Even a loaded pistol pointed at my manly hydraulics wouldn't be enough to make me watch this movie. I barely made it through watching it once.
I agree with you 1000% Tron Legacy S U C K E D !!!!
Even a loaded pistol pointed at my manly hydraulics wouldn't be enough to make me watch this movie. I barely made it through watching it once.
You know what? I am actually going to retract some of the things I have said earlier.. Legacy was on one of the movie channels the other night and I watched it again..I will have to admit that this time I really enjoyed it. It's still not the Tron movie I would have liked but it really is NOT a bad movie.
The disc war is really cool...The light cycle game, while still not what I wanted, was indeed pretty cool...The music is awesome.
The cinematography is really good. I may get blasted for saying this--but there is a lot of a "Kubrick" feel to the look of this film. The stark contrasts of color, the linear perspective, the lighting--all kind of reminded me of 2001 and Clockwork Orange....
There is also a lot of Bladerunner going on in this movie.
I think this thread has helped me appreciate this film more than I did before. I think I was finally able to let go of what "I wanted" and just go with it. And I really enjoyed it the most on this 6th or 7th viewing.. Looking deeper into more of the underlying motivations of the charactors, that have been explained here, opened my eyes a little bit.
So bravo you guys! I am always willing to admit if I am wrong and I think I was.
I still have a few nitpicks though; no 90 degree turns on the lightcycles and I wish that when they had done some of the flashbacks of Flynn and Tron they had done that in the style of the first movie. It could have been a little different but I think it would have helped to tie the two movies together. And I still think the Rinzler/Tron deal was not played up enough. It still seems like an afterthought to me..
BUT, all that said, I have changed my opinion of this movie:thumbsup
Ditto. I saw it twice in the cinema, liked it a bit more than mildly - but having it on bluray I am now a raving, drooling fanboy.
The thought of popping it in the player actually provokes an endorphin rush. I love this film!
Just the other day I was thinking about the music soundtrack and how good I thought it was. I had never heard of Daft Punk before this movie, so I decided to check them out on YouTube.
Wow, I have to say I could not find one single song I could sit through. Just absolutely not my cup of tea. Every single song is "let's drop some Ecstacy and go to a gay rave club"....But that's just my opinion, if you like their stuff more power to you, everybody likes different things. I'm not trying to pass judgement on it... But man, I am so glad I did not follow my first instinct and buy a cd of this techno crap. I was really hoping I would like some of their music, as I absolutely loved the soundtrack to this movie..But sorry, their other stuff is totally not for me...
Honestly, the music in T:L that much like rave music at times. To me, their score reminded me more of Philip Glass' work on Koyaanisqatsi than it did of anything else they worked on in part or in whole. I mean, I've listened to a lot of songs from Daft Punk, such as Harder Better Faster Stronger, Around the World and Something About Us. I've even listened to the score for the movie Irreversible done by Thomas Bangalter, one half of the Daft Punk duo.
By the mentality that the T:L score sounds like rave music, I'm sure the same argument can be made for the original film's score and like only a small number of songs from the film. But, the fact is that the score fits the subject matter (much like how the original score fit the subject matter of the original). If you don't like all the soundtrack, that's fine. I myself only like the song Outrage from the Irreversible soundtrack.
You obviously did not read my post, and only skimmed it.
But I NEVER said I didn't like the soundtrack. In fact, I stated twice that I DID like the soundtrack...
No!!! I never EVER said I only liked some of the tracks on the soundtrack. Where are you getting that? I said I liked the soundtrack and did not like their other stuff!!!
It's all cool, man..I was just getting frustrated when you kept saying I said something that I did not. Even after I informed you that you had misread my post, you were still insisting that I said something that I did not.