Agreed. He seemed like a very laid back guy who didn't take things that seriously, Dillenger stealing his work aside.
TRON: Legacy - Review and Grading
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Agreed. He seemed like a very laid back guy who didn't take things that seriously, Dillenger stealing his work aside.
^Yeah, even in the original film he was a bit of an overgrown child (not in a negative way), splitting his free time between snooping around Incom's database, "fixing" his phone bill and surrounded by kids, playing games in his very own arcade. His characterisation in Legacy was completely consistent as a progression of that original performance.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/The-Most-Memorable-Movie-Moments-Of-2010-22418.html
Scroll down to the Tron clip, made the 10 top movie scenes of 2010. Spoilers if you haven't seen the movie
Scroll down to the Tron clip, made the 10 top movie scenes of 2010. Spoilers if you haven't seen the movie
Saw it yesterday... it was both the best and the worst movie i've seen this year.
overall though, i was torn between "average" and "poor" and i round down... so "poor" it gets. i was bored for most of the movie.
overall though, i was torn between "average" and "poor" and i round down... so "poor" it gets. i was bored for most of the movie.
That was a great scene. There are movies this year I've liked better, but there's something about Flynn's "Gotta' split, man" that makes it my favourite line of the year. I had such a huge smile at that point.
I'd really like to give it the benefit of a second viewing -- my son loved it but I was underwhelmed -- but all we have locally right now is the 3D version. I just don't have the extra money for that. (Also, I'm afraid it will make me ill.) So...phoey. Hope someone picks up the regular version again soon.
That's encouraging at least. I'm thinking this film may do well on DVD/BR to give it some extra bit of success.
I saw it again today and enjoyed it just as much this time. I also spent more time looking at character reaction shots and some of the stuff between the characters at the "End of Line" club are fantastic. Gem and Jarvis in particular. I had totally missed their non-verbal exchange the first (and second) time around so I was amused.
As an aside, it looks like the second wave of Tron 3" action figures are out. These are pretty nicely done. Included in the wave are Rinzler, Quorra and Jarvis(!) figures but Target only had the "Black Guard". Ah well.
It seems to have done well in the box office over the holidays, grossing at least $6 million every day. Between this and True Grit's performance, Jeff Bridges' movies are reigning in the money.
Not really. The theaters get a cut of that. Then there's the massive marketing budget--which is separate from the production budget. It's doing okay, but it'a still got a ways to go before it even breaks even.
That's pretty much my thoughts. I'm maybe a little more forgiving of the story, though, since it's just a movie asking for a limtied investment of my time. But another go or two at the script would have improved it.
Great visuals, althought the younger Jeff Bridges did look weird. I could accept it in Clue since he's artificial, but it was jarring when it was supposed to be Flynn in the beginning.
Something of note. While browsing on Amazon Canada I discovered a listing for "Making of Tron Legacy" with a publication date of June 2011 from Disney Editions. 144 pages. Guess we're getting a coffee table book. Also saw a listing for The Art of Tron Legacy as well. This was supposedly published in Nov of 2010 and is out of stock.
Yeah, I do too. I liked the movie so I don't mind.
Though I always thought Fox greenlighting a Firefly movie made even less sense.
I finally saw the movie in IMAX on Saturday night, overall I thought it was good. First, the 3D in IMAX was amazing. It has some great moments, but overall the story was a real let down. Not bad enough to make it a bad film, but a much better movie was waiting to be written. The only truly horrible thing was the CGI younger Flynn and TRON. They kept touting using the same people who did Benjamin Button. Well Benjamin Button use of the technology was way better, almost completely seamless. For how much time younger Flynn spent on screen, you would figure that would have done more with this.
A few things also bothered me, we all figured out that Rinzler was TRON somehow reprogrammed. Yet he never gets a reveal and always kept his helmet on. Why? It made it seam they just didn't want to spend the money on the same technique with the TRON character. I also don't understand why all these programs have "human" form. The idea in TRON was that they represented their human "Users." Yet in this isolated server, there are no users outside of Flynn. So who are they representing?
A few things also bothered me, we all figured out that Rinzler was TRON somehow reprogrammed. Yet he never gets a reveal and always kept his helmet on. Why? It made it seam they just didn't want to spend the money on the same technique with the TRON character. I also don't understand why all these programs have "human" form. The idea in TRON was that they represented their human "Users." Yet in this isolated server, there are no users outside of Flynn. So who are they representing?
^^ I think the idea is that Flynn always envisioned his "new world" eventually being released as his vision of the internet, where users would become part of it. However, getting trapped by Clu obviously put the kibosh on that.
The programs that Flynn wrote took human form so that he could interact with them on a personal level, since he, himself, could zap into the world whenever he wanted to. Now, the question about him being able to create unique "personalities" for them is a whole different issue. How he'd have time to do that is something to ponder, seeing as Clu and Tron could not create programs on their own.
The programs that Flynn wrote took human form so that he could interact with them on a personal level, since he, himself, could zap into the world whenever he wanted to. Now, the question about him being able to create unique "personalities" for them is a whole different issue. How he'd have time to do that is something to ponder, seeing as Clu and Tron could not create programs on their own.
To whoever merged the threads, thanks.
I also noticed the way Flynn's apartment looked like the end of 2001.
To those who heard quotes and/or paraphrases of Wendy in the score, could you be more specific? The only one I heard was the one that came out of Flynn's mouth in the prologue.
I watched my DVD of the original on New Year's Morning. (I had watched the deleted scenes, and the reconstructed "with music cue" version of the Light Cycles sequence, and the end credits with Wendy's complete close music, New Year's Eve, after my previous post.)
I also noticed the way Flynn's apartment looked like the end of 2001.
To those who heard quotes and/or paraphrases of Wendy in the score, could you be more specific? The only one I heard was the one that came out of Flynn's mouth in the prologue.
I watched my DVD of the original on New Year's Morning. (I had watched the deleted scenes, and the reconstructed "with music cue" version of the Light Cycles sequence, and the end credits with Wendy's complete close music, New Year's Eve, after my previous post.)
The entire flashback sequence where Flynn explains Clu's betrayal goes on with a track called "Adagio for TRON" which is Daft Punk's homage to the original TRON theme. I missed it the first time too since all my focus was on the narration. I didn't catch it until I listened to the soundtrack and thought "Wait...that sounds famili- HEY!"
I'll keep that in mind. I'll more than likely see it again before the theatrical run is over.