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Spoiling the shit out TRON so if you haven’t seen it stop now.
The movie starts with the Disney Castle all lit up in the TRON style which is awesome. It sets the bar high right off the bat then bangs it’s head on it.
The visuals in this movie are awesome. The action sequences are pretty cool. The light cycles and planes are beyond awesome.
Daft Punk score. I will definitely own this.
My Issues:
There are shades of Star War slash Jedi stuff that kind of make me wince. Some of the costumes and weapons are too similar.
This story feels like fragments of several story lines developed over the production of the movie and they mashed them all together.
Somehow, for some reason, Flynn’s son is brought into the “Grid”. We find out CLU is the one that brought him in and that is it. That story never plays out. Presumably CLU does this to draw Flynn out but that only happens because the son chooses to go out and the father has to follow. Reactive, not proactive.
Quorra is some special, self manifested program. That whole story line was great and I thought the movie was headed in the right direction finally. No. With flashbacks and boring expositional dialogue they puke out the story of that whole mess and that’s it.
CLU creates this massive army and we never see it in action.
There are hints of some insurgency that never gets explored.
WTF was up with ZUES channeling some combination of the Jack Nicholson’s Joker and Jim Carrey’s The Riddler. What the what?
The TRON story line pisses me off the most. The build it up only to let it fizzle at the bottom of the ocean. So frustrating. The movie is called TRON damn it. You can’t even resolve that story line of the namesake? Weak.
This movie is not about video games as it should have been.
The hero brings his physical skills into the Grid instead of learning new skills and using them. This was supposed to be about a geek manifesting greatness. Some spoiled rich kid is not my Hero.
What security guard would walks out on a crane? Come on. So disappointed.
That is all.
-Jim
