Tron Legacy Movie Review

[OldKen]

You "live" him??!?!?

Oh man, I think I just found the new quote to my sig! :lol

Glad to see Larry and Mike both liked it. IMHO that says a lot about this movie. (Mainly it says this movie has kickass "spacesuits")

I will see it again in theaters at least once.

 

[CTF]

You "live" him??!?!?

On occassion, the iPhone "corrects" words.

I wish I could live as Larry.

 

[Larry Young]

Was it Martyn, upthread, who said this flick would polarize the audience? I agree, and see Carson and Nick's exchange as being solid proof of that. They see the same thing and come to opposite conclusions. Me, I love films like this.

Because of my comics career, I have a singular view of critics in general and posters on message boards in particular. Joe Casey says, "People see what they want to see," dismissively, but I think it's more that people see what they can see, you know? If one sees Tron and thinks "Love conquers all!" at the end, then that's one sort of audience member. If you go out of the film thinking about how crappy the CGI was, then that's another. Nobody's right or wrong.

If you leave the theatre thinking the Encom logo and the police cars of Central City and the numbers on CLU's army cattle car signage were all the same font (a VGC font called "China") and that must mean something towards the theme of the interconnectivity of the "real" and "digital" world, then you and me should never be in the same room at the same time, because there'd probably be some sort of pop culture/design/English major vortex explosion.

 

[TheNickFox]

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I think it did a nice job building on the themes of the first one without retreading too much. Users as gods was one of the primary tenets of the first film and to have the "son of their god and creator" come to save them is a very nice ***** metaphor without being as heavy handed as the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies were. (After such a simple Messiah story in the first one too)

There were some issues with points being abandoned (Light cycle handlebar, fastest bike on the grid) but overall, the film kept moving at a nice enough clip, without falling into Michael Bay territory, that most of those issues didn't resonate with me for long.

The only thing that really continues to bother me is what happened to Rinzler (Wink wink) I held out hope for an after-the-credits scene showing him emerging from the digital water to reform the Grid. (Maybe from his data...showing the citizens of the grid growing like flowers in the desert, or whatever Kevin Flynn's quotation was about the ISOs)

I just assumed that Rinzler's transformation was meant to be taken as a "miracle" much like the ISOs. Some loose code somewhere in him mutated back to where it once was. So overall, I was fine with it's suddenness as it built on that theme. That said, I can't help but think that THIS is the ending I would have wanted to see:

Sam and Quorra are at the portal, Sam not wanting to go through, CLU approaches Kevin, and after a brief smackdown, pulls the disk from Flynn's back. We see a disk sever CLUs arm and another pick it up...it's Tron! He urges Kevin to go, but Kevin stands along side of him to fight.

...Battle, Battle, Battle...

Flynn falls down and Tron takes his disk from him. With Flynn begging him not to do it, Tron places Flynn's disk on his own back, thus taking on the identity of Flynn. Tron as Flynn now, re-assimilates with CLU causing the giant explosion, JUST as Quorra finally pushes Sam through the portal.

...Blah, Blah, Blah, Sunrise...

CREDITS

After-Credits-Scene: The bare grid, a wasteland, a lone figure, bathed in a white light emanating from his robes, calmly and assuredly limps to a small bare patch, and lays Tron's disk down. After pressing a few buttons, he walks away leaving the disk to grow a few blue computer bits on the top of it, like a digital flower emerging from the soil.

As for CLU, the face wasn't as bad as a lot of you are making it out to be. The main issue, which so few animators even seem to know about is that when humans speak, their lips naturally stick and stretch ever so slightly to one another. That feature alone could have done a lot to help. That said, as he was supposed to be a "perfect" specimen, having him look a bit plasticky at times wasn't a problem for me.

-Nick

 

[micdavis]

How long did it take you to figure out Rinzler was Tron?

Most of the audience I was in had zero clue.

 

[CTF]

The Daft Punk cameo was just plain silly.

 

[TheNickFox]

The Daft Punk cameo was just plain silly.

