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Tron: Legacy (2010) | Nattosheru Review [ENG/SPA]@nattosenpai224d
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  1. Maybe Tron Legacy Was the Last Time Disney Took a Real Risk...@chris-chris92265d

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    Anyone who revisits Tron Legacy today discovers that it is not really a sequel, but a meditation on what cinema became once it started imitating its own algorithms. The original Tron from 1982 looked like a clumsy experiment then, yet it opened a door that Hollywood would spend decades pretending to understand. Legacy walks through that door with the arrogance of precision. Everything in it feels engineered to perfection, polished until all warmth is gone. And that absence becomes part of its beauty. Watching it now feels like stepping inside an immaculate cathedral where sound and light have replaced faith. It is not emotion that drives the story forward, but the geometry of its own design.

    Beneath that surface, something fragile still moves. The film pretends to speak about fathers and sons, but what it really exposes is the distance between creation and control. Kevin Flynn dreamed of a perfect system and built a mirror that erased him. Sam inherits that mirror and tries to find the human trace left behind. What makes this contradiction so magnetic is not the dialogue, which often collapses under its own symbolism, but the pulse of the world around it. The editing is clean like code executing itself, and the rhythm of the images replaces narrative logic. There is little need for psychology when the machinery itself becomes character.

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    Calling Tron Legacy cold misses the point. It was always meant to be cold. The Grid is not a world for feelings; it is an idea of order. That sterile perfection reflects not only the logic of its characters but also the state of modern cinema. The film industry keeps promising innovation while recycling formulas, chasing the illusion of progress without risk. Disney, almost by accident, financed one of its most alien works here. For a studio that thrives on emotional predictability, producing a film this detached was an act of strange courage. It was also prophetic. The film revealed a future where aesthetics would dominate meaning, where the surface would outshine the soul.

    Daft Punk’s score is the only human element that survives the cold. It enters like a pulse from another dimension, electric but desperate. Their music does not decorate the film; it sustains it. The orchestra and the synthesizer do not compete but confess to each other, merging in something that sounds like machinery learning to breathe. When the light cycles begin to move in rhythm with that sound, the effect is hypnotic. The fans who stayed loyal to Tron Legacy were not defending its story but protecting that feeling, that sense of standing inside a space built entirely of sound and movement. The music made the impossible idea of the Grid believable because it gave it blood.

    Even after fifteen years, Tron Legacy stands as a misunderstood relic that still feels ahead of its time. It never became a cultural monument, but it aged with dignity. The film’s power lies in how it captures a paradox that defines our age: the dream of perfection that quietly kills the imperfect things that make us alive. Its world remains one of the most carefully crafted visions in cinema, yet what lingers is not its digital precision but the human loneliness it hides. Every fan who keeps defending it knows this, even if they do not say it out loud. The film asks a question that no sequel could answer: if the system achieves purity, what happens to the soul that built it. In that silence, Tron Legacy finds its meaning, and maybe its eternity.

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  2. Tron Legacy - Movie Review@coldsteem2684d

    Anyone who survived the 80s, with Mall Hair (or Flock of Seagulls coifs), Leg Warmers (gag me with a spoon), those Desperately Seeking Susan Gloves, Rubik's Cubes, jelly shoes and Member's Only jackets...owes it to themselves to see this film.  Even if none of those horrible 80s fads made it into this film (aside from some Journey and The Eurythmics), the very concept of Tron is steeped in eighties culture.

    This review is going to be fairly straight-forward.  There is not a whole lot to say about the film.  Everyone is doing 3-D movies even when it doesn't add dimension to the story.  It seems like Hollywood can't resist churning out garbage like Toy Story 3 in 3-D.  With the awful glut of worthless 3-D movies we have seen, the format fits this film.  Tron: Legacy may not be thought-provoking, but it is great eye candy.  The CGI was amazing, allowing two versions of Jeff Bridges (one young, one old) to do some pretty amazing things.  The animation transports viewers to an incredible 3-D world where it seems there are no limits.  While Tron: Legacy can't touch The Matrix, the visually stunning cinematography makes it worth seeing in 3-D. It was amazing when it was still in the theater.

    What Tron: Legacy is not:  Spoiler Alert  Tron: Legacy has no plot.  Well, I guess technically it does.  The idea is so hackneyed it is hardly worth discussing.  Boys father disappears leaving the boy feeling like he was abandoned.  They are later reunited, where the boy learns his father tried to come back, but was prevented by fate.  The father sacrifices himself for his boy.  Beyond that...the rest was distraction.  Mere opportunities to allow the special effects crew to dazzle the audience.

    You may think I am being harsh.  But there was this undercurrent of "opposition forces" that have heard rumors that the status quo may be challenged.  That potential sub-plot consisted of about three lines and then rapidly vaporized.  I thought "finally, some substance."  The characters were flat and predictable and even the lines were gimmes.  The writing was nothing short of horrible.  At least one exceptional actor was squandered away on a sappy story line that constantly felt like deja vu.

