Movie: Tron Legacy

[XanBcoo]

See, watching that video I found myself thinking "Wow, that old video game would make a really cool movie."

And then I'm like "oh, wait..."

[darkshadow]

I've watched it just fine at home, twice.

[Splash!]

From an aesthetic point of view, this movie was a masterpiece. Everything from the camerawork to the animation, to the design of the grid looked spectacular. In this regards, you won't find other movies with better executed and carefully planned visuals. This is probably due to the director's background as a designer/architect. I am guessing that his main objective was to make the movie look and feel good, and I think he succeeded. From a story point of view, I would agree that it had nothing going. So if I had to rate the entire package, I would say it was 'okay'. But I watched the movie mainly for the visuals and the soundtrack, and I was more than pleased. In the genre of special effects movies with cheesy plots (I guess there are plenty of these out there to be categorized as a genre), I would rate it among the best.

[poopdeville]

Everything from the camerawork to the animation, to the design of the grid looked spectacular.

Eh, Clue/Young Jeff Bridges was not so good looking. In fact, I was very much distracted by how fake it looked.

[Splash!]

I guess I used the word 'everything' a bit too liberally. I meant the suits, the vehicles, the fight sequences, and most importantly the various locations on the grid. I was actually not a big fan of the way many of characters looked from the neck up. And yes I would agree about Clu looking fake, but I am willing to let it slide. A CGI human face, no matter how well it is done using current methods, is bound to look a bit out of place when seen side by side to an actual human's. It is one thing to have realistic human CGI faces in a CGI world, but quite another to place it into a movie with actual human faces.