Ok... here we go, now that I had the time here is my response to darkestfright:
Let's start at the beginning. The whole premise that Sam breaks into this company to steal the operating system is fundamentally flawed to begin with. First of all he's the majority share holder and can just walk in and take over the company whenever he wants, but he doesn't...why? Because he's a rebel! Duhhhhhh
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If your father was the greatest computer scientist of all time and you aspired to be him… and he told you wondrous stories of this digital world he created… and one day he just disappeared, I believe you would pretty much lose it. I think they developed Sam’s character appropriately. Sure he could have walked in and taken over the company, but he was lost without his father. He was a millionaire living in a shed who dropped out of his father’s Alma Mater, so you can see he tried to follow in his father’s footsteps but is just too messed up. Before he base jumps off the Encom tower he says “Hey dad how’s it going” and looks up at the night sky.
And the entire scene where the OS is on the internet, and everyone starts freaking out and the their corporate world starts ending instantly makes no sense at all...How do the reporters know that this happened? How is it being reported minutes after it happens? The stocks plummit INSTANTLY? This crap is stupid, and they act like an Operating System has never been pirated before...do the people who wrote this movie actually know ANYTHING about computers? I doubt it... |
The reporters were waiting for a press release and stated “It appears Encom is having technical difficulties” because their systems were locked and they couldn’t broadcast, it had nothing to do with the OS release. What stocks plummeting? The yellow bar you saw was the number of downloads that had now occurred against the now public OS, not a stock chart. Also, he didn’t upload the OS, he uploaded the entire source code.
How the hell does he get out of jail so fast? He's commited so many crimes in just the first few minutes of this movie it boggles my mind, it makes no sense. |
What crimes? Can you steal from yourself? He owned the OS and the entire building. Even running from the police wasn’t a crime. You can’t resist arrest for a crime against yourself.
Then there's that seen where the Bruce Boxleitner character tells Sam about the page and that Sam should go to the arcade...ummmm...why? Shouldn't the other guy go instead because HE'S THE ONE WHO GOT THE PAGE...Of course not, because the plot demands it. |
What? Because Alan knew where this was going. Sam’s father suddenly makes contact… the first person that should know is Sam.
How the hell did Sam ACCIDENTALY input the command to zap himself into the grid? That's like putting a Linux prompt in front my grandma and having her accidentally type in
sudo rm -rf /
. And no, he didn't just look up the command history, he was typing random crap and he ACCIDENTALLY activated some obscure command. I call BULLSHIT |
The guy went to Caltech, do you really think he couldn’t find his way around the system??
THEN, when Sam finally arrives in the grid....how the eff is he such an uber badass right away? How does he even know that he's in the grid? How could he have possibly won that disk fight, how does he know everything? There's no period of adjustment to being in the gird, he's just a super badass right away. IT'S STUPID |
… He knows he’s in the grid because his father promised to take him there and constantly told him stories… he’s telling him one the moment the movie starts! Also… the place is a giant grid… He won the disk battles by luck alone, not skill. He had no idea what he was doing.
Don't even get me started with Clu...the uncanney valley is so deep with that cd model it's laughable. And it's not like they were trying to make it appear terrible THEY USED THE SAME CG MODEL IN THE REAL-WORLD FLASHBACK. Not only that, it seems the model looks WORSE as the movie goes forward...it boggles my mind how the producers were like "That looks great, ship it". |
I will admit… at times the CG of young Flynn was a bit odd and needed a lot of work. Of course they used the same CG model, only a few years had passed since Flynn made clu in his image.
Not to mention his plan was pants-on-head-retarded to begin with. There's no way that he could have known that Sam would come through the portal...or that Flynn even had a son. Even if he did know, how would however came through the portal know where to find Flynn? Ok sure, send a message out into the real world to get somebody to come in fine....there's no guarantee that they would be able to find Flynn. Even then...if the purpose of Sam coming through the portal was to get him to find Flynn for him THEN WHY DID CLU TRY TO KILL SAM AS SOON AS HE GOT THERE |
No he didn’t know if Sam would come through, it was a guess that he was hoping would work out. Flynn was building the grid with CLU for at least 7 years, do you think he didn’t tell him about his son? He didn’t know where to find Flynn, but CLU hoped it would draw Flynn out with the portal opened. It doesn’t matter who came through the portal. When CLU encounters sam he confirms if it’s just him that came through. You also her Flynn say CLU got more than he bargained for with Sam. This is all about the portal, not necessarily sam. Clu did try to kill sam which again indicates he was of no value.
Another braindead scene is when Clu's cronies track everyone down, and they're like "Let's go get them!"....not even 5 minutes before that they just established that THEY COULDN'T GO THERE BECAUSE THEY WOULD MALFUNCTION but hey continuity and logic don't matter. |
No, it was that their VEHICLES would malfunction off the grid which was clearly stated, and before you could question the one sam was in, quorra transformed the wheels so that she could go off grid right after explaining.
And what's up with the Dinner Scene? Where did the food come from? Did Flynn program that juicy pig? this makes no sense at ALL |
You got me on this one, and it’s the first thing my wife said. Honestly no idea. Maybe he programmed a food replicator. If he can create the grid and the programs in it, surely he can create a pig right? … oh and green beans.
And what's up with all the bad-ass disk throwing, bullet-time, light-cycle hopping crap in the action scenes...it makes no sense. In the original movie, Tron was the only character that could actually fight competently..because he was a SECURITY program. |
You keep forgetting here… this isn’t Tron… this is Tron Legacy. This is not the grid from Tron, it’s a new world built by Flynn and CLU. I thought they did an excellent job with the light cycles.
Not to mention...there were only like 2 references to the original movie in this. Considering much of the hype was based on the fact that it's a long overdue (I say that lightly) sequel, the don't do anything with the Tron heritage. In fact, in a lot of places they totally betray alot of the classic Tron imagery. For example, the Lightcycles in the original film..there was an encroaching danger in the way the walls raise up behind making the danger to crash way more threatening...but in this movie....there's no pan outs, no zoom shots...nothing. Just whizzy drive by's and bullet time...STUPID
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Again, thought they did an excellent job. Obviously graphics have dramatically improved since 1982!!
What's the point of the data disk anyway? They never explain exactly why it's so important to the whole process of getting Clu into the real world...only that it is. Then when they finally get it...the good guys basically just go and take it back. There was only like what...FOUR people guarding it? Clu has an army, and this is the lynchpin to his plan, and he has FOUR PEOPLE GUARD IT....argggghhhhhh my brain hurts this makes no fucking sense. |
It was stated several times that a disk was cloned to the program. All activities were recorded. If your disk was destroyed you were derezzed. Flynns disk contains all of his knowledge and programming right down to the genetic sequencing. Which means clu would have access to the programs that made it possible to turn matter into digital data and vice versa. At the time CLU was mobilizing a massive army toward to portal and thought there were no threats now that he had quorra. Also Tron was on the loose.