Anyone seen TRON?

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    I went to see the original when it came out and I'd say there is no way this could compete, as the original came out at just the right time, not just because it was groundbreaking in terms of film and cg, but it tapped into the generation that first experienced what gaming was (Pong etc).

    But Tron2 is good, and succeeds on quite a few levels. The visuals are stunning, no question. Costume and conceptual designs were brilliant & actually they tackled casting as well as you could in the situation although The CG Flynn in the real world looked a bit waxy...

    Everything in the 'Game world' worked, and made sense in terms of an evolution of a story, but this is where the good stuff ends.

    The real world stuff was just plain lazy. Again, on a few levels. I felt like they just couldn't be arsed to think things through, and you could tell they wanted to move to the Game world as soon as possible.
    One offending scene, as an example, is the lead up to Flynn's arcade - where Flynn's son gets the keys, opens the door (and just leaves it open behing him??), then switches the power on and all the arcade machines power on, and then - and this is the first unrealistic scenario- he notices a tiny mark in the floor - (which realistically he wouldn't give a crap about), then one thing leads to another and he works out that the machine is a secret door (er... yeah right!) - to a secret room...
    The next bit of laziness is where you dont see how he gets sucked in or brought back into the real world - it's like the director thought, fuck it, we cant think how this would be done, so let's let the viewer do the work - LAZY!

    Anyway cant be arsed to say anymore - oh apart from - its definitely worth seeing - but make sure you see it in 3d.

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    • My favorite over the top moment was when he parachuted off the building for no apparent reasonabettertomorrow
    • It was kind of like the vine swinging scene with the monkeys in Indiana Jonesabettertomorrow
    • Yeh, good call, that was just another 'what the fuck was that for' moment...AVAVA
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