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Beowulf - anyone else got deja vu?
Sarah Dobbs
Posters for the new Beowulf movie are everywhere right now. But is it only Sarah, or does anyone else have a creeping feeling they've seen this somewhere before?
Published on Nov 8, 2007
I've been seeing trailers for Beowulf being posted all over the place lately, as well as pictures from the premiere, and various other bits of news and gossip. And a lot of the time, that CGI-tastic image of Angelina Jolie - stepping out of the water, dripping with gold paint, a long braid whipping around her - has cropped up.
Which makes sense, since Angelina Jolie is an A-list star, and she's naked and gold in the movie.
But I think I've been having some weird cognitive dissonance over it, because my brain kept interpreting it as an image from Tomb Raider. One Google Image search later, and I'd figured out why - because it looks almost exactly the same as the Tomb Raider promo shots. Same hair, same pose, same actress. In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, she even wore a skin-tight silver outfit. Change the lighting, and you'd never know the difference.
Weird.
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Re: Beowulf - anyone else got deja vu?
Posted By Robmac 1 November 8, 2007 12:18:56 PM
Re: Beowulf - anyone else got deja vu?
Posted By RonHogan 1 November 8, 2007 01:22:37 PM
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Demon, or tomb raider?
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