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As an aside the Daft Punk soundtrack that accompanies this film is an absolute masterpiece. I think it's their best work.

It's such a shame the film doesn't live up to it's own soundtrack.

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As someone in music, yeah, that was one of the best movie soundtrack’s of all time (not much like it in movies beforehand).

But kind of disagree about the film, think it was under appreciated. It isn’t a masterpiece, but the acting, the overall story, and the visuals were really good. And yeah, those dark Tron-visuals combined with the pulsing, digital daft-punk music really worked (at least for me), and when I want to get pulled into a different world, will rewatch that film.

Yeah I still rewatch it occasionally. I feel like it’s full of missed opportunities, and you have to shut your brain off, but it’s still good fun.

Agreed, good way to put it:)

The Overture sounds like Chariots of Fire and The Lord of the Rings had a baby in the beginning, followed by a Kraftwerk wannabe who couldn't afford a vocoder.

haha, not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing:)

Bad. Very bad.

Maybe it's my prejudice against helmets - I bike 120km every weekend without one, so sue me - but Daft P annoy me.

haha, all good, to each their own:)

I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.

Made more or less this point at the time. As a movie? Eh, it was fine. As a Daft Punk music video? Easily their best.

Second best in my opinion. Interstella 5555 is a masterpiece.

My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video.

Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.

I'll unjinx you by replying to you instead:

I'm aware of and like it, but prefer TRON. De gustibus non est disputandum.

Tron Legacy was, I think, only the second film soundtrack I ever purchased (first one being Lord of the Rings). It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding; something about it just puts me in the "flow" frame of mind right away.

>It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding

In that case you may want to try the Dark Ambient genre in general. Lots of similar vibes.

Yeah the movie’s got warts but if you allow for some plot holes and accept that young Flynn is completely 2D (maybe a meta joke for Tron? Nah just poor writing) the movie rips.

People were calling the film "a two-hour Daft Punk video" at one point. Which would be pretty cool, come to think of it.

I do think they were a pretty good choice to follow on from the original movie's electronic score by Wendy Carlos.

Related, Interstella 5555 is actually Daft Punk's Discovery album as a one-hour animated movie.

Tron 1 for the plot, Tron 2 for daft punk, Tron 3... we don't talk about.

Tron 2 for Daft Punk and Michael Sheen chewing scenery.

Michael Sheen is apparently such a fan of TRON, that he might have been lucky to not negotiated himself down to a $0 pay packet - just in case someone else might have gotten the role :D

I think Tron 1 has the shallowest plot! Guy goes on an adventure to take credit for his game. The idea of MCP vs the users is good (and still topical!), but a lot of the other stuff - nods to religion, romance...they feel like afterthoughts. The point was the graphics. And that's fine! I like the movie.

Legacy, on the other hand, has a ton of depth to it! The father/son stuff. Living under the weight of expectations. The nature of perfection. Being open to the unexpected. Resistance by withdrawal. Flynn in End of Line Club - God entering the room - was probably the coolest moment in the entire franchise. And of course the visuals and soundtrack were good. The plot's a little stilted to start, but once the movie hits Flynn's arcade, it takes off. Finally, I should note that the way it was able to walk the line of being a sequel and a reboot and something new entirely is remarkable; people absolutely do not give it enough credit for that.

I liked Ares as well. People seemed to not like Leto and the fact that they rebooted again (and the fact that Tron is not in a Tron movie), but I thought the visuals were good, the soundtrack really grew on me, and there are some ideas to chew on in there as well. Think of it as a big-budget TNG episode where Data's learning about being human. Having just watched Ex Machina, it's actually an interesting companion film: both involve an embodied AI brought into existence by a megalomaniac tech bro, but Ares and Ava take very different paths based on the nature and actions of Eve and Caleb. Dillinger is a bit mustache-twirly but I think he captures the way that corporate pressures can lead people without a strong moral compass down a bad road.

Anyways, 2 and 3 are really good and I just wanna stick up for them.

I think Trent reznor did a fantastic job with the soundtrack, maybe the only person that could’ve fit in daft punks shoes

And the animated show, Tron: Uprising?

Tron 3 would be fine if not for the main character. Every other character/performance is great IMO, and the Trent Reznor soundtrack. The main performance was just incredibly bad, which sinks the whole movie.

What didn't you like about Greta Lee? I thought she did a fine job.

I actually liked TRON 3 quite a bit more than I suspected I would. I had read many negative reviews about the film before finally breaking down and watching it (I needed a TRON fix). IMHO, it was a lot more fast paced than TRON 2, which made it more enjoyable in that aspect. I even liked Jared Leto's performance. The only real issue I had with the film was the news report referring to TRON as a video game, which it definitely was not ... within the TRON universe, it was a security program.

The internet’s reaction to Tron 3 was a breaking point for me: either the internet is full of karma farming bots or people really are just stupid, small creatures, incapable of thinking for themselves. It’s not a great movie. It’s a kids/family adventure film like the other tron movies. It’s fine. But it was hate post after hate post for it in a way I’ve never seen before and for a movie that didn’t do particularly well, so I know most people didn’t watch it. Utterly bizarre that people would commit themselves so much to tearing something down they didn’t even watch.

I also thought the terminal usage was neat. The movie starts with a sudo command. I also think I saw PyTorch.

There are a lot of movies explain their themes outright. You don't have to try that hard to remember what they're fighting for in the Incredibles for example. But what is the theme of Tron Legacy? I had to get Google to explain that the movie is about perfectionism. That's an interesting theme but I didn't realize that in the theater.

Listening to it now [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILHEnz8fTk&list=PLO6S2qKFLc...

The film looks great too. It was such a missed opportunity.

Agreed, that dark tron world is visually super interesting.

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