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Post by Alex on Mar 12, 2009 21:54:59 GMT
I'm utterly amazed they didn't just call it Tron 2.0.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Mar 12, 2009 22:03:16 GMT
YS! Nooo! Also: Tron 2.0 was the game, methinks...
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Post by Baron Canier on Mar 12, 2009 22:17:04 GMT
Nobody complained when Se7en did it.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Mar 12, 2009 22:20:49 GMT
It annoys me! Also when a friend texted me with the word "f9" to mean "fine". >.< I read that as "fuh-nine!" It makes no sense! Now, [censored] internet cafe in GTA, that was funny...
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Post by rj on Jul 27, 2009 19:00:05 GMT
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Post by rj on Mar 11, 2010 3:42:37 GMT
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Post by madhair60 on Mar 11, 2010 10:13:17 GMT
we 2 ron ron
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Post by Blizz on Mar 11, 2010 11:44:31 GMT
Ooooh.....
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Mar 11, 2010 13:46:45 GMT
Most intriguing. I think I'd better watch the first one before this comes out.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Mar 11, 2010 17:07:21 GMT
Freakin sweet - those sentinel ship type thingies are in it! They used to scare me behind the sofa when I was a kid!! I wonder how they will fit it into how modern games look?
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Post by Shadic? on Mar 12, 2010 1:32:51 GMT
Nah, you probably only like it because it's old and about computers. It really is [censored]. Watch it again. I know this was said nearly 2 years ago, but it's just so correct. Tron isn't a great movie, and I think a lot of the hype revolving around this sequel is either from people who have never seen it or have a rose tinted perspective of it.
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Post by rj on Mar 12, 2010 9:21:39 GMT
or people who like daft punk
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Post by WinterFlames on Mar 12, 2010 10:34:37 GMT
I know this was said nearly 2 years ago, but it's just so correct. Tron isn't a great movie, and I think a lot of the hype revolving around this sequel is either from people who have never seen it or have a rose tinted perspective of it. Read this. Almost completly agree. Still like the original. You can still just like things even if they're crap, right?
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Post by Alex on Mar 15, 2010 19:36:28 GMT
I saw a trailer for this in IMAX 3D yesterday.
It's very pretty and cool looking. Will probably see it on the basis of that alone.
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Post by madhair60 on Oct 29, 2010 10:20:01 GMT
Incredibly awesome bump. I saw about 25 minutes of this last night at a wee preview thingy, and it was risible. They actually spoiled one of the main dramatic reveals, in the course of a few preview scenes. The 3D wasn't very good, either. I could go into detail but it would still just sound like I was making it up. There's a disc battle that the lead character wins by smashing the floor underneath his opponent. The lead character (name escapes me, obv) spends a lot of time being incredulous, but not incredulous enough. He's crap at acting. There's a really weird, strained scene taking place in a garage. The lead girl is cute. There was a brief snatch of lightcycle, which was kind of tedious. They break out of the lightcycle arena thing and [censored] off through some mountains.
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Post by WinterFlames on Nov 2, 2010 16:41:54 GMT
"New" trailer.
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Post by Baron Canier on Dec 28, 2010 20:59:56 GMT
This movie failed at basic storytelling. Looked nice, though.
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Post by Nam on Dec 29, 2010 22:02:04 GMT
This movie failed at basic storytelling. Looked nice, though. I agreed until you said it looked nice. I thought it looked awful, the neon gets in the way too much, and doesn't make it look anything like it's virtual reality, something the original somehow succeeded at in the eighties. The film is just a big mess of orange, black, and blue, hoping that pretty lights will be enough to distract you from the lack of anything interesting to see. As far as plot goes, it was a forgettable, and tedious, by-the-numbers affair, with predictable sequences, obvious twists, and generally flat, disinteresting characters. The actual story itself only seemed to have a strenuous connection to the original at best, and there was nothing about the connection that mae it worth being a sequal. The plot was so far removed you could've very easily swapped all mentions of computers and technology for alternate dimensions or alien worlds and the plot would've still been identical. There was almost nothing of merit to the film. Not one bit really stood out as exceptional. It wasn't awful, it didn't make me storm out of the cinema and demand a refund, but it was just forgettable, and ultimately just fills the "soft stupid action sci-fi" niche that gets filled for the few people going to the cinema over Christmas who don't want to watch kids films.
