"Tron Legacy" Review
My experience seeing the new "Tron."
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I liked tron Legacy, not perfect movie, but enkoyable. I am surprised you liked it, you are not usually a big fan of CG.
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holy shit, my thoughts exactly
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Coats have the right to see movies too. This guy is anti-coat rights.
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So...he did not ask you to move your coat he just decides to stalk you and harass you, from what you say he was a class act, I am sure his wife and kids headed to Walmart directly after the show. Heh, you know when me and my bud go to movies we are very respectful of others but we have had our issues, the worst being when we were asked to move over in a crowded theatre to make room for someone who showed up just before the movie began, we refused because you see we go to like 300 movies a year, we go early to get optimal seating, is this anal? Well maybe it is but that is why we go early before hardly anyone gets there to sit dead center. IF WE SHOWED UP just before the start of a movie we would not expect optimal seating, you want the best seating fucking come early like we do, at one point the fucking usher who we had said no to get's the MANAGER, now she is in our face saying things like "If you could just move over one and not continue making a disruption" and that WE were causing a problem etc, meanwhile the movie has now started, wholly shit what the fuck is wrong with people? We are two paying customers who spend literally thousands yearly at the theatre and WE are causing an issue because we do not want to move to accommodate some joker who shows up late and likely goes to the odd movie? Fuck him.
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Lol stalkers. And again, you and Spoony have completely different opinions.
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1. good review.
2. happy birthday from sweden!
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Hey Brad! Will you also go see 'True Grit'? Trailers look good and the reviews are very, very positive....and it has Jeff Bridges in it!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD!!!
I didn't watch the first Tron till about 2 weeks ago, and im sad it took me that long to see it. better late than never i suppose. but the trailers for the new one look good and disney, despite being marketed for kids does have great writers.
as far as theaters go, i dont like them. at all. at least not for seeing movies. its just too hard to pay attention ya know? especially here in California where everyone has to look cool and talk on phones or text every fucking second.
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LOL saying "pretentious critic" reminded me of spoony
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I predict a twitter war. Remember when Angry Joe said he liked The Expendables?
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"Atmospheric 3D" is the only 3D worth it. "Gimmicky 3D" that I by the way do not think about when I hear "3D", is pointless. No, worse, it's annoying. The reason nobody has things being thrown at the screen in 2D isn't because it isn't 3D, it's because it's annoying. And 3D only makes it more so.
So I totally disagree with you on that point.
Tron Legacy isn't out here yet.
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so 3d should be used for atmosphere and to make you feel like more a part of the film?
cause i've never seen a 2d that had a good atmosphere and forget liking 2d films you just can't feel like your there
is this your thinking?
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Did he ask you to fight at 3 o'clock...
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Daft Punk making the soundtrack usually means great music. They where meant to do Tron really.
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You know, I really dislike Daft Punk, but even I have to admit that that was a pretty pumping soundtrack.
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Funny you mention nitpicking the movie apart, Spoony did that exact thing and kinda came off as a dick doing it.
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I knew you'd like this movie cuz spoony fuckin' hated it, I thought you guys had similar movie tastes lol
also I complete agree with you on the whole 3d should be only in gimmicky way other wise it's pointless.
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About that coat guy, simple- he wanted dat ass!
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Brad your amazing for not hitting the guy! IF some random person started talking to me and got into my space I would have lost it! I'd have flipped out of someone was in my space! Much less alone even if he was fan suddenly touching a stranger isn't cool! Note to self, avoide springfield theaters lol!
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Dude.. dont swing that fag around all 'movie' long, you wanna smoke it or what?! we dont care!
Happy birthday
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Who is Lloyd? I know Brian, Sarah, Lillian, Alex and Jerrid. But who is Lloyd?
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I thought Lloyd was Brad's cat.
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Lloyd is the kitty
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Try water lots of water most hangovers are related to dehydration.
Did he ever give you the chance to say you would have moved the jacket if he'd asked? Because if he just bitched with no chance for you to explain, it wouldn't matter if he was their to see one last movie with his terminally ill wife and kid he deserved the F##K off to his face.
