TRON: Legacy is a fantastic sequel

It’s not just gorgeous to look at, with special effects that still largely hold up today. It’s not just that it’s fun, and packed with stunts and set pieces that up the ante from the original. And it’s not just the utterly spectacular score from Daft Punk with its sensory overload.It’s a thoughtful piece of sci-fi, filled with complex and interesting religious and philosophical concepts.Kevin Flynn, trapped in the Grid for decades in our real world - perhaps thousands of years (or “cycles”) in the digital one - is a creator, a God, to the programs he made. Clu, his digital copy that never ages, was tasked by Flynn to create a “perfect” system. And with that task, becomes a dictator who wipes out any “imperfection,” including the genocide of a race of programs called “ISO’s” that made themselves independent of Flynn and Clu’s original vision. Clu rebels against his Creator. And it’s up to Flynn’s son, Sam, who enters the Grid, tries to save his Father, and is tasked with confronting a villain who was made in his father’s image... A villain who looks just like his father did when he abandoned him decades before.Sure, there’s some pacing problems about 2/3rds of the way through the movie. And some of it’s philosophy and “bio-digital jazz, man” can be a little obtuse and hokey. If anything, this movie doubles down on the more abstract ideas of the original film.But I applaud it for that. And it IS interesting.And even while some of the de-ageing effects on Jeff Bridges to create Clu don’t entirely stand up today and reach an “uncanny valley” effect (like Tarkin in Rogue One), I would argue that it actually works in the movie’s favor. Clu is creepy. And he IS a computer program, after all. A waxy, digital representation of Flynn. The uncanny valley-ness in what is probably the only special effect that doesn’t hold up in 2020 still holds up from a story sense.And again, that Daft Punk score is so badass.Anyway, just wanted to give some love to an imperfect film, but one that is a thoughtful and largely (artistically) successful sequel to the groundbreaking original.“The thing about perfection is that it's unknowable. It's impossible, but it's also right in front of us, all the time. You wouldn't know that because I didn't, when I created you.” via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3c31OSS