You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
I've watched it just fine at home, twice.
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“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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.
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.