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...that's a bit extreme. O_O
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Happy Birthday Brad!!!
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I just watched the original Tron for the first time last week and I really dug it. I'll have to scrounge up some pennies and see this new one.
Happy birthday.
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Brad, your birthday is on the 20th too? Awesome!
Happy birthday man!
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Drink plenty of water before going to bed after a night out. It'll help stop the headache which is caused by dehydration. Fried food for breakfast also helps some people with their stomachs. Knowing your limits doesn't hurt either
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I needed this after watching Spoonys review for an hour.
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I just saw Spoony's review before I came on here and when I saw you had a Tron review I knew you were probably going to like it since he hated it. Happy Birthday tomorrow.
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Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with some members of the audience
And yes, that soundtrack was fucking awesome.
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Happy Birthday Brad. I was going to send you a card or something but never got the ok when I sent you a e-mail. I loved the movie as well. I'm a huge fan of the 80's as well since I was born in 81. Nice review.
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Is that a Starcaster electric guitar on your right next to the couch there?
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It's amazing how much you and Spoony can disagree. I respect you both but I'm avoiding this one. Especially seeing how Spoony was 1000% right about Expendables.
Yes, 1000%
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The Cinemasnob Smokes??!?!?! My perspective on this world is shattered
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Glad you liked the movie. I enjoyed it a bunch. Still waiting for your Warrior's Way review, but I guess that can wait till the new year.
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Hey, when you get your blood up you want to punch GOD. Tomorrow will be fine. Smile
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Happy Birthday Brad I used to never get hang overs like Brian but I found that changed last weekend it could have been the fact I drank almost a whole bottle of Rumple Minz. Best advice though try to drink water in between you drinks that was my secert for years.
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That stalker dude would totally throw a bottle of booze at the Cinema Snob pinball machine. If there was one.
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I don't have to tell you that you did the right thing right Brad. Also I'm glad you didn't feel bad about the kid being there. Don't be afraid to kick the guys ass.
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Happy B-day, Brad!
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Happy Birthday Brad! Neat review... Is that a Bong on your coffee table?
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I haven't seen it yet, but people have been so divided on it that I've become quite curious.
BTW Brad, I'd be curious about your opinion on Black Swan. You might find it a bit pretentious, but I think you might enjoy it as the fucked up psychological thriller that it is at heart. I personally loved it and felt that it was probably the most authentically terrifying movie of the whole year.
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I love that you loved Tron: Legacy for the same reasons Spoony hated it.
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May I have your attention please? I have received an email from the General Manager...
*walks up to the podium*
*lifts up laptop and puts on glasses*
And I quote...
"Happy birthday, Brad, or maybe 'not so happy' birthday because I have another reason why you won't be very 'fucntionable' this time tomorrow...
Tonight you'll be stepping into the ring against a man who didn't like 'Tron: Legacy' or the musical stylings of Daft Punk...
The man you will be going up against is none other than 'The Viper' Randy Orton, and you'll be facing him in a 'no disqualification match'...
Oh, and Brad... that match starts RIGHT NOW!"
♪ I hear voices in my head! They council me, they understand! They talk to me! ♫
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ahem....
*places needle on a 45*
♫Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year
We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer...♫
(Weird Al)
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First: Happy Birthday!
Second: Glad to hear that the movie was entertaining. After Spoony's review was so negative, having you be positive about it tells me I'll probably like it, after I agreed with you and disagreed with Spoony multiple times this year.
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Thanks for making a review that didn't make up plot holes and call me an idiot for liking the film. (sigh... Spoony...)
I really liked the movie for a lot of the points you make, and because I feel like I grew up on Tron, seeing a sequel handled well without relying on the inevitable nostalgia winks was incredibly nice. And hey, someone else glad to see Bruce Boxleitner on the big screen again! Also, can you believe Zeus was Micheal Sheen? What the hell. And happy birthday, Brad. See you on the other side of your hangover.
