TRON: Legacy (2010)

Nice effects though.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I just watched this again, for maybe the third or fourth time. It seems that I enjoy it just a bit more each time. Visually stunning...I do not get the amount of negative reaction when it was first released. The original had a lot of nostalgia around it, and maybe that colored what people were expecting of this. I enjoyed the original. I enjoyed this one. Both films are a bit different from a lot of stuff that is out there, and that may also have had an impact for people's expectations. Okay...it's not a Marvel superhero movie. But frankly, I am getting a little burned out on those. And maybe that is why I enjoyed this re-watch. Sci-fi/action where I could just enjoy the outstanding visuals, and great soundtrack. It's a great movie to just enjoy, part of which is that it doesn't want you to take it too seriously. Also, because this was a re-watch, I was able to focus a bit more on how the scenes were constructed, the "art", versus focusing on the story. Which may be a part of why I enjoyed it more.And now I'm disappointed, as any further sequel seems to be in limbo. I am curious to see what the plan was for where the story would go.

Having seen the original Tron movie from 1982 I held high hopes for this sequel. But I was very disappointed. The story isn't as original as the movie from 1982. It is more like a mixture of Star Wars, the Matrix and the Lord of the Rings. The story line about Cru building a great army that looks almost identical to the drones from Star Wars. The planes with the folded wings is another one that give away the lack of originality in the script. Some scenes are from the Matrix like the wasted landscape seeing from the house of Flynn watching at the Machine City. The scenes with Zuse are a bad copy of the role of Merovingian in the Matrix reloaded. And the ISO are just a faint image of the Elfs from the Lord of the Rings. And that Rinzler was Tron was given away the moment he said: "User". The role of Tron was completely undervalued, he is in the movie but at the same time he is more like a shadow. I had hope that the director and cast had shown some creativity but it is was it is and it ain't much.

Personally, I give it a 10. I know I might even be overrating it, still, but I LOVE this movie, even though there are some things clearly wrong with it - the characters and dialogue aren't exactly revelations. You've seen them before. Personally, I hated the dryness and neediness of "female warrior" Quorra - otherwise, they're relatively harmless, which is the problem. You might as well call them cutouts, though Jeff Bridges is an absolute JOY to watch.The plots a little vague as well - half the time (on the 1st watch) you don't really know why things are or what, but it's MUCH easier to follow than it's predecessor.But what the film does great, it does AMAZINGLY. The visuals are overwhelmingly unique, gorgeous, and atmospheric, the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard, and they work together very well. The SPX are great, the sets are great - even when we're not in the grid, the city is beautifully portrayed. This was a very well-made, very attractive film, and not in a Hollywood sort of way where the "animation" is good or the "CG is nice." No.I was aware that this was a Disney film when I started watching this - that was part of the reason why I was so uninterested in it at first. It was in the middle of a lot of Disney flops at the time, though when I finally saw it, I was blown away. Pleasantly surprised - it has a darker, colder tone to it, more mature every other Disney movie - even feeling almost like a stylish indie at times. Again - this film isn't genius. It's not great, technically as a film, but turned out to be a personal favorite of mine and is destined to be a classic just like the original with it's unique tone, visuals, and soundtrack. GODDAMN THAT SOUNDTRACK. Watch this to know for sure for yourself - it's understandable if you don't like it, it really is. But if you enjoy it - then you probably will REALLY enjoy it. It's an experience.

Where do I start with this piece of crud?Disney made a beautiful film in 1982 entitled TRON, about a computer genius named Flynn who is zapped into the digital world and battles a tyrannical program called the MCP (Master Control Program). Everything about this original movie was wonderful. Computers had only started becoming household and office items in the 80's as the world experienced a computer revolution. In that culture, Disney created a imagined world were programs designed by man looked, talked and even thought like man. They also believed they were created by "the Users" and looked to their Users for the direction of their life. In TRON LEGACY, much of that world seemed discarded by the writers. Users were spoken of in disdain by programs in the new movie and apparently new age thinking was introduced by throwing in evolution (the ISOs.. really?!?), reinventing Flynn, who apparently no longer had Godlike powers over a silly program he created (CLU) and giving us Oliva Wilde with nothing to do other than walk around in a skintight, glowing bodysuit. The plot was confusing and muddled and the ending of the movie made ZERO sense. It's like the script writers looked a few panels of the original TRON without actually watching it. They drop a few homages to the original, like Dillenger's son being back at ENCOM and the whole "Now that's a big door!" joke that felt pushed into the new movie. I felt embarrassed for my date who paid to take me to this movie, especially after she had sat with me as I played the original for her on DVD. She got cheated, I got cheated and so did everyone else who paid to watch this piece of crud. The rotten cherry on top of this was an ending where Oliva Wilde's character (a program with no previous flesh or blood form in our physical world) ends up in our physical world, riding a motorcycle with Flynn's son. She's a FREAKING PROGRAM (ones and zeros in a line of code),not at all like Flynn, who was a human who went into the digital world! I should have known this would be a bomb when all anyone talked about what the Light Cycles fight. Even that part of the movie wasn't as good as the original TRON Light Cycle fight. This movie gets a 2 from me and only because of the CGI. Beyond that part, it's irredeemable.Note to Disney: when you create a world with specific laws (i.e. - Users are all powerful), you can't just discard it when you make a sequel, even if it's two decades later. Continuity matters!!!