TRON Legacy

When I saw Akihiro Sato or Jake Cuenca in that new Master commercial, geez.. Maybe their face should have covered black anyway. hehe Because they fit to become Tron, in TRON Legacy which quite surprising, doesn't show his face, in most of his parts.. By the way, commercial looks great at least for attempting the looks of TRON Legacy.

After the 2:30pm shift last December, I rushed to the IMAX theater at SM North to witness, the remake ah yes sequel to the movie that I loved when I was well, before teen.. I will explain later why I called it remake/sequel. hehe

After I saw the trailers, the posters or storyboards, I mark it at my to do list or important to do last year, I should definitely watch this film..

I was amazed.

The film starts where well, a dude who is the son of the original dude ah sorry, Kevin Flynn, the owner of the software giant went missing already for 20 years, is ruining the stockholders meeting, and yes, he was visited by his friend's dad.

He was informed that his friend's dad, well received a page from the arcade store which his dad owned before. The dude went to the store and found his dad's secret room and yes a portal to the GRIDD. Unfortunately, he was teleported to it and yes, it looks like ours. Except that the people he is seeing there are like humans but they are called programs.

He was brought to a place which has a head master called Clu which looks like his dad. Unfortunately, it was not his dad. It was the bad alter ego which looking for the original Kevin Flynn, something to do with the disc he has. So, Sam, the son has no choice but to battle in the disc wars, killing freeze bee.. He was good but thought of escaping it because of fear getting killed.

He went down and yes, lightcyle fight!!! It was divided to 2 teams and yes when Clu joined the team and try to kill Sam, the chick a.k.a Quorra arrives! Wow.. Damn chick. hehe She saves him and yes, escapes to a lone world which there was a house which the GRID can't find.. It is the house of the Original Dude!! Kevin Flynn, who is like a zen master.. Simple robe and just meditating.

He told the reason why he came back to the GRID and he just stuck there for a long time. Cannot go back because of the forces of Clu.. And the hero TRON also I forgot now with CLU, mind control perhaps.

Like father, but not his son, well, went to find the historian of the GRID to locate the place which has a power to comeback to the original world. Which is under the name of zuse (I thought it was Zeus). Then, yes, Sam did find Zuse only to be trapped by CLU and got the disc from his dad, because well Kevin came to the scene to rescue the son but Quorra got hurt. (Damn!) hehe

Father and Son escape, Zuse was double crossed by CLU, and CLU's plan is to get the disc of the originator and go to the place of the power source to go through the human world and conquer it!

However, the son is quite stubbor, able to get the disc, go to the power source with his pops and there, they were followed by the CLU's gang! Ah yes, Quorra's left arm returned in no time because she is a special being which Kevin discussed, a miracle he saw in the GRIDD. Self healing humans! =)

Well, unfortunately they fought with CLU and yes, TRON was lost and Sam and Quorra got back, Kevin and CLU died after the final explosion.

It ends that Quorra became a human, a hot chick and travels with Sam in a simple autumn morning. Cut!

Yes, the only biggest flaw of the movie is the story line. Damn, they should make it complicated or what but yes, it was simple and surprisingly, I loved the movie! hehe

The story somehow they should have made it challenging or like inception but not that complicated. hehe I mean, they did answer some questions but they should like make it interesting. The story is like the Matrix part 1, the only difference is well the world did not end bad the world we have is a program. hehe

Some flaws maybe pacing especially after the first half which has more dialogue than the first half. Second half well, has more dialogue than action scenes than the first part. Second part though has more stunning visuals but quite short.

And Sam Flynn's actor, they at least get a recognizable actor. They can get Sam Worthington or Robert Pattinson or how about Andrew Garfield, well at that time he is not famous but because of FB movie, he will become famous. Or just James Franco. That dude rocks! hehe But the Sam Flynn actor, geez, it's not even looks like Jeff Bridges. hehe

What else, hmmmm enough of the bad apples! Yehey. hehe

Here are the good apples. First of all, indeed I was pretty annoyed with the Academy or Golden globes, that this film was not nominated. I can't imagine that having the old Dude (Jeff Bridges, is the Dude in big lebowski) talking or doing a scene with a computer generated Jeff Bridges in one scene doesn't matter with them. I mean, the CLU dude doing his scenes alone is great, you can't tell his computer generated. How about his old self talking to you? That's marvelous in the own right! Damn.. The film also looks good in 3D. My 400 bucks is worth watching this than 350 bucks watching the Alice in damn wonderland. Great oh yes, Alice was nominated.

The scenes were astounding especially the title sequences, the footages of Jeff Bridges when his son was still young. The disc fights, the lightcycles, the set up of it, even the ships, wow! hehe And the one I like is the transformations, from the cycles and the one I really like, when the CLU's gang transforms to a jet. Damn awesome. My eyes and me got fascinated!

The actors, of course, without them, well, it's not worth of 400 bucks like Alice.. Of course, from let's say the TRON which did not speak in the movie, but how he looks and action sequences, another candidate for Cyber Ninja in MGS. hehe I think give the Sam Flynn credit dude a credit. Good thing. hehe The program soldiers, even CLU's right hand, funny. How about Martin Sheen as Zuse? He pulled off a Alex Delarge somewhat role but toned down in a Disney level. hehe It's short but great performance. Olivia Wilde? I'll never forget that chick. Quorra, at the time she is in a scene.. Oh christ.. I can't take my eyes off from her.. I don't care what she says.. hehe Her hair, the suit, the looks, damn good. =) If Raims fell in love to her, me too! hehe

The Dude! Well, no need for decription for Jeff Bridges, simply great performance.. Not award worthy but doing the role and transformed it after 20 years, simply great. Especially in his final scenes with CLU. Great dude! hehe

This film I called it remake/sequel, because the story itself, if you watched the first TRON, it was almost the same. Even the events, it's just the same, they only changed it the parts where the disc and light cycle fights and of course, there is no Jet at the first TRON. The sequel part, well, it is already set up especially the first parts of the film and the ending of course.

I forgot, Daft Punk can make movie soundtracks, just fit with the theme of the movie. Plus a cameo! without his face of course. hehe Music score in this movie, rocks, you can use it if you have dance parties! hehe

Another drawback well, it's a Disney drawback, the story I can say can go dark and complicated but unfortunately, since it's Disney, they want to have the kids watch it and GP crowd.. You can't blame Disney perhaps but yeah, kid's brand. Erghhh..

It was a great movie, definitely, one of the best for the last year. It was hard to choose between inception or TRON Legacy, I'll go for inception because it's original even it's very confusing..

However, that's the only advantage I can see versus TRON Legacy..

Cool movie.. Visually stunning and yes, I like this I guess than Avatar. hehe