DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Big Lebowski
Just watched the new Tron Legacy in 3D
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stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Yeah, in 1998... 
Redeyes
Ptooff!
He wasn't in IRON MAN 2.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh yeah, he was the baddie in Iron man 1. Rubbish.
Kanda
Diving wanker
It mentions at the beginning that not all scenes are in 3D but to leave your glasses on. So, doubt it.
Redeyes
Ptooff!
Ahhh nice one. Didn't know it was mentioned at the start of the film.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Totally. And wouldn't need any makeup if they er shot a Babylon 5 film set in the future...koff koff.
Reno
The In Kraut
I'm trying to think of the last time he was actually any good in anything...
He won an Oscar last year for Crazy Heart and he's even better in this years new one by the Coen Brothers, True Grit.
Also The Door in the Floor, Tideland and he was actually very good in Iron Man.
When is Jeff Bridges ever bad ?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
One to many Star Wars nods, great visuals, very cool soundtrack but it felt more like a long epilogue to the first film than one in it's own right. The beginning and end seemed to be the only parts that attempted emotion.
Wonder what they'll do with number three?
Wonder what they'll do with number three?
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
He won an Oscar last year for Crazy Heart and he's even better in this years new one by the Coen Brothers, True Grit.
Also The Door in the Floor, Tideland and he was actually very good in Iron Man.
When is Jeff Bridges ever bad ?
Fair enough, I've not seen those, but it was a genuine query not an allegation against his ability.
When is he bad? Men Who Stare at Goats, for one.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
He was good for the few minutes he's in it. They really missed a trick with not having Tron play a bigger role...
hegley
never odd or even
I quite enjoyed Michael Sheen hamming it up.
The effects much cop, then, on an IMAX screen?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
That's from the original film that, cap'n.
You don't say.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Well, I saw it last night at the IMAX. The 3D didn't feel as dramatic as it did in Avatar, but that might have been because the stupidly huge size of the IMAX screen kind of drowns out any other visual effects (unless they're as aggressive as one of the plugs for the 3D tech that was on beforehand, which was sending all sorts of words straight into your face and made me wave my hands in front of me and say "whuh! get away!")
Good bits:
* lightcycles - that's a good scene
* soundtrack
* Jeff Bridges does give it some, within the constraints of the...
Shit bits:
* Characters very dull and clichéd. Particularly protagonist who is also made of rubber. At least the programs have the excuse that they're supposed to be programs.
* Too much nicked from other sci-fi films, not in "homage" mode but "unimaginative" mode.
* Some action sequences fall into the trap - which isn't unique to 3D films, but 3D makes it worse - of having lots of quite close fast-moving shots of blurry fast-moving spiralling objects, occasionally exploding or hitting stuff, where you can't tell what the fuck is going on and after a while you just shut down and wait until things stop moving. Just because you _can_ do this with CGI doesn't mean you _should_.
* Tron character _criminally_ underused and not explored at all.
* Hero has crap dog.
Meh:
* Bit long, for no good reason.
* Discs not used as well as they could have been, though not too bad.
* Some nice scenery but cityscapes could have been more dramatic - the real world ones are actually more impressive.
Good bits:
* lightcycles - that's a good scene
* soundtrack
* Jeff Bridges does give it some, within the constraints of the...
Shit bits:
* Characters very dull and clichéd. Particularly protagonist who is also made of rubber. At least the programs have the excuse that they're supposed to be programs.
* Too much nicked from other sci-fi films, not in "homage" mode but "unimaginative" mode.
* Some action sequences fall into the trap - which isn't unique to 3D films, but 3D makes it worse - of having lots of quite close fast-moving shots of blurry fast-moving spiralling objects, occasionally exploding or hitting stuff, where you can't tell what the fuck is going on and after a while you just shut down and wait until things stop moving. Just because you _can_ do this with CGI doesn't mean you _should_.
* Tron character _criminally_ underused and not explored at all.
* Hero has crap dog.
Meh:
* Bit long, for no good reason.
* Discs not used as well as they could have been, though not too bad.
* Some nice scenery but cityscapes could have been more dramatic - the real world ones are actually more impressive.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I saw it last night, at the IMAX.
It passed the time and it was kind of enjoyable but I was generally underwhelmed. It's even cheesier than Avatar (which is the only other thing I've seen in 3D). The script is pretty awful. The aesthetic I didn't find very imaginative.
I don't think it really qualifies as sci-fi. There isn't really anything to stimulate any brain cells, other than annoying them.
One of the main reasons I went was for the Daft Punk soundtrack. But while bits were sort of recognisable as such, mostly I thought it was a fairly conventional film soundtrack, nothing really special.
Leaving the cinema and walking along the south bank at 2am with the Thames mirror calm, no people in sight, and the silhouettte of the houses of parliament looming in the mist with all the floodlighting turned off, was arguably a more engaging visual experience than anything in the film.
So, that's what I thought of Tron Legacy anyway.
It passed the time and it was kind of enjoyable but I was generally underwhelmed. It's even cheesier than Avatar (which is the only other thing I've seen in 3D). The script is pretty awful. The aesthetic I didn't find very imaginative.
I don't think it really qualifies as sci-fi. There isn't really anything to stimulate any brain cells, other than annoying them.
One of the main reasons I went was for the Daft Punk soundtrack. But while bits were sort of recognisable as such, mostly I thought it was a fairly conventional film soundtrack, nothing really special.
Leaving the cinema and walking along the south bank at 2am with the Thames mirror calm, no people in sight, and the silhouettte of the houses of parliament looming in the mist with all the floodlighting turned off, was arguably a more engaging visual experience than anything in the film.
So, that's what I thought of Tron Legacy anyway.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Fridge is spot on about Tron, why they didn't make it partly about his redemption and then being left to run the grid after Flynn and C.L.U. went I don't know...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
saw it at IMAX in Cardiff, wasn't expecting much and thought it was fucking awesome 
well, in special effects and visual aesthetic anyway... not much else going on right enough, especially in terms of plot, but who cares - it was TRON in 3D. kept me happy....
well, in special effects and visual aesthetic anyway... not much else going on right enough, especially in terms of plot, but who cares - it was TRON in 3D. kept me happy....strung out
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this is what i'm hoping for too.
Pseudopsycho
I ate all your bees
If you can limit your expectations to a rich neon aesthetic with a good soundtrack and healthy portions of ham and cheese, you'll have a great time
strung out
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like the original film then
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I found this the other day. The review gives it an almost perfect score just because of the computer effects (all 15 minutes of them).
Kids film with a daft plot.
"the plot gets a bit lost but anything more would have been a waste of time. The visuals carry the film 9 out of 10"
Wowzers.
Kids film with a daft plot.
"the plot gets a bit lost but anything more would have been a waste of time. The visuals carry the film 9 out of 10"
Wowzers.
i_got_poison
New Member
i wanted to like this so badly.
where was the script? usually action sequences hide this fact, but there wasn't enough of it and some of the preable to it was terrible.
i can't put into words how disappointed i was with this.
disney really dropped the ball on this.
where was the script? usually action sequences hide this fact, but there wasn't enough of it and some of the preable to it was terrible.
i can't put into words how disappointed i was with this.
disney really dropped the ball on this.
