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TRON: Legacy - Review and Grading

Your rating on "TRON: Legacy" ?

  • Excellent! It should be permanently installed!

    Votes: 63 32.3%
  • Good - could use an upgrade or two but overall stable and inventive

    Votes: 89 45.6%
  • Average - Hold its oen with Tron 1982.

    Votes: 29 14.9%
  • Poor - nice to look at but I then it abends all over the place

    Votes: 12 6.2%
  • Should be immediately de-resed!!!

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • Total voters
    195
I doubt Brit had the passwords and programs on his home computer or that he could go to a Starbucks and do that. He wasn't working that closely with the nuts and bolts of his paper.
 
I doubt Brit had the passwords and programs on his home computer or that he could go to a Starbucks and do that. He wasn't working that closely with the nuts and bolts of his paper.

So, why would he have them at his desk? And really, they just showed him logging on to his computer.

Through out the movie, he's shown to be... well, not so smart or capable, but some how all of a sudden he knows how to post to his paper's website?

And again, they only said, they were going to post to the internet. Didn't say anything about putting it on the paper's website.
 
I bit of Tron related fun.

JoGarcia-Tron.jpg


Sign her up for Tron 3, now that I'd pay the 3-D price for! ;)
 
Yep, and the guy who was in Dillinger's office and said "Welcome back, sir" also played Sark's second in command as well.
 
I listen to Cinemagic a lot on XM Radio, especially Reel Time. The director of Tron Legacy wad on and they talked about the score and he stated that none of Wendy Carlos score was used in Tron Legacy. The only thing used were some of the 8 bit sounds from the Tron video game.

Yes, obviously the video game cue was obtained by miking an actual video game console. And there's also the fragment that comes out of Flynn's mouth in the prologue.

I was responding to the assertion by "God Magnus" that he could hear echoes of Wendy's material in the "TRON Adagio" cue. Which I could also just barely pick up, more rhythmic than melodic. If it had more than echoes, Wendy would have gotten screen credit. Which she probably should have gotten just from the video game cue.

Star Trek without Sandy Courage makes perfect sense, because every episode of TOS had at least melodies he wrote for The Cage, and often some he wrote for Where No Man Has Gone Before, and other episodes, as well, and other TOS episodes were scored by a variety of composers, from Joe Mullendore to Jerry Fielding, and subsequent series tapped such composers as Dennis McCarthy. But can you imagine Star Wars without John Williams? Or without at least quotations of JW's material? Likewise, a TRON sequel without any of Wendy's material is somehow much less than it could have been. (Then again, in the original, they did cut Wendy's close music right after the organ solo, in order to put in a song from Journey, so it's not like the powers-that-be hadn't done anything like this before. Which brings up the question of why could the producers of T:L have found it so much more important to include Journey material, than Wendy's material?)
 
Missed opportunity department: In the original, Kevin Flynn's first line after having been dragged into the computer was, "This isn't happening; it only thinks it's happening." In T:L, Sam Flynn only utters the first half of the line.
 
I bit of Tron related fun.

JoGarcia-Tron.jpg
I hate it when models adopt that sort of expression. If I'm going to ogle a picture of an attractive woman, dammit, I don't want her to look as though she just had a strong hit of crack, and thinks my pecker is pathetic! :scream:
 
My own theory is that the ISO's DNA is in some way "perfect"; it's a clean, fresh set of humanoid DNA without all the "junk" left over from millions of years of evolution since the ISOs were created fresh in the Grid, and apparently basics (human made programs) and ISOs don't have any problems like genetic defects, potential for cancer, etc etc.

So an ISO genome would be the pattern, I guess, for a flawless human being immune to typical frailties; a holy grail of genetic engineering, and might also point out how to "correct" flaws in the existing human genome via comparison. Flynn, while wildly speculating, mentioned something about the ISOs meaning the end of all disease.
 
http://www.worldswithoutend.com/index.asp?view=plink&id=366

Interesting review at World's Without End website. A lot more balanced than even some informed SF fansite reviews. I too think the ISOs and their relevance is worth a much closer look. The reason behind the "Grid" as a closed system also would bear some explanation. All which make the movie more interesting to me, since I never expect it to be able to answer all these questions in a 2 hr movie...but my expectations for the the third movie are now much higher..

RAMA
 
My own theory is that the ISO's DNA is in some way "perfect"; it's a clean, fresh set of humanoid DNA without all the "junk" left over from millions of years of evolution since the ISOs were created fresh in the Grid, and apparently basics (human made programs) and ISOs don't have any problems like genetic defects, potential for cancer, etc etc.

So an ISO genome would be the pattern, I guess, for a flawless human being immune to typical frailties; a holy grail of genetic engineering, and might also point out how to "correct" flaws in the existing human genome via comparison. Flynn, while wildly speculating, mentioned something about the ISOs meaning the end of all disease.

See, this is what bugs me about CLU just destroying the ISOs. I would have thought he'd see their perfection, as such, and subvert it for his army, not get rid of them...In fact, I thought using the ISOs as a threat to the human world (mirroring Flynn's desire to use them to heal humans) made more sense than somehow using his army of programs on the outside.
 
I think you're all putting more thought into the philosophy of all this than the writers did. :p
 
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