You basically turned on a PS3 expecting to play Super Mario, Don't get me wrong, I love the Original Tron and Tron 2.0, but times have changed, while I liked the feeling that epic battles were being fought inside a normal computer, truth is the general public doesn't believe that anymore,that is why the grid is some kind of simulated reality now, and that is why the whole look is grid look is different now, however they did keep the most important aspects of the tron Universe, The Recognizers, the Identity discs, The Lightcycles and the Light tanks

But unlike you, I gave the new Tron universe a chance, I read Tron: Betrayal, Played Tron: Evolution and Watched the whole season of Tron : Uprising, and now I see that awesome stories can come out of this new universe.

Actually if you had bothered to see a few episodes of Uprising you would had seen that the grid in the series looks alot more like the encom server than it did in Legacy, and in some episode they even enter in an old part of the grid that looks like the server 511

I can dig it.

Look, I saw T:L first and I like the style and imagery. A lot. Dark and sleek and minimalist does a lot more for me than 80s-style Day-glo psychedelics. But, I agree, the two don't quite jive. But then, neither do many things between the two films that sometimes makes it feel as if the pair are alike in name and somewhat in theme (= people inside computer) only. The two are sometimes very difficult to reconcile; I even admit to almost needing a bit of disconnect between the two and the need for suspension of a bit of belief. I love both anyway. Two completely different eras; not easy to bridge the gap.

As a fan of the original myself compared to Legacy. I understand where your coming from, but none the less Disney pulled it off. This isn't 1982 and I know Disney was looking to stick to todays generation compared to 1982 as times have changed. Would I love to have seen some of the original aspects or scenes in Legacy besides a run down Flynns arcade or updated Flynns lightcycle/recognizer YES. I heard there were supposed to be flashback scenes in Legacy from the original film, but I clearly saw nothing the whole time while I was watching Legacy in theaters. This is Steven Lisbergers world/universe and I honestly felt Disney should have stuck with his original ideas of a sequel and not let some other director at the helm, but that's just my opinion.

I actually read the plot on IMDB. So I didn't miss out on it.

I am, however, thinking of taking the plunge and purchasing the blu-ray. Why? Because of what all Murdock.dat said. That you need to clear the board, as it were, of expectations.

Ianlis Wrote:I am, however, thinking of taking the plunge and purchasing the blu-ray. Why? Because of what all Murdock.dat said. That you need to clear the board, as it were, of expectations.

Its a good philosophy I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about T:L when you've seen it and if your opinion has in fact changed or stayed the same, hope you enjoy it. Also the sound track works really well, my fav has to be when Sam enters the Grid an excellent piece of music.

Ianlis Wrote:I left the theater when Sam was in the disc wars arena. My musical preference is of stuff like Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Rush, the Beatles, etc. Anyways, I got the Blu-Ray and I plan to watch it when I get home from the gym tomorrow. I hope at least they make homages to the original TRON theme in the movie. But yeah, I will keep an open mind, and enjoy the movie!

Wait you actually PAID for the movie ticket and then Walked out 20 minutes into the film?









And yes there are a TON of references to the original film in Legacy

Murdock.dat Wrote:To be fair, Daft Punk's score for the movie isn't really the same thing as far as what they do with their music albums.

Um... yeah. In fact I'd call the score more hybrid than electronic (and some parts are mostly acoustic, period). I mean, compare Around The World or Technologic and Father and Son or Nocturne from the soundtrack... you would not think the same people were involved.

Ianlis Wrote:My musical preference is of stuff like Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Rush, the Beatles, etc.

Yeah, me too. But I like DP as well. (Oh, all right: on any given day you can walk past my desk and hear Paganini, Palestrina, CCR, Dropkick Murphys, DeadMau5, and KMFDM on my Pandora. Sometimes more than one of those on the same day, depending on my mood. It sort of freaks the coworkers out, lol)

Ok, these are interesting posts. I love the original Tron, saw it at the age of 7 in the theaters and it really impacted me. I also think the original Tron score was amazing and still moves me today.

Having said that, I appreciate the updates in T:L. I think the Daft Punk score MADE the film, I think it would be a mistake to go a different direction musically for the next movie. I was disappointed that they did not allow Daft Punk to cover / reinterpret the original Tron score rather than release "Reconfigured" which was various artists attacking the T:L soundtrack. For some reason, and IMO a big mistake by Disney, was to distance T:L from the original Tron when marketing the new film.

The server that Flynn uses in the basement is different than the server used in the original Tron....am I correct? If so, wouldn't it make sense that different servers / computers / devices would have a different look internally? I think it is a cool concept that it is possible for an Apple device to appear differently than a PC...or different servers to have programs w/ unique appearances. I hope they explore this in a future movie or series, would keep things fresh.

1982program Wrote:Having said that, I appreciate the updates in T:L. I think the Daft Punk score MADE the film, I think it would be a mistake to go a different direction musically for the next movie. I was disappointed that they did not allow Daft Punk to cover / reinterpret the original Tron score rather than release "Reconfigured" which was various artists attacking the T:L soundtrack. For some reason, and IMO a big mistake by Disney, was to distance T:L from the original Tron when marketing the new film.

It was true to the electronica genre, though, where remixes are a way of life. Let's face it: in reality it was no more than yet another way to make money (YAWMM? ). But it did make sense. Might've be interesting to work the original score in, in some way, but perhaps they had their reasons for not doing it.

1982program Wrote:The server that Flynn uses in the basement is different than the server used in the original Tron....am I correct? If so, wouldn't it make sense that different servers / computers / devices would have a different look internally? I think it is a cool concept that it is possible for an Apple device to appear differently than a PC...or different servers to have programs w/ unique appearances. I hope they explore this in a future movie or series, would keep things fresh.

I think it absolutely makes sense they'd look different, though I would think any machine of similar OS and era would look similar with just small changes.

But I think a lot of people felt much was lost. T82 depicted a working computer system where the programs had functions and the circuitry patterns looked like, well, circuitry. T:L depicted a world where programs go to clubs and it rains. As I and others have pointed out, there wasn't much there to suggest "computer world" besides the fact that we were told it was, and much of the wonder and novelty of the idea was lost. (And I believe someone had argued above that today's generation wasn't interested in such a storyline. In THE age of technology, not to be interested in imagining that inside your every Android phone/iPad/graphing calculator/netbook is an entire digital world? Heaven forbid folks should have so little imagination.)

They pulled it off because they passed it off as Flynn's little virtual playground; you wouldn't expect it to function the same as an actual working computer like whatever you and I are tapping away on right now. But something was still lost.

Now, the change in circuitry design is arguable; the original T82 design is cute and great, but logically: why does a program have circuitry at all as if it's hardware? So I could understand an argument for the new design from that standpoint: the fact that programs glow at all in unique patterns is nifty to me. But it DOES deviate away from what they established in the original.

Really the biggest thing I have a problem with is the continued deviation away from original disc function. But it looks like that's here to stay and most people accept it, so oh well.

I would love to get back to a storyline where programs have functions and where we imagine what different computer processes might look like from the inside.