Why do some people complain this movie is hard to follow?

I watched this movie with an open mind, and it did seem hard to follow. I really liked Tron Legacy, but it took two watchings for me to fully understand. Maybe since you guy's seen it so many times, the story seems easy to follow. But for the first time viewer it definitely is not.

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I saw the movie at the cinema when it came out (I was in high school then) and I've bought the DVD and watched it a couple of times. I like the visual effects and the games with the bikes and the frisbee, but I still have no clue what it's about and I find the story really tedious.

The only thing that i found even remotely confusing was the very end. I mean a that little piece of paper gave him control of the whole company. Dillinger could have just said it was a fake. I admit the first time i watch this i might been a little hard to follow. But more times i watch it. There more you understand whats going on. This is one of those movies you have to watch multiple times "to get".

I just saw "Tron" for the first time (well, I saw for the first time THREE times, because of seeing it with others,) and, not having big expectations, (and not being generally into such movies,) was happily surprised. But the story being hard to follow? Hard to believe. I found it fairly straight forward, sort of a Sci Fi fairy tale, (also kind of reminded me of the "The Wizard Of Oz" at points,) and it also had social and even a touch of religious themes through the lines. I didn't find either too abstract or too shallow. Mostly just fun.


It's interesting some of the posters here are trying to show their credentials for understanding films and subtext, and yet can't figure "Tron." Is it really THAT hard to get, or is it just simpler for others to? Maybe the fact that the point of the whole thing kind of changes as things got going? Where the hacking started as a way to get proof that Dillinger (oh that name! lool!) was a thief, it ended up being about a lot more. In that way, it wasn't A to B. The mission grew because Flynn learned more and saw more from the programs perspective, and how the MCP was just crazy as an outhouse rat!

That's my take anyway.



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The first couple minutes of the film are a little confusing. We are immediately thrown into the computer world and are unsure what is real and what is not real. Then without introduction the audience is thrust into Flynn trying to navigate through the system trying to find his program. At this point in the film, the audience begins to figure out how the real and computer worlds coexist with one another. It doesn't help that when we first see Flynn we have no idea who he is or what he's doing, it takes a few minutes to figure it out because the information is isn't given right away. The plot only starts moving forward once we get to Dillinger's office.

A day without a buzz is a day that never was.

For me, it's rather the visual style that made Tron a little hard to follow the first time.

Although good guys and bad guys are color-coded (blue-good, red-bad), but the body and face are all grey (or black and white). For me, that makes it somewhat hard to differentiate who's who (during the trio escape sequence for example, I can't differentiate between Flynn, Ram, and Tron because of similar color and suit style).

The story is rather simple, though.

I don't know.

It does seem like movies these days are dumbed down several shades for today's audience. I'm just not sure why that is, because the audience really is fairly clever and intelligent than producers give them credit for.