I saw this movie after watching the Tron Legacy
Wow what a boring piece of crap this was...even if it came out in the 80s.
shareIf you're reasonably young, I can understand it look like that to you, but for those of us that were kids at the time it came out, it was unique and quite fascinating. It came out at a time when, even though my brother told me it had 'computer effects' in it and I said, 'Cool!' - we had no idea what CGI was, really.
When I saw the new film, I liked all the effects etc, but for me it didn't have the 'charm' of the original.
My initial reaction to much much older stuff (considered classic cinema) is similar to yours (for example watching the Jimmy Cagney scenes in The Sopranos); I could never sit through a Cagney movie and see him as a tough guy. He seems to hammy and forced. BUT ... to a lot of people at the time, those movies were right on the money.
The grown-up way to handle all this is to realize that it's a constantly cycling phenomenon: when you're old, kids will diss the stuff that you think is awesome today.
Please do not make negative comments about a film YOU NEVER SAW. It makes you look stupid.
the thing I liked about TRON as opposed to TRON:LEGACY is that in TRON, they kept it in the realm of the "computer" world. Everything was dark and neon lit, and very simple stylistically, but very effective.....in LEGACY, when they go to Flynn's "house" and they're eating dinner at a table and there are books and such, it just TOOK ME RIGHT OUT OF THE MOVIE. I was like, wtf?
another thing is the original TRON had a much more cohesive, simple story structure....Legacy was too confusing for it's own good, imo. It just seemed like they were trying to be all Matrix-y with it. I loved the fx, though.
sooo good!