Tron meh-age

[daddytodd]

Ok, so I was already in my 20's when Tron was released. I thought it had some cool graphix, but sucked as, you know, a narrative. I haven't thought about it in decades. Those were pretty good decades.

Now the belated sequel is coming, and the entirety of Beardom seems to be squeeing in unison. I couldn't possibly be more "meh" about the prospect of a Tron sequel.

Is it an age thing? What am I missing here? Why is Tron Legacy the bear equivalent of a new Twilight movie?

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[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

I remember Tron being on TV many years ago. I got bored and stopped watching it. The new one was shot here in Vancouver and my otter neighbour worked on it. I met a totally hawt bear who was up here from California working on it so there is some bears behind the scenes going on there. I was hoping he could "borrow" me an outfit for hallowe'en but all that stuff got shipped to L.A. after the shoot.

[querrelle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I think I 'met' that totally hot bear too. heh, not meh.

I loved the original Tron. I was a budding young micro-computer programmer and mathematician and it got my imagination racing in all sorts of ways. I was fascinated by the continually morphing 'bits' and the 'butterfly' ship that travelled along data streams was beautiful. For the most part I was prepared to forgive the simplistic child-friendly narrative and the wholly underwhelming rendering of the MCP in the closing scenes.