No sequel to Tron Legacy.

[CommanderTrip]

I thought I also heard a rumor on these boards a while ago that the Tron Legacy franchise was dropped by Disney in favor of doing the SW deal..... or maybe it was to finance Marvel movies? not too sure..... Either way, I loved Tron Legacy. Finally managed to find a used copy of the 3D blu ray to add to my collection. The movie is visually stunning.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Much apologizings, but I can't help but say this:

Is the "Flynn Lives" game still considered Tron canon? Up to and including TRON: The Next Day.

Furthermore,

Spoiler: game

From what I hear, Dillinger Jr. was in cahoots with his father the whole time, secretly plotting to take control of ENCOM and oust Alan once and for all. Now that Alan is the CEO, I'm not sure what that does to their plans, but probably throws a wrench in it.

 

[Gaith]

Yeah, I liked Legacy as well. It had heart and didn't feel flashy for flashy's sake.

But... isn't that exactly what the third-act spaceship chase was? And the games too, fun as they admittedly were?

I think the movie made a huge mistake by having Clu aim to take over the world, rather than the Internet (with maybe the world later). Even apart from the massive plausibility issue of how his countless digital tanks would even cross over, it gave the whole movie a very bland feel, whereas if a malevolent AI took over the Internet, along with all/most computers worldwide, that'd still be super-high stakes, but much more unique and interesting. Instead, we got a cliched "take over the world" ploy that left no obvious way a sequel could top it.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't really remember the chase all that much, to be honest. But I do remember enjoying the story quite a bit and felt it was a worthy followup. But you do make a good point about taking over the world vs the internet. Actually, if there's one thing that bugged me about it was how the Internet seemed to be glossed over entirely. So yeah, definitely would have made more sense to for him to take that over. It would also have made sense from a standpoint of it being decades later and having the world evolve with the Internet.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I don't really remember the chase all that much, to be honest. But I do remember enjoying the story quite a bit and felt it was a worthy followup. But you do make a good point about taking over the world vs the internet. Actually, if there's one thing that bugged me about it was how the Internet seemed to be glossed over entirely. So yeah, definitely would have made more sense to for him to take that over. It would also have made sense from a standpoint of it being decades later and having the world evolve with the Internet.

I think the computer they were inside was that one in the arcade basement. It must have been isolated from the internet and self contained. That would have been to protect both it and the outside world from the grid.

 

[Mr Light]

I do agree the movie's one glaring error was Clu's plot to take over the real world with an army of tanks. Where would the physical matter come from to comprise the tanks and soldiers? If it had just been changed to an internet takeover you would have solved that problem. (Quorra becomes flesh, but that's a single body, you can hand-wave that one...)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I do agree the movie's one glaring error was Clu's plot to take over the real world with an army of tanks. Where would the physical matter come from to comprise the tanks and soldiers? If it had just been changed to an internet takeover you would have solved that problem. (Quorra becomes flesh, but that's a single body, you can hand-wave that one...)

Quorra can easily be explained. No handwaving needed.

When Flynn merged with Clu the data for his physical mass was there as was the actual matter stored in tanks next to the laser. Quorra used the data on Flynn's disk and that was used to make a body for her with the stored mass in the laser..

 

[Mr Light]

That would mean Sam is having sex with his father's body!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think the computer they were inside was that one in the arcade basement. It must have been isolated from the internet and self contained. That would have been to protect both it and the outside world from the grid.

Yep, that's pretty much it.

The Game Grid from the original film was connected to the outside world (that's how the MCP gathered conscripts and stole data and stuff like that) but The Grid from Legacy is entirely self-contained and isolated.

 

[Gaith]

^ If it was so isolated, how was Clu able to send Alan Bradley a page? (How would he even know the number?)

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yep, that's pretty much it.

The Game Grid from the original film was connected to the outside world (that's how the MCP gathered conscripts and stole data and stuff like that) but The Grid from Legacy is entirely self-contained and isolated.

Likely only because it being an outdated system incompatible with the rest without it being able to hook up to the internet. It still doesn't really explain none of that was even a factor though. The Internet was for the most part not even a thing before the 90's, unless you count BBSes and Dialup services as the Internet. With the emergence of the Internet though, it would have introduced a completely different dynamic , propagating and essentially evolving their world with it, so you'd have to think that it isn't the only connection anymore, that there's something else connected to it. I mean, the original grid doesn't exist anymore, does it? It obviously evolved to a certain point and couldn't have done that if it was self-contained. There'd have been an outside influence.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

That would mean Sam is having sex with his father's body!

Only if you chose to think that way. It's not his body but the matter that composed his body. Ultimately, we're all made of stardust.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^ If it was so isolated, how was Clu able to send Alan Bradley a page? (How would he even know the number?)

I have no idea. I'd assume a phone line in the arcade that Clu hacked..... Other then that I can't explain the pager ..Are you sure it was Clu and not Alan Bradley?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That would mean Sam is having sex with his father's body!

LOL I only just realized that was a vomit icon...... How did you do that?

 

[Mr Light]

Click on the ":-)" button above this text box and it brings up a bunch of emoticons.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Click on the ":-)" button above this text box and it brings up a bunch of emoticons.

Ah OK....... I thought it was a typed in smiley

 

[Kahless the Unforgettable]

Well that's disappointing news.

While I didn't find the movie all that great, I was expecting the story to at least be finished. I was particularly waiting to see how they fully rationalized Quora or whatever her name was, and then explain how that basically didn't make Flynn God as he was literally creating life out of nothing but a few lines of code.

 

[Gaith]

^ Huh? He flat-oud said the ISOs came from some other, unknown realm that he had nothing to do with, and IIRC he had no idea why they first appeared in his Grid and not our physical reality.

 

[Owain Taggart]

^ Huh? He flat-oud said the ISOs came from some other, unknown realm that he had nothing to do with, and IIRC he had no idea why they first appeared in his Grid and not our physical reality.

Which makes all the more sense that there'd have to have been an outside influence via the Internet, which they maybe didn't know about.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I thought Flynn said that the ISOs just evolved..... That they just happened along.

The ISOs where the thing he was hoping for that would change everything.