Friday, March 4, 2011

"Tron: Legacy", Joseph Kosinski (2010)

In the next five mimutes I will think of a better storyline for TRON´s world that the one in the movie.  Imagine that the son of the Dude needs to connect the old computer to the intranet of his company for some arbitrary reason, so you see the shoot of him putting the telephone cable into the thing.  Then he gets sucked into the machine.  Everything is as we remember from the 1980s, but then CLU finds that now he can extend his reign utilizing more resources thorugh the intranet, so the CGI becomes 21st Century.  Then in the real world the managers put a new series of games online, and the games we see inside the machine would be justified. Dude´s son light-cycle could be controlled by Users, and we can crosscut from a frat-house of college boys playing online to the "reality" of the game in the machine.  CLU attempts to invade the Internet as a whole like a virus, to impose "order" against peer-sharing and whatnot, and we see how something really bad happens in the real world (mmm, an airport going crazy, etc) and after meeting several characters (the Searcher Algoritm, always working for Google) that help the Dude´s Son, CLU is defeated, and as a bonus an OS composed of the best friendly programs is now freely available and the Net thrives.  It took five minutes.  I am a genious.
So, the movie itself is not worth of your precious time, but if you can fast-forward you can watch three sequences with some interest: Disc Wars, the light-cycles, and its airborne version at the end.  The rest is suppossed profundity, and an attempt to generate a serious mitology where there is none.  Well, if the trick worked for "Inception" why would not work here?  The commitee doing this movie should have gone full-Nolan and put half an hour more of exposition and vacuous philosophy, maybe then the fanboys would consider it to be worthy of the herd.
One question: why Dude´s son is bleeding in the movie when he was converted into digital format by the laser? Another one: how can I use the spellchek function in Blogger?  Enjoy my typos..

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