![]() And yet, it lacks the same heart that Tron did. Tron Legacy does its best to pay respect to the original Tron, while also trying to break free from the original film’s plot, which it does in a sort of half baked way.The same foundation is there, where a Flynn is sucked into a computer, and partners up with a computer program in order to defeat the ruler of the Grid and escape the computer. She then reunites him with his father, and the three of them must work together to escape The Grid, fighting against the forces of Clu, a rogue computer program who has taken control of everything in order to create the perfect world. Once there, he’s condemned to the game grid, much like his father, where he saved from disaster by Quora, a mysterious computer program. After Alan Bradley receives a mysterious page from Kevin’s arcade, Sam goes off to investigate, and much like in the first film, accidentally ends up transporting himself to The Grid, the computer world of the first film. He satisfies himself by causing mischief at ENCOM, and driving around on his motorcycle. After his father goes missing during his childhood, he channels his passions into getting off the grid, dropping out of school, and living on the edge of society. Tron Legacy follows the story of Sam Flynn, son of legendary computer genius Kevin Flynn, our hero from the first film. ![]() Viewing it now however, I’ve found that six year later, maybe I was a bit too hard on Tron Legacy. There was just something that was missing, and that really pissed me off. It lacked so much of what I loved in the original film, the sense of fun and adventure, and exchanged it for a desperate dash away from the world of Tron, something that never really clicked with me. I hated it’s stupid ending, the pacing of the film, the guy who played Flynn’s son, and just about everything about it. As a conflicted, hormonal 15 year old, I lashed out at Tron Legacy. When I originally saw Tron Legacy in its initial release, it drove me crazy. Nearly 30 years later, in 2010, Disney decided to jump on the big budget sci-fi bandwagon hoping to cash in not only only the sci-fi craze going around, but also the nostalgia factor, waves that have continued to have profound effects today in 2016 with the relaunching of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and comic book movies en masse. I chose that film to kickstart the 70mm Classics review series, because of my deep respect and admiration for the passion and innovation put into the production of Tron. I’ve always, since I saw it in the early 2000s, been a huge fan of the original Tron. Tron Legacy is a film that has always troubled me. ![]()
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