Wednesday 5 January 2011

3D stole my sequel :(

I am a geek and I love films so it's a no brainer that I love Tron, so how excited do you think I was when I heard about the sequel.

I have now seen the sequel and it was nice, but no smash hit.

Pros and Cons

Pro, plus or good point Con, bad point :(
Jeff Bridges as always is fantastic 3D was rubbish and actually a gimmic that took away some of the magic, Tron consists of massive contrast of bright colour and blackness. Sadly when your wearing 3D specs that act like sunglasses this fact is somewhat muted.
CGI is amazing (maybe too good, if that's possible). I like Daft Punk, but the music should be secondary to the action, supporting it and adding that extra depth and not a lead role in it. The music for the first quarter was intrusive and frankly didn't fit what was going on.
Garrett Hedlund was much better than I had anticipated Some parts were so camp I thought I was watching a sequel to Flash Gordon.
Paying tribute to the original especially the line That is a big door To make up for a lack of story we were subjected to a number of travelling periods, moving from one place to another where nothing much happened, presumably showing off some of the superb cgi that has been employed.
Some of the dialogue was a bit trying at times. I have to tread carefully here as the bits in question may have been good actors ad-libing. But using words like my bag and trip in an 80's style down with the kids manner was a bit gag enducing.

With all that said this wasn't a bad film, neither was it a great film, I left the cinema feeling "blah" about the whole thing.

maybe I expected too much but I am fed up of films consisting of pretty people not generally acting very well and letting gimmicks like 3D or CGI take the place of good story telling!
 
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