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I worked at the only first-run theater in the city I lived in, and I have seen the kind of situation you went through happen more than not. Hell, I once got cussed out and threatened with violence once by a customer because I asked him to take his feet off of a railing in front of him (something the management of the place had us do because it tore up the seats) and afterward he preceded to yell and do the same thing to all of the managers on duty as he left in anger because we had the 'audacity' to tell him to take his feet down...
Glad you enjoyed the movie, I definitely want to see it; but the whole movie theater experience has been marred for me personally from the years of working in one of the ugliest work environments I've ever experienced. Guess it'll be DVD or blu-ray for me.
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Hey wait, I love the cinema snob's coat and I didn't get to molest him.
P.S. CAN'T WAIT FOR BRAD TRIES! I really loved the jones soda thanksgiving. I hope you set it up like a dinner again... that was so atmospheric n_n
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First of all Brad, happy birthday; hope you had a great day.
Anyway, to keep my opinion short I enjoyed Tron Legacy for what it was. Many of the complaints from critics I found pretty petty or unfounded; not only that but I liked the fact it was a far more methodical blockbuster than a lot of stuff out now.
Even now the film is growing on me, hell I am tempted to see it again.
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The "almost a fight" after the movie was pretty surreal to witness. The guy was also shouting that he "would have liked to have been able to sit with his family" during the movie. The funny thing to me was that the wife and kid were sitting in the 2 seats next to me, but the kid ended up sitting in her lap for almost the entire film so really she had an extra seat she wasn't using either. What a fucking bitch.
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I loved this movie! Rewatched the original beforehand and it made the new one that much better. They go back and make really good and funny references to the first one. "Thats a big door!" But unlike Spoony you enjoyed the film, and caught most of the plot. Spoony had to have not been paying much attention because I recall very vividly that the movie explained almost all of the so-called "plotholes" that Spoony pointed out. Good review buddy and keep them coming.
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Do you and Spoony ever agree on new releases?
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"Dis guy, is unFuckingbelieavible!"
What a DICK! Sorry he fucked with you movie experience, don't you just hate it when people do that.
I'm not to excited about Tron:Legacy. I saw the trailer and thought, "Meh."
Anyway, nice review Brad, have a good one.
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80:s Dan should DEFINITELY review it !!
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Have you seen Spoony's review for this movie? He hated the film.
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Hmm, Based on the reviews I guess you can say the if you go into Tron Legacy expecting a deep and rich in story squeal to the first movie, you'll be disappointed. If you go into it just expecting an action flick with Tron visuals, then you'll love it. So poor squeal, good movie I guess.
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Look, don't get me wrong. I loved the original Tron and I love this movie. But the sequel works because it stays in sync with its predecessor. The original Tron wasn't packing a Ben-Hur storyboard. They're simple movies, and they're simple for a reason. I don't think Tron: Legacy could have been made any better without being unfaithful to the original movie.
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Happy Birthday, Brad.
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I liked the movie too. It was flawed, but really fun.
Anyway, Happy Birthday!
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Just one short message: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Ok, and one question: What is the blinking thing in the lower right corner?!? And why didn't you lit the cig for nearly 30 Minutes? Or what the hell was that you plaid with?
But, at the end, the most important message here is:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Oh boi, you and Spoony have drastically different opinions on this one... *meep*
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This is why you are fucking awesome, Brad. You honestly said everything I had to say about Tron: Legacy. Fuck the nit-pickers *cough*Spooky*sough*.
Also, that coat guy sounds like a real jack-off. You have some serious self-control, cause I'd have knock the guy out.
Oh, and happy birthday.
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Do you think it would have been worse if Coat Guy did this to you right before the movie started?
Eh. Don't let it get to you.
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That's such a Larry David moment.... someone making a huge deal over nothing, you tell them to fuck off to then find his wife and kid were right there, which elevates the madness, obviously.