The theater I was in loved it. Every time it cut back to them just bobbing along to their beats, we all laughed.

That's something that really hasn't been touched on here either. This was a pretty funny movie to me. Not a comedy, but definitely some fun banter and sillier moments that kept it from taking itself too seriously, which I liked.

-Nick

 

[micdavis]

See, I had/have no idea who or what Daft Punk is or was in the movie, so wherever they were they didn't register and were just another item in this different world?

Where were they? In the club?

 

[OldKen]

How long did it take you to figure out Rinzler was Tron?

Most of the audience I was in had zero clue.

I figured it out about 6 months ago. No one else has a T on their chest! :lol

The audience was clueless.

The 13 year old kid that stood up and said "holy crap Tron was BADASS! He is still alive I bet" was priceless. I Thought the kids would not like this movie. People were HYPED walking out of there.

 

[OldKen]

See, I had/have no idea who or what Daft Punk is or was in the movie, so wherever they were they didn't register and were just another item in this different world?

Where were they? In the club?

The DJ's in the DJ booth.

 

[CTF]

How long did it take you to figure out Rinzler was Tron?

Most of the audience I was in had zero clue.

What a waste of a "character." Especially when the movie's called Tron (a rose by any other name...).

I've used quotes 'round that word, 'cause you must have character to be a character.

 

[Larry Young]

I've used quotes 'round that word, 'cause you must have character to be a character.

Well, in fairness to the cardboard security program, "I fight... for the USERS!" is all the character TRON has ever had anyhow.

 

[CTF]

Olivia Wilde: "Sam, what do we do now?"

Kid in my cinema: "Go be a stripper!"

Speaking of which, I was cringing at the scene with the "fembots."

 

[Larry Young]

The DJ's in the DJ booth.

Yeah, that Daft Punk thing wasn't any more silly than any other nod-and-wink cameo. If you can take Sylvester Stallone bumping into John Travolta in the street in STAYIN ALIVE, cameos will never bother you again.

 

[micdavis]

It's no different that 006 being the bad guy in Goldeneye. Except of course the movie was named TRON, yeah.

I hadn't been following closely the lead up to this release, and only as I was driving to the theater did I start thinking, I've seen Alan, but no Tron. Where is Tron?

Then when I saw the guy with the four dots on his chest it hit me right there. It's Tron.

THAT was awesome at that moment because I simply had not even thought about it.

Perhaps a singular response on my part, but it shows how something so simple as that can really boost your enjoyment of a movie.

 

[OldKen]

What a waste of a "character." Especially when the movie's called Tron (a rose by any other name...).

I've used quotes 'round that word, 'cause you must have character to be a character.

It's actually called "TRON LEGACY" What is a mans "legacy"?

I thought it would have been better and I actually thought Rinzler would have been a spy working for Flynn. I do wish they would have shown his face though.

And for the record Rinzler saying "you are a user?" when he first grabbed sam... it was clearly Trons voice.

 

[CTF]

Yeah, that Daft Punk thing wasn't any more silly than any other nod-and-wink cameo. If you can take Sylvester Stallone bumping into John Travolta in the street in STAYIN ALIVE, cameos will never bother you again.

I'm just glad we never saw the maestro in the cantina!

 

[micdavis]

You do see a "younged up" Bruce in the flashback seen.

 

[Larry Young]

I thought it would have been better and I actually thought Rinzler would have been a spy working for Flynn. I do wish they would have shown his face though.

I agree. Tron's a security program, after all. But I see why they did it, to show CLU was the new MCP, with marching orders given by God himself.

I also agree they should have shown Tron's face.

What do you do when someone says two things you agree with whole-heartedly, back-to-back?

thumbsup

?

 

[OldKen]

You do see a "younged up" Bruce in the flashback seen.

I know. All the more reason to show his face in rinzlers helmet. And it actually looked good!

Why didn't they use tech to make them LOOK younger instead of a complete CGI head? Too me that is the biggest mistake made in this movie.