{"id":209,"date":"2011-01-15T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T04:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-09-12T03:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T10:18:15","slug":"tron-legacy-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/01\/15\/tron-legacy-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Tron: Legacy<\/i> impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another movie outing with my (mostly) teenage cousins on New Year&#8217;s Eve.  This time we saw <i>Tron: Legacy<\/i> in IMAX 3D, even though none of my cousins had seen the original <i>Tron<\/i> or were even aware that the new film was a sequel.  My impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was visually awesome.<\/li>\n<li>Daft Punk&#8217;s soundtrack was great.  It was a bit overpowering, but&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; I wonder if the film wouldn&#8217;t have been better as a feature-length music video with no dialogue, letting the audience piece together their own plot (a la Daft Punk&#8217;s <i>Interstella 5555<\/i>).  The actual plot was ridiculous.<\/li>\n<li>I think it would have been better as a reboot instead of as a sequel.  You can&#8217;t build a solid story on top of an awful foundation.  The first <i>Tron<\/i> film is almost 30 years old, so most people probably don&#8217;t remember it very well anyway, especially since its plot is best left forgotten. A reboot also would have provided an opportunity to give the &#8220;Tron&#8221; name to the world instead of to a character. (It&#8217;s a little telling when the film&#8217;s titular character isn&#8217;t even significant to the story. I don&#8217;t remember if <i>Tron: Legacy<\/i> even explained who Tron was.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another movie outing with my (mostly) teenage cousins on New Year&#8217;s Eve. This time we saw Tron: Legacy in IMAX 3D, even though none of my cousins had seen the original Tron or were even aware that the new film was a sequel. My impressions: It was visually awesome. Daft Punk&#8217;s soundtrack was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantsraves","category-reviews","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}