Thanks for the talk over your thoughts on the movie. As common with your other unscripted movie discussions, enjoyable to hear.
and, happy belated birthday
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Watchmen had a great soundtrack as well
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spoony nitpicked the CRAP outta this film. he should stick to games
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I really wish I had been there for that.
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I have to disagree with Brad on the 3D thing. I don't like the gimmicky 3D where things fly out of the screen at you. I HATE that 3D stuff because it just so darn gimmicky. And, really, it breaks the "fourth wall" so it sort of ruins the whole "movie experience" to begin with. I mean is it really that much an experience when a yo-yo or frisbee or whatever flys out of the screen at you? That stuff more annoys me and reminds me I'm watching a movie.
The DEPTH 3D is far more immersive and something that brings you more into the movie and more like you watching into a window into a real world. If you want to have goofy things flying at you and making you think a giant flag-on-a-stick is coming out of the screen at you into the real world then go back in time to the 1950s. Give me 3D that's more depth and awesome. The scenery of Avatar was awesome where it looked like you're looking deep into a real world. THAT'S far cooler than seeing something fly at me.
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Nevermind the movie, do tell more about your wife's sexy dance, Brad!
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I agree 100% Brad, could not have said it better myself. The music is amazing, the visuals were great and it was, above all else, more entertaining that pretty much any movie I've seen this year.
Hope your hangover wasn't too bad
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He put his arm around you? In a nasty theater where the public bathrooms are cleaner there where you're sitting? O_o ::shower shower shower shower::
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It's nice to know that I'm not the only one in the world who loved 80s movies & doesn;t care for CG effects/animation.
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I'm a SfC fan, and I'd like to think I'm not that creepy-looking!
Nice to hear you enjoyed T:L, though! I'm an Olivia Wilde fan, so I'm almost contractually obligated to defend it. (Someone really oughta Tweet this to her!)
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I could watch Brad's review of Tron then watch Spoony's
Its like watching too critics arguing it out. It's AWESOME
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Let's be honest here: The movies aren't in 3D. It's a stereo picture not a 3-dimensional one. It's just shit happening on multiple levels, not in 3-dimensional space
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thank you for appreciating what this movie was. If you were a fan of the original film, then you had to suspend some reality for this movie. Okay, yeah, programs having genders and being born from code make little sense, but the idea is to believe in a reality beyond out own. I don't really get how someone could pick on the new movie and expect it to get away from the old one. Neither of them make sense from our POV, but that's not the point. The idea is that, in this (tron) reality, computers are almost DNA sequencers. And from there... well, amazing ideas are born.
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Actually the original Tron had the programs being based on the look of their designer or primary user.
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About Spoony vs. Brad, people remember that Spoony is more like a critic. He nitpicks and analyzes things to death and that is what critics do. Now I'm not saying if the points he is so critical about are accurate but he stills makes his opinion based on very critical eye.
Brad in the other hand, based on what I've seen anyway, watches movies with pure average-joe mindset. He is there to be entertained, not to analyze the movies inconsistencies unless they are so glaringly idiotic that they cannot be ignored.
This is my observation though.
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I feel sorry for the kid, dick parrents
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Also, holy shit I just noticed. Brad is taking up smoking again?! BAD BAD BRAD!
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the stalker probably thought you were saving the seat for someone. Coat on a seat is the unofficial sign of seat saving
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I certainly do like that kind of 3D. I went with a friend to see it in the theater. I thought that it was merely decent, but he called it "awesome". Also, I wish you a blessed birthday and new year, I wish you a full recovery, and I wish you a blessed Christmas and New Year.
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God, I wonder if that annoying guy will ever find out that he was yelling at an internet celebrity haha :')
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I agree with your assessment of this movie, however I would like to comment on your opinions about 3-D.
I dislike 3-D, I dislike it because it's rarely done well and because (even when it is done well) it tends to give me a massive headache as I try to focus on things the movie doesn't want me to focus on. I went to go see Tron today with some friends and was irritated as hell that I was outvoted about going to the 3-D version.
