I think Tron Legacy is underrated, as you’ve just done.
I forget, but we split into separate groups when we went to see Tron Legacy. The others went to see some other Disney thing, and I remember thinking I’d have rather watched that instead. It might have been Tangled.
Tron: Legacy (2010) - I was trying to figure out why it took me so long to see this movie, and honestly there’s no explanation. Wanted to see it when it came out, never got around to it. Better late than never. Music’s great, visuals tend to be pretty good (though after awhile they verge on monotonous), some cool set pieces. Buuuut characterization across the board is pretty weak here, which I guess wouldn’t have been a problem if they weren’t trying to make everything so dramatic. But they did. B-
I would give it an even lower score just for the “happy ending” where the girl (who is literally a computer program rather than a real person who was sci-fi beamed into digital data) gets to come back to the real world with the protagonist for no reason other than “love interest.” I also didn’t like the movie very much regardless, but I’m not going to fling poo over differences in taste.
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I think Tron Legacy is underrated, as you’ve just done.
A “B-” is underrated? That’s like a “it was pretty good, but a bit lacking in important areas,” which he explained.
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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
Tron: Legacy (2010) - I was trying to figure out why it took me so long to see this movie, and honestly there’s no explanation. Wanted to see it when it came out, never got around to it. Better late than never. Music’s great, visuals tend to be pretty good (though after awhile they verge on monotonous), some cool set pieces. Buuuut characterization across the board is pretty weak here, which I guess wouldn’t have been a problem if they weren’t trying to make everything so dramatic. But they did. B-
I would give it an even lower score just for the “happy ending” where the girl (who is literally a computer program rather than a real person who was sci-fi beamed into digital data) gets to come back to the real world with the protagonist for no reason other than “love interest.” I also didn’t like the movie very much regardless, but I’m not going to fling poo over differences in taste.
Well they do explain that she’s a bit more than a computer program as she’s something that’s been created organically without Flynn’s involvement (what he calls a “miracle”), so I like the intent there, and they don’t really make the romance angle explicit. Still, she’s got so little dimensionality that the emotion that they want you to have of her entering the real world isn’t really earned in any way.
That’s fair, but I still think it’s a BS way for them to let him “get the girl in the end.”
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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
I forget, but we split into separate groups when we went to see Tron Legacy. The others went to see some other Disney thing, and I remember thinking I’d have rather watched that instead. It might have been Tangled.
This hurts my soul.
(And I’ve seen Tangled with my girls, it’s pretty good as far as that kind of movie goes. However, it’s that kind of movie.)
I think Tron Legacy is underrated, as you’ve just done.
A “B-” is underrated? That’s like a “it was pretty good, but a bit lacking in important areas,” which he explained.
Do I need to go all chyron on you and define “underrated?”
I think it’s better than B-, therefore I think he’s underrated it, as have many other people.
If it makes you feel any better, I like Tangled even less.
I’m sure I’d have had something to say about Tangled if I had seen it, either good or bad. More than Tron Legacy. All I remember is Shia LaBeouf was in it and Jeff Bridges had a creepy CGI double, way before the technology was ready for creepy CGI doubles.
Short Circuit (1986) - Amusing if slight story. Doesn’t do much to make me care all that much about anything going on. Cool robot I guess. C
We can’t be friends.
All I remember is Shia LaBeouf was in it
I guess you don’t remember it very well.
Short Circuit (1986) - Amusing if slight story. Doesn’t do much to make me care all that much about anything going on. Cool robot I guess. C
We can’t be friends.
This is like the fifth time this has happened. Is the second one worth watching?
The second is one of my favorite movies of all time, I even got S.S. Wilson to autograph my blu-ray copy. But “people” generally consider it worse than the first.
I liked Tangled, but I would’ve liked it even more in 2D animation.
The second is one of my favorite movies of all time, I even got S.S. Wilson to autograph my blu-ray copy. But “people” generally consider it worse than the first.
I might have to check it out at some point anyway. Don’t always agree with “people.”
I’m sure I’d have had something to say about Tangled if I had seen it, either good or bad. More than Tron Legacy. All I remember is Shia LaBeouf was in it and Jeff Bridges had a creepy CGI double, way before the technology was ready for creepy CGI doubles.
LaBeouf was not in the movie. And since the CGI was mostly used for Clu, Flynn’s evil digital doppelganger, it works for me.
Where were you in '77?
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I wonder if they even considered prosthetic makeup just for that shot? Or finding a Jeff Bridges double. Still not sure how GOTG2 pulled off a young Kurt Russell.
In any case the Daft Punk soundtrack is bliss. And the remix album is pretty good too.
And I still hope Tron 3 still happens. There’s a Tron coaster ride at Shanghai Disneyland that opened in 2016, and Disney World is supposed to get it in about three years.
Where were you in '77?
Tron: Legacy has its flaws, but God, is it gorgeous. Kosinski used to be a professor of architecture, and he has that Kubrick-style, hyper-precise, locked down aesthetic. It’s just fucking stunning visually.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Yeah, I can only imagine what his shelved remake of The Black Hole could have looked like.
Where were you in '77?
I liked Oblivion a lot more than most people seemed to, as well.
The Truman Show (1998)
I really enjoyed it! 9/10
Se7en (1995)
Pretty good! 8/10
I liked Oblivion a lot more than most people seemed to, as well.
Agreed, another underrated one.
I’m sure I’d have had something to say about Tangled if I had seen it, either good or bad. More than Tron Legacy. All I remember is Shia LaBeouf was in it
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