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Post by Arch_one_zero_one on Dec 29, 2010 22:12:31 GMT
I think that the 'sequel connection' stuff was probably intentional, what with the original being so old and difficult to get hold of. I went with four people, all aged 20-23, and out of us, I was the only one who'd seen the original.
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Post by Nam on Dec 29, 2010 22:22:13 GMT
You miss my point. There was nothing in this story that made it a requirement to be a sequel to Tron other than a couple of names and the Lightcycle scene. Changes the names, and turn the light cycls into another armed vehicle, and you've got an entirely independant story that doesn't have anything to do with Tron, and is in it's own rights it's own story. It's like they took a mediocre film, looked for an eighties licence, applied a few token elements to it, and threw it out hoping the nostalgia would sell.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Dec 29, 2010 22:27:06 GMT
... and, SUCCESS! Their plan worked! You paid money for their film! I nearly went to see this today, as I wanted to see it in 3D shinyness. (explanation; all 3D films in the Czech Rep. are dubbed into Czech as 3D apparently can't handle subtitles very well.... *sigh*) But I slipped on the [censored]ty pavements they have in this town and smacked my head open instead. Saved me 8 quid though!! Cheers, karma! L:D
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Post by ShayMay on Dec 29, 2010 22:34:15 GMT
Jesus. You alright? And the original Tron bored me oot ma tits, so I had no intention of seeing this one at all. Cue me getting called a party-pooper (only in more harsh words) when the gullible idiots who constitute a large number of my friends wanted to go see it.
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Post by Nam on Dec 29, 2010 23:07:05 GMT
... and, SUCCESS! Their plan worked! You paid money for their film! It was more "Cal's mother and father wanted some time alone during a power cut, so they gave Cal some money to take me and her brother to the cinema." I had no intenton of watching it otherwise, heck, I didn't even know it was showing, that's how far out of the loop I was with this (and several other) films. Had there been anything better, we'd've seen that, but that was the best of a bad choice in a cinema in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Dec 29, 2010 23:35:08 GMT
Dragging off the entire group because you were underwhelmed by a separate film made twenty-eight years ago? Sorry, but "party-pooper" sounds about right, really. Talk about being the dog in the manger.
Anyway, I found Tron: Legacy entertaining and worth seeing, but there was definite room for improvement. Positvely, the aesthetics were superb, there was good direction (Sam's suiting-up scene with the footfalls matching the music, for example) and while I'm not especially a fan of Daft Punk (I've watched that video of the girls in sports bras and cardboard boxes on their heads dancing the Robot to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", and that's about it) the soundtrack was very resonant and evocative. I appreciated the more restrained and understated use of 3D to add depth rather than fling spinny things in our faces, and it was interesting to see that for all of its scifi trappings the film was actually a very overt religious allegory, giving the Gospels a fresh lick of neon paint with Sam as a Christ figure and Clu a critique of the arrogance and hypocrisy of militant atheism.
Where the film fell down though was its dialogue, with a lot of it being flat and plain and frankly insipid. I was rewriting lines in my head for half the film and it was only Zeus's showmanlike turn in the club that injected a flailing spurt of energy into a generally flaccid and enervated delivery. Consequently, although I could identify with a lot of what the film was addressing it was difficult to rouse much emotion about it. I can also see the Evil Encom Executives in the opening act as being plot hooks for a sequel, although that trope's starting to become a little worn now.
So, the film wasn't perfect by any means but I'd call it a worthwhile evening, although not for a repeat viewing. As a skeleton on which to breathe the flesh of a franchise it has decent strength.
I hope you're recovering well, Mambo, sorry to hear about your injury.
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Post by ShayMay on Dec 29, 2010 23:47:19 GMT
Er... I didn't "drag anyone off", I said I wouldn't go. During the event's organisation, I declined from attending, which earned me some pithy comments from my peers.
i didn't like storm off in the huff outside of the cinema cos that's not being a party-pooper so much as a [censored]
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