    Oh yeah...Tron lives.  Another sub-plot that could have been developed a little bit.  What do we get?  Another two minutes worth of screen time devoted to a weak plot twist with no foundation.  There was so much potential here for plot and character development wasted on long sequences where the pacing seemed off.  The sluggish sections of this film could easily have been replaced with some scenes that actually counted toward the story.  Ugh.

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    This is a tough film for me to rate.  Visually it is a five.  The writing probably a two (if I'm being generous).  It is a film that should be seen in 3-D on the big screen.  I don't have a 3-D television, so I am not sure how the 3-D translates to the smaller format. So I am in a quandary.  I want desperately to give this film a high recommendation and to somehow justify it.  But then I think about the ratings I have given some other films and realize that it is the nostalgia talking. This two hour, five minute film is rated PG. Good for all ages.  6.5/10.

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  3. "TRON: Legacy" by Joseph Kosinski - movie review@godflesh2913d

    Jump to the question. "TRON: The Covenant" filled my soul. I have not seen a movie that has so much enjoyed me and awakened the absolute hole in me - none of them did the job. So far! I hurry to say that the film is not sinless, it has its own balls, but at least in my eyes they remain totally insignificant and will not find a place in my final assessment because for the first time I write for a long time with my heart and not with my mind . I've always been a Star Wars child, but Tron was the movie that opened my eyes to the vast world of computers. Even today, when the movie is undoubtedly outdated - computers are developing for hours and days, and what's left for 30 years - it brings a wonderful sense of the elapsed time encoded in both the unique, lightweight, three-dimensional visual style, and in the story itself, which is a collection of two extremely simple ideas. What would happen if one could physically transfer to the world of computers and what if programs and machines can think on their own and one day they decide to take control in their hands. These same simple ideas are also expressed in "TRON: The Covenant". The story, without giving you too much (I think the less you know about it, the better) is the following: Kevin Flynn visits his web every day, where with the help of the Tron programs and the self-made Clu (number 2) explores her limits, trying to create the "perfect system". One day, however, there is a "miracle" that changes absolutely everything. That's when Kevin Flynn disappears from the face of the ground. Twenty years later, his son Sam takes his tracks and falls into the fantastic world of the network, filled with live, thinking programs where he is forced to take part in gladiatorial battles with discs and light motors. In this world, Sam discovers Flynn who has been locked up by his own creation, and they both try to stop Clu's enormous power and popularity before he implements his diabolical plan.

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    But let's just leave this aside and talk about something else. I do not need to tell you that his vision is one of the most powerful trumps of the film. "TRON: The Covenant" is just a triumph of the visual presentation. From the modern "design" of suits, the atmosphere and the entire physical environment of the grid (if you do not know that the director has been involved in architecture, he will be quick to light up), motorcycle lights, cars and flying jets, dozens of Star Wars references hell, there's even a bright two-edged sword) the vision simply strikes. From this part, the most commented aspect, with no hesitation, will be the digital recreation of the young Jeff Bridges. At times Clu looks almost horrible, but his artificiality somehow resonates with the image and it does not irritate that much. Alas, for the young Flynn in retrospection there's nothing to say, it's bad, but believe me telling you that's nothing. The audio design is no less impressive than the visual one. The world of the net and the Thronis extremely rich in sounds and at times the experience is literally shattering. We can not look at this aspect, not to mention just the phenomenal soundtrack of Daft Punk, which created music that stands out from absolutely all the traditional compositions we have heard recently (and not only) that complements and develops every scene from the movie (that even saves the situation a few times when things are not really excellent) and which mixes with the sound landscape in a unique way.

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    At least I did not find any defect in the picture or anything else that made me record the fact that I was looking at glasses. This is probably the most irritating of the converted films and I'm glad it was missing here. You just sink and watch. As I mentioned at the beginning, typical of such films and "TRON: The Covenant" suffers from certain scenario problems. The main threat in the movie is slightly naive and implausible, the structure of the narrative is cumbersome, and most of the images are very roughly characterized and have little or no development, and even one or two are simply superfluous. Instead, there is a real wealth of themes and ideas in the background. I wrote a whole decree in an attempt to illustrate how, with a slight desire, one can find seeds of quantum computer ideas, artificial intelligence, the evolution of digital beings, etc., not to mention psychological Freudian problems, genocide, and the Frankenstein collision between man and his work. Even lovers of theology can find themes that excite them - the religious thread was still in the first film, and here it is further developed. Although I'm not one of those things, one of Flynn's godlike appearances, where the programs awe in front of him, is one of my favorites. As I said, much can be said about this aspect, but I really do not see the point. What is important to me is that "TRON: The Covenant" managed to bring me back to my childhood and to delight me just as it had not happened to me for a long time, and its defects in no way spoiled my pleasure . Therefore, because of those of you who are more difficult to forgive, I end with Flynn's words: "Perfection is unattainable." Enjoy the movie about what it is and do not spoil it for what it is not.

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