tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post8128528779919471875..comments2023-10-29T10:41:21.303-04:00Comments on Castro's Favorite Color: Movie Review: Tron: LegacyHowardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14914637175040341245noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-29716387579898740582010-12-22T12:32:34.983-05:002010-12-22T12:32:34.983-05:00I'm curious about the visual masterpiece part....I'm curious about the visual masterpiece part. It could just be that the aesthetics didn't appeal to me, but what did you find was done so well? <br /><br />I thought the action scenes were constructed poorly, which is more direction and editing problems than what I'd call effects. The opening disc stuff was short and not all of it was clear to me. If it bounced off a wall and hit you did it still kill you? I'd think so but they didn't seem to worry about that. Still the first fight did have the collapse the floor thing which worked ok as something of interest in the fight.<br /><br />The cycles didn't fare so well for me. As I said, I liked the addition of the different levels, but I didn't get a clear layout of the track and I didn't have long sequences of anticipation of what was about to happen, so there was little suspense. Again, there was just the one bit of strategy of them teaming up but that didn't sustain it at all for me. <br /><br />It felt like 3D chess in Star Trek to me. We don't know the rules and it's just there to say "see how we're in the future, chess is now 3D" rather than recreating the excitement I had playing 2D light cycles which the first movie did.Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914637175040341245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-84892951628775154022010-12-22T11:44:08.558-05:002010-12-22T11:44:08.558-05:00I enjoyed the movie. As a work of visual art the f...I enjoyed the movie. As a work of visual art the fine artists at Digital Domain created a masterpiece. It’s a damn shame that Visual Effects Supervisor was something like the eighth-billed name on the feature.<br /><br />I don’t want to sound like an apologist, but I don’t think the movie is nearly as simple nor derivative as you make it sound. There was enough going on that it worked on its own.<br /><br />That being said, you have a lot of good points. Flynn Senior definitely plays the Obi Wan/Merlin stereotype (an archetype as old as Hrothgar) and putting him in a kimono was bound to draw on our collective memory of Star Wars more than Zen Buddhism. Did that — or the several transparent references to The Dude — stop me from enjoying the movie?<br /><br />Hell no!<br /><br />That being said, much of this movie reminded me of other things. The flying wings totally resemble The Monarch’s <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/BiteMeTechie/venturebrosbrock.jpg" rel="nofollow">henchmen</a>.Michael Critzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604366182979779836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-91128262486069634832010-12-20T22:10:22.232-05:002010-12-20T22:10:22.232-05:00I enjoyed the movie. As a work of visual art the f...I enjoyed the movie. As a work of visual art the fine artists at Digital Domain created a masterpiece. It’s a damn shame that Visual Effects Supervisor was something like the eighth-billed name on the feature.<br /><br />I don’t want to sound like an apologist, but I don’t think the movie is nearly as simple nor derivative as you make it sound. There was enough going on that it worked on its own.<br /><br />That being said, you have a lot of good points. Flynn Senior definitely plays the Obi Wan/Merlin stereotype (an archetype as old as Hrothgar) and putting him in a kimono was bound to draw on our collective memory of Star Wars more than Zen Buddhism. Did that — or the several transparent references to The Dude — stop me from enjoying the movie?<br /><br />Hell no!<br /><br />Much of this movie reminded me of other things. The flying wings totally resemble The Monarch’s <a href="http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images/venture-brothers.jpg" rel="nofollow">henchmen</a>.Michael Critzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604366182979779836noreply@blogger.com