Diminishing Returns: The Movie Podcast About Sequels, Prequels, Spin-offs And Reboots

With the release of a new Tomb Raider film, Allen and Chris look back at Angelina Jolie’s pair….of films. This month sees the release of a Tomb Raider reboot with Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft so it’s a perfect time to look back at the Angelina Jolie starring duo of films, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider: Cradle Of Life. It would, of course, be all too easy for this episode to devolve into a bunch of jokes about boobs. So we totally do that. In this episode: Will we ever get a good computer game adaptation? What Americans think of England Good bad guy casting Hey, it’s Daniel Craig! Hey, it’s Gerard Butler! The poor planning of shadowy criminal conspirators and their nemeses. And the physics of planetary alignment Remind yourself of the films here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft:_Tomb_Raider and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft:_Tomb_Raider_%E2%80%93_The_Cradle_of_Life EPISODE POSTERS AT https://www.facebook.com/pg/DiminishingReturnsPod/photos/ We are an independent podcast, so reme