How long was Flynn in there?
20 years, according to the film.
Why did he age in the computer?
Unclear, but perhaps because he wasn't a program, he ages in real time, outside of the cycle timeframe of the grid. But remember in the original Tron, there was Dumont, who also was supposedly very old.
Flynn created a new Grid back in the late 80's after realizing it's potential in the first movie. And when you become CEO and President of a Multi-Billion dollar company like ENCOM, you probably can just "do stuff" like that.
In that sea of computers at the beginning?
No, those were ENCOM's private servers. Most likely the Grid was held entirely in the Computer located in Flynn's Private office underneath the arcade. he had a small server farm down there too. Though he could be hooked into ENCOM's mainframe, I don't think so, becuase someone would've noticed that Flynn's computer was hooked into their grid and checked out his private office when Flynn went missing in 1989 (at least I'd hope to think they would).
If they are programs, why have limitations like we have in the physical world? Instead of flying a plane, why not just grow wings?
Good Question. A very
Matrix like one at that (e.g. When neo gets good enough at manipulating the matrix, he is able to bend the laws of physics inside it to his will, thus Neo doing his "superman thing" as other characters refer to it). I would surmise that it is a) because these programs seem to be made in the image of their "god", so therefore they can't just manifest wings any more than we can in the real world. If you have a good enough programmer, like Flynn was, then you can probably trifle with their DNA, like how Quorra got her Arm back Or it could be b) they wanted to show off as many cool vehicles to justify thier CGI Budget, sell toys, and/or it was in the script.
How did Sam just walk out of the police station?
The fact that he knows the name of the guy who he needs to get his motorcycle out of impound from and refers to him on a personal level, kinda infers that he's had legal troubles before and goes in and out of jail regularly. Either that, or as he is the majority stockholder in ENCOM, as the defacto "owner" of the company, he probably said he didn't want to press charges against himself and was released. And even if that's not the case, Sam is virtually a billionaire, so I'm sure posting Bail was NO issue.
If all the people in the Tron world are programs and they have a specific purpose, why do they have time to sit around and watch motorcycle races?
Well, it seems like Flynn was creating his Grid to be basically another world, not a grid where a single program is appropriating other programs from around the net. No one said they were accounting programs, or Tax Programs, or Defense Programs, like in the original tron. It just seems like Flynn created a sandbox grid and gave all the programs in it Autonomy. The problem with that, is you are bound to program something that takes it's autonomy and becomes megalomaniacal. Hence CLU. Also, if there was no one there to watch the games, we wouldn't have the cool Games scene! Logic need not enter into it! :cool
Did Flynn's computer house seem very 2001-ish?
Yeah a bit. But I think most humans see the entire aspect of futuristic design as "backlit everything", so it kinda makes sense.
When Sam entered the Tron world, it was very anti-climatic. I was wondering how they would show the whole digitization journey, but there was just a bang and the room looks no different.
True, that was a bit disappointing. I was hoping for more of a higher tech version of the block by block digitizing that was done to Flynn in the first movie. But I think they wanted to throw us right into the action. I was also disappointed that we didn't focus at all on very much of the ENCOM based stuff either. Why hire a name like Cillian Murphy to play Dillinger's son if you're not going to use him for more than 3 minutes of screen time? I smell sequel.
Best part of whole movie? Recognizers!
Agreed! The Lightcyle race was also badass!
