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darkknightkryta on 01 January 2011
The Ghost of RubangB said:
darkknightkryta said:

Question to people, why are people saying the story lacks substance?  I mean, I'm just a bit curious as to why people thought it was "meh"?  I personally loved it, saw the movie without any reviews.  It was kinda odd finding out after I watched the movie that people didn't like it, or reviewers for that matter.

Compare it to Inception.

In both movies, the majority of the action takes place in a virtual world where stuff isn't real.  You have digital programs and you have dream projections.  Nobody's real except for a few main characters.

The difference is that Inception connects the virtual world to the real world in several ways: the relationship problems with the wife, the legal problems with getting to America, the family troubles with the grandparents and the kids, assembling the team, finding the right drugs, and doing recon.  They even develop all the characters before they go into the dream world.  You have reasons to care about the characters before they go into magic land.

In TRON: Legacy, you have a boring motorcycle-riding doosh with no personality that could have been played by any schmuck in Hollywood without us noticing the difference.  All we know about him is that he is the primary shareholder and plays an annual prank, and then BLAM, an hour of awesome fights, races, music, and special effects before the actual plot gets started in the 3rd act with their discussion of the history of the grid and their escape attempt.  All they introduce about the real world is the first scene at the company, and then it never comes back up and isn't even important.  The first half and the second half of the movie almost have nothing to do with each other.  Because the main character doesn't matter, and has no family or goals in the real world, he could die and it wouldn't matter.  The stakes just aren't as high as they were in the first movie.  It just looks and sounds AMAZING the whole way through.

The first quater you mean?  He was in the grid within the first 20 minutes of the movie, after that it was all about the grid and CLU wanting to get out.  Though from what I've been gathering most people just don't like the main character.



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greenmedic88 on 01 January 2011

Maybe the character of Sam Flynn didn't resonate with male sci-fi viewers because it's kind of hard to relate to the typical "deposed prince" archetype.

He owns the majority share stake of what would be the equivalent of MS, IBM and Intel combined, yet spends his days planning clever pranks on his own company while abstaining from taking an active role in the company he essentially owns due to unresolved issues over the mysterious loss of his father from 20 years ago.

When he's transported onto the Grid, he inexplicably has near mythical powers relative to the programs, despite the lack of character development that demonstrated he was a game playing virtuoso like his father and more or less lacking the same brilliance as his father who is essentially the God of the Grid, having personally coded the key components of the world. Kevin Flynn was more believable as a protagonist in the original film as a result.

Plus Sam is able to transport the Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-looking Quorra back into the real world and ride off together on his bike into the sunset. Yeah. There's going to be a whole lot of empathy there.

Personally, I really liked the movie. I was a little disappointed by most of the 3D Imax presentation (nothing like Avatar), but it is actually a movie I'd buy on BD when it comes out, despite my dwindling movie buying habits thanks to RedBox.

But then I've always been a fan of the original film, when it's been fashionable to trash it for the last 20 plus years.



Kennyheart on 01 January 2011

I liked it a lot. The story is the weakest part of the flim but it still a good flim. It's the second best flim to see in right now other than true grit.