[PIGMI] TRON the Movie (was RE: Tron the Game)

[Brendan Ragan]

Wow. 

Okay a few random thoughts:
1) On the whole "Tron is a long Daft Punk Video Clip" - yes, it could be taken that way (I'm very much in the "Daft Punk did a great job on the soundtrack" camp) - though that's already been done much better by "Interstella 5555" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem) which arguably has a more sensical plot than TRON: Legacy :)

2) TRON: Legacy's script is what you get when you design a movie by committee - there are things that are Chekov'ed early on that never eventuate (Sam Flynn's pickup of the spare lightcycle/lightflyer controls which is never used for example), the Quorra Character's change in personality from kick-ass fighter to helpless princess, the extraordinarily poor exposition at the start of the film. The Speech given by CLU 2.0 to his converted soldiers (!?). CLU 2.0 tracing Sam's stolen lightcycle back to the cave, but Flynn never mentions that this could happen and yet yells at Sam later on in the film for it. Normally Disney doesn't do this poor a job - I suspect this film was a rush job. 

3) Effects-wise, I think they did a pretty good job *other* than Clu 2.0 - which falls into the uncanny valley so badly at points it detracts whenever he's on screen. It's interesting too - the same capture stuff that was used on Avatar was used here - again, I suspect there wasn't enough time given to this film to complete the effects to the required standard. 

I liked the film, but it's not a good movie. For me it traded a LOT on the nostalgia I have for the earlier film (which I enjoy, I have the 20th Anniversary edition etc.). 

Now I'm going to say something that people are probably not going to like :P 

For Disney, TRON: Legacy is *all about* trading on that nostalgia and using it to create another new IP to (in Activision parlance) exploit. The video game(s) (yes there are more coming) are an example of this. There are two TV shows in pre-production (http://www.movieweb.com/news/disney-confirms-tron-legacy-tv-series-in-the-works) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/) etc. Which begins to explain the mess that is the movie's script and some of the effects.

I had a lot of time for Tron, time will tell if the nostalgia is enough for me to look past the flaws and buy into this new Content Kingdom Theme Park the mouse is about to open. 
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