Tron: Legacy

Saw it, loved it, but like most people said the story wasn't terribly great. However, even though it wasn't great, the art was beautiful. The action was also pretty awesome too, and the movie was such an improvement from the first movie obviously.

I'll admit, I never got around to seeing the original. I went to this with a totally open mind, and I thought it was pretty darned awesome. Story might not have been the best ever, but I didn't have any issues with it. And the movie itself was gorgeous. Loved the art style, and the designs of everything were awesome. Plus Daft Punk still rules- the soundtrack was extremely cool.

I like how some people thought Hans Zimmer wrote some of the music. He wrote zilch for this movie.


After seeing it a second time, I also think I've figured out why the computer metaphor went out the window: the Grid was designed as a place for programs to live, not really as a system to perform a task in the real world.

What was nice was they didn't try to force some bullshit technical explanation on us. The original didn't and it did just fine without it. Legacy is the same. Those details aren't necessary.

I also appreciate them not forcing a romance story down our throats. You catch a spark between them, but it doesn't go any further than that on-screen.

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Originally Posted by What I Liked:

- The Big Tron-owski that is Kevin Flynn
- Kevin Flynn's Techno-Monk getup. Very cool.
- New and improved light-vehicles
- Tron-David-Bowie

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Originally Posted by What I Didn't Like

- How awful the story reeked of Christian overture. (CLU may as well have been Clucifer, ISOs as Flynn's oppressed chosen people, Sam as a virtual son-of-god, etc.)
- The idea that Quorra, a representation of data whose virtual body is held together by what seems an intrinsic field designed to keep her from turning into billions and billions of tiny pieces, could be materialized in the real world. Note that I wouldn't have a problem with this if Sam hadn't bled on the game-field, showing us that the Grid, and the machine used to access it, makes an obvious distinction between human and data.

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This was a very cool movie. Loved it.

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Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack

This was a very cool movie. Loved it.

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I'd agree with your criticism of Quorra being able to materialize, but then again, she is an ISO- maybe since they're naturally created lifeforms, they have some special ability? I know, grasping for straws, but it's something.

Edit: Of course, they're all concerned about CLU being able to get through, so idk. Flynn's disk is just that badass :P

By definition, getting into the Grid is having yourself turned into data. It is logical that data can therefore be given a physical form in this world using that same information; think of it as an auto-mobile storage unit. I don't have any problem with Quorra being materialised, as long as she doesn't manifest super powers in this world. I also think that ISO tattoo should still be present on her arm if it isn't.

^ Like I said, Warsaw, that would have been fine if Sam hadn't bled on the Grid. Because of that, it makes a lot less sense.

Eh, I think of the bleeding like a piece of marker code that classifies a program as genuine or not. In this case, it marks him as a user as opposed to a program or an ISO.