One has explicit game themes.
As did Wreck it Ralph.
Jumanji the 2017 is as well, and the original one has board game inspirations.
Edge of Tomorrow. I've seen some compare to respawns.
I found the hits Lara Croft takes interesting in this film. That's different then many action heroes, then extent of damage she takes. It did make me a little uncomfortable at times but the differing framing I found interesting.
It is faithful to the 2013 Tomb Raider game. That had some very disturbing scenes of Lara taking hits, as well as some death and torture scenes that were very brutal.
They toned it down a lot in the sequel game.
Cutscene videos of the 2013 game on youtube lead to death scene compilations, some in other languages with tags like リョナ and ソフトリョナ and エログロ which google translate says is soft ryona and ero guro. Not helpful since they aren't really English words and instead phonetic transliterations, but searching those words reveal more, which is apparently some sort of BDSM sadism type fetishism except cranked up even more?
It seems a little unsettling for me, even if its just to a fictional character, but I suppose in most cases is maybe harmless enough and not a sign of bad influence.
I liked the film overall, but had some issues.
I disliked how Lara lost some agency near the middle and end imo.
During these sections she's less of a main character and more of a viewpoint character. Sure she is still on screen, and has a lot of screentime. But often times just acts as a camera person, where things happen around her, but her just observing. Or sometimes just things happening to her. I expected something like an action or survival film like The Revenant or Die Hard. Things happen to her and she gets through rough spots, but she powers on despite this a little more.
Or, it's the Kickstarter campaign video for the sequel.
