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.