I posted above how shortsighted an anti-science message that conveys, and I’ll repeat it. Imagine if every scientist or engineer was told this movie’s message of “ignore your silly pursuit of advancing human knowledge and capability, and concentrate on the fact that you have a child instead”? We’d still be sitting…

Those answers are strongly hinted at in the film. Flynn himself says directly “he’s figured it out”, which is pretty much a plot point that it is in fact possible, but there are other subtle factors as well. Much of it can be gleaned from the differences between the worlds in the first TRON and the second.

In the…

“Well, really Tron: Legacy was about fatherhood - about Flynn obsessively seeking to change the world, and failing to grasp that he had a son - that his son was his real way of changing the world.”

I’m torn on this. I want more TRON so badly, but I also want it to be handled correctly and I have no faith that anyone at Disney understands the property or how to handle it. And as much as I want to love Legacy, to me it went the wrong direction in a lot of ways even beyond the obvious flaws in the script. They…

They could reboot TRON another 12 times and it would still be more original than 99% of all other movies.

Because like a modern video game, some parts of the holonovel experience are interactive and other parts you just watch. There were a lot of cutscenes of stuff where Riker’s character wasn’t actually present for, when he was watching invisibly. And having said that, it’s probably not as creepy as it sounds.

Knowing…

Dear gods, that’s so horrid. Not only does the playable version in the Trek MMO look