how did Flynn steal that laser from Encom?
Who says he stole it? Even if he wasn't actually the CEO of Encom after the first movie (and I honestly can't remember), he still would have been rich from all of the profits from "Space Paranoids." He could have bought the laser or made his own. (Good thing that he & Encom didn't end up financially ruined from the video game crash of 1983.)
Oh and Quorra, how did she become flesh and blood?
As for Clu what the heck, what exactly was he going to bring into the real world? if it was only he and his army they don't exactly have weapons, and it didn't seem objects apart from clothing could move between worlds.
To me, Clu's plan never made any sense. I figure that the laws of mass/energy conversion still apply. It takes impossible amounts of energy just to create something the size of a person. So you can probably only get out of the Grid an amount of matter equal to what you put in. Since Kevin Flynn entered the Grid in 1989, I figure that, using his disc, Clu himself could manifest in the real world, basically materializing his mind into young Kevin Flynn's physical pattern. However, Clu bringing his army into our world doesn't seem even remotely possible. The power required just isn't there. And even if they did materialize in our world, how would his ships work? They don't seem to have any actual propulsion and don't need any in the Grid because the laws of physics don't have to work there the way that they do here.
On the subject of Qora, I assume that she used the energy from Kevin Flynn's mass in order to materialize in our world. But since she's not based on a real world physical pattern, it makes me wonder how she works. Does she have any of the usual biological functions that a real woman would have? Does she even have skin underneath that outfit? As a computer program, there's no particular reason why she should. And I don't recall seeing Sam eat or drink anything or go to the bathroom when he was in the Grid, so I really don't know what conclusions I'm supposed to draw.
There was a really odd line in Tron where the MCP threatens a program with ending up inside a pocket calculator so even inside those there is a Tron like environment. Just trying to put that into something visual I just can't. So even calculators have walking talking programs inside them in the Tron universe.
In a calculator, maybe, like, each number is its own person. Watch out for 5, man, he's a real asshole. Especially if he's just been divided.
I would just like to mention that I love Michael Sheen's performance in this movie. It's completely bonkers and feels like it belongs in a totally different movie but I enjoy it a lot!
I don't much care for the original
Tron. Not only did they not have the technology to pull off what they were trying to achieve but they didn't have the visual panache either.
Tron Legacy was lightyears ahead on both counts. And while I appreciate that the movie is a sequel instead of a reboot, it also seemed to me that it's a sequel very specifically designed to be accessible to people who hadn't seen the first movie (which I hadn't when I first saw
Legacy). I only wish that there wasn't such a drop-off between the theatrical experience vs. the home theater experience. I'd love to see it again on the big screen in 3-D.