I was totally wrong. The 3-D in this movie was awesome-sauce. I still don't like paying out the ass for it, but it was good (better than Avatar's 3-D in my humble opinion). I think the atmospheric 3-D is much more effective than the cartoony 3-D (which takes you out of the experience). Basically, the less obvious the 3-D, the more effective it is in my opinion. I'm curious as to why you like the gimmicky crap but not this. I could understand not liking either, or liking atmospheric but not gimmicky...but liking the fakey obvious 3-D and not the more subtle stuff? Oy...
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Spoilers below.
I just got home from a day on the town which included a visit to the cinema to see Tron Legacy. I wanted to see the movie without any spoilers or other peoples opinions, good or bad, which is why I've only just now watched your and Spoonys reviews of it.
I loved this movie, and your comments about it almost echoes my own thoughts with, albeit with some differences regarding the 3D.
I don't think you explicitly stated if you watched it in 3D or not, but I'm leaning towards not. I disagree with you, this movie is the one that got 3D right. It used it to very good effect. Everyone bashes on 3D being a gimmick, and I'm not really saying it's not, but it doesn't have to be. You said that once the plot moves into the Grid it's all 3D. Not entirely true, I saw a lot of scenes that took place in the Grid that used absolutely zero 3D effects, and I want to commend the makers of this movie for 'not' going the gimmick way with the 3D.
Instead of using the 3D in that gimmicky, exploitative way pretty much every other 3D movie does, in Tron it was used to accentuate and punctuate important scenes. Like when Kevin Flynn looks at Sam and Quorra, there it is very obviously used and in other scenes it's less noticeable or non-existent.
I'm generally completely critical of 3D by this point and actually don't really care much for it. But I think that this movie showed how 3D could be used well.
There are some hurdles that 3D needs to get over if it will ever become something other than a gimmick. Mainly two things. It needs to get rid of the glasses. This is possible on home equipment like handhelds and tv's, but I'm not sure if it can be done in cinemas. Nevertheless, the glasses gotta go. The other one might be unfixable, but from what I've heard about 10% of people get motion sickness when watching 3D movies. That is a big number for something as expensive as a 3D shoot.
Anyway, back to the movie. The movie is not perfect, that much is apparent. But for what it is I really liked it. I have only one thing that kinda bugged me about it. Sometimes the music became very "Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight/Inception" with a slightly repetitive but increasingly punctuated sequence of strings. A trend I see in newer movies that is kinda hit and miss for me, where Dark Knight and Inception are the only hits. But oh man, the en credits song makes up for that, and then some! I love that song! You said you could see yourself get the soundtrack, guess what? It's on Spotify! =D
I must say that I love the costume design in this movie. The re-imagining of how the outfits looks in the Grid is a really well done and creative upgrade. The crowning achievement of it being Clu's coat he wore during the games. That coat was so incredibly badass. The only bad thing about it was that he only wore it in that one scene.
I'm glad I saw this movie. I'm also kinda glad I saw it in 3D, otherwise I'd still be unconvinced that 3D 'can' be worth it. =)
Limit break XD
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Those Robot outfits Daft Punk wore in that movie is what they wear wend they do anything, no really, wend they meet the derector at an IHOP they wore them
those guys are all about the 80's
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Thank you TT_TT for justifying that People who took Crystal skulls way too seriously and nitpicked way to hard. I mean seriously Indiana Jones has always been far fetched and amazing.
I love Michael Sheen as Zeus an Daft Punk showing up XD
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That's why I always put my coat on my seat when I'm watching a movie.
After seeing Tron Legacy on Blu-Ray, I would've like to see you wear a Flynn Lives t-shirt in your V-logs like in the short film in the Bonus Features section.
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OK, I know this is a year old, but does anyone else think that an '80's Dan crossover review w/Spoony of this movie would be fuckin' HILARIOUS? LOL!
And as far as smoking goes, doesn't pretty nearly *everyone* we usually see on this site smoke? I thought so, anyway...and there's nothing wrong with it! It's only wrong if you encourage others to do so! And no, simply smoking in front of others is NOT encouragement. lol.
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