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Tron: Legacy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-saw-it-right dept.

In preparation for this weekend's release of Legacy, I re-watched the original Tron. Yes, I own the DVD. I thought I would watch it ironically and sarcastically, but it turns out I just can't. I really like the original. As for the sequel, I'm not going to write a full review, but I'll say that the visuals were pretty amazing. The CG Jeff Bridges was pretty darn close, but just not quite there. And the light cycles were awesome. What are your thoughts?

2 of 412 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Thoughts? by PseudonymousBraveguy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, since when did Slashdot become CmdTaco's blog?

    In the unlikely case you are not joking, I'll answer with a citation from Wikipedia:

    Slashdot was founded in 1997 as a blog, Chips & Dips, by Hope College computer science student Rob Malda, also known as "Commander Taco".

  2. Re:Daft Punk by Mab_Mass · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Daft Punk music suits a movie like Tron so much more than the original's symphonic score, I think.

    In that case, you're not listening to the original score very closely.

    The original score was written by Wendy Carlos, who is one of the very early pioneers in electronic music. For that particular movie, she created a mix of orchestral sounds with synthesized sounds. Later in her career, as the technology improved, she started creating entirely synthesized music that sounded closer and closer to real orchestral music. Ultimately, some of this work led to the creation of synthetic instruments, whose sound was inspired by real instruments, but was impossible (eg, a percussive woodwind sound).

    In my opinion, this is an idea fit for the world of Tron.

    (The Daft Punk soundtrack to the new one was also awesome.)