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opt2not:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on December 20, 2010, 12:00:22 pm ---I liked it.  Saw the 2D version 'cause I'm blind in one eye.  :P

I thought they were very respectful to the original.  They could have really blasphemed and worked an internet/online multiplayer angle, etc.
Instead, they kept the arcade as a central piece of the story.  It could have easily gone horribly wrong trying to update it, but they did a good job.
I think it could have been a great movie had the ending been more spectacular or suprising.
As it is, it's a good movie. 

I will give them bonus points for rolling out Dillinger's son as an obvious villain, then doing nothing else with the character.
The plot wasn't completely unforseen, but at least they didn't go for the obvious rehash of the old movie.

I like the soundtrack by Daft Punk.  :)

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I agree.  It was a good movie to me, not great, but it surpassed my expectations which were pretty low to begin with. I basically went into that theater expecting it to be at least as good as the original. Visually it was brilliant, but that's not too hard these days when you throw a big budget towards any art-house in the movie industry. There were a bunch of scenes with C.L.U that I felt were amazing, couldn't tell it was CG. Then there were the others that snapped me out of it and reminded me that it was a very CG face. Especially some of the C.L.U talking moments addressing the crowd near the end.

I too gave it points for possibly setting up another sequel with Dillinger's son, as well as Tron changing to good while in the water (and not dying).

Another nice thing was seeing all the shots of my home city of Vancouver (it's cool that we're being regarded as the "techie" city for a lot of sci-fi shows and movies to be shot in), though I was a bit disappointed in the last shots while they were driving along the Lion's Gate bridge when they showed the sky scene. Could they not have found a more sunny Vancouver day to show the sun?? I mean, it rains a lot here and there is a lot of overcast, but we do get some glorious clear sunny days now and again!

I saw it in IMAX 3D, and didn't think that the 3D was all that good really. There were a couple shots where it was the cliche "something flying toward your face", but all in all, this movie would probably have been better in standard 2D. It's especially hard to do quick cuts in 3D and have the audience's eyes keep up with what's going on, the action scenes seemed to suffer from it. I plan on seeing it again in 2D, and expect I'll be able to take in more during those sequences.

I too liked the Daft Punk soundtrack, as well as their cameos!

Admittedly, during the arcade scenes, I was too occupied trying to recognize all the machines they had in there. :)



--- Quote from: Vigo on December 20, 2010, 11:21:15 am ---I also was a little irked that they made Kevin Flynn into this Zen master of the computer world, like Neo from the Matrix. Tron of all movies should not have to resort to directly snatching from the matrix. And really, hasn't Jeff Bridges played the aging hippy enough?

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Yeah, i felt that way too. I just chalked it up to his 20 years of meditating and studying code as the reason. But it really had a Matrix'y vibe to it, that felt a bit like a cop-out.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: opt2not on December 20, 2010, 02:52:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on December 20, 2010, 11:21:15 am ---I also was a little irked that they made Kevin Flynn into this Zen master of the computer world, like Neo from the Matrix. Tron of all movies should not have to resort to directly snatching from the matrix. And really, hasn't Jeff Bridges played the aging hippy enough?

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Yeah, i felt that way too. I just chalked it up to his 20 years of meditating and studying code as the reason. But it really had a Matrix'y vibe to it, that felt a bit like a cop-out.

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I was thinking Obi-Wan, then he put on an Obi-Wan robe.  :o  
I started making comparisons to star wars as soon as they showed the head bad guy...wearing a black helmet....with a processed voice...who is possibly the hero's father.
Luckily, no Yoda knock-offs showed up and it went back to being a Tron movie.  

Vigo:
I also have to applaud Disney for allowing the whole opening part about sam hijacking the Encom software. It had a very anti-bloatware, pro open-software message to it. While Disney is not as involved in software as much as they are in movies, it's really rare to see a large studio film portray piracy not as the dark evil of the universe, but a more of effect from companies not meeting the needs of the consumers. I would think most studios would use a movie like this as a plug for their usual anti-piracy campaigns. It was nice to hear them say, "Yes, there are two sides to these kind of issues".

Vigo:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on December 20, 2010, 03:06:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: opt2not on December 20, 2010, 02:52:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on December 20, 2010, 11:21:15 am ---I also was a little irked that they made Kevin Flynn into this Zen master of the computer world, like Neo from the Matrix. Tron of all movies should not have to resort to directly snatching from the matrix. And really, hasn't Jeff Bridges played the aging hippy enough?

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Yeah, i felt that way too. I just chalked it up to his 20 years of meditating and studying code as the reason. But it really had a Matrix'y vibe to it, that felt a bit like a cop-out.

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I was thinking Obi-Wan, then he put on an Obi-Wan robe.  :o  
I started making comparisons to star wars as soon as they showed the head bad guy...wearing a black helmet....with a processed voice...who is possibly the hero's father.
Luckily, no Yoda knock-offs showed up and it went back to being a Tron movie.  

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I know what you mean there. Although it seemed like everyone in that movie had a black helmet, it must have been the fashion trend. I actually wish they took the black helmet off of Tron at some point, since I had a hard time ever feeling that the "black ninja" was tron.

Another Star Wars bit was the sky fight. When they had Sam get on the gun turrets and take out the little sky fighters, I couldn't help but feel there was some throwback to the old millennium falcon dogfight scenes.

Flake:
Just saw it last night in 3D and thought it was pretty good.

Things I liked:

1.  Storyline.  Though it has some holes, I thought it was pretty well thought - as well as it could be anyway.  I would have preferred more discussion of the "miracle/Iso's" and how he envisioned their integration into the real world.  I guess my concern was what happens to Cora (spelling?) once entered the real world?  Does she become flesh and blood?  I guess I just would have liked more detail on this.
2.  Soundtrack - LOVED IT!  It gave the movie an intensity I just couldnt let go of. 
3.  Grid action scenes. 
4.  Visual aspect/costumes/young Flynn/CLU face, etc.

Things I didnt like or at least thought could have been improved upon:

1.  Physics of the world.  How in God's name do you have an outlying rough, mountainous terrain in a computer based world?  Was this supposed to be the programmed vision of Flynn's?  The original Tron was all electronic/grid type environment.  I just didnt get that at all.
2.  Some of the ending scenes disappointed.  What was Tron's motivation for turning good all of a sudden?  What was this "power" Flynn displayed to suck back in CLU at the end?  Why didnt Flynn even try to escape to be with his son?  Seems it was 3 vs. 1 at the time they could have just straight up defeated him to all make their way to the portal?

I thought the 3D was OK, probably could have been better.  But I'm glad I saw it in 3D.  I cant understand why someone would prefer to see this in 2D over 3D?

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