FAILED LEGACY

Tron: Legacy

Some thoughts...

The visual identity is interesting, a decent riff off the original, but it looks "cool" in a completely expected way like everything else today whereas the original Tron still looks totally unique. It feels like a blinged out image over content takeover, screwing with the mythology of the original.

That girl is moderately attractive and I like her hair at least. She's super hot when her arm gets destroyed. Though I think the hottest aspects are really just her hair, eye makeup and outfit.

The lead dude is boring, can't believe they didn't cram Shialabluff in there.

Short sighted mediocrity musically in opting for completely played out orchestral shorthand, should have let Daft Punk reign free. Crystalline sequencer fractals and sub bass melodics would have made more sense. All orchestra should have been replaced with string synths. There was some, but not enough.

I also completely hate the standardized over the top Hong Kong aerial Kung Fu battle physics and hairs width slo-mo dodges here and in basically any action movie today, they don't look cool at all anymore, and the absolute unreality of the physics forces a Brechtian disconnect from any immersion, which defeats the purpose of an 'immersive' environment.

The jet battle was pretty solid, and was the only interesting fight.

They made the grid world WAY TOO human, an argument could be made for the more complicated "lives" of modern day programs vs. 80's pong programs, but it's too easy a solution.

The mouth on the Jeff Bridges animation looks like shit, and the alcoholic floppy mouth on the real old Jeff Bridges is annoying too. Though, I would sacrifice a child to see him and Rip Torn drunkenly singing sea shanties.

There's no clever and quotable dialogue like in the original, and it's annoying how they quote the original film throughout.

There was one "Wilhelm Scream".

Oh, and the fake David Bowie should have just been real David Bowie, but with his old teeth "CGI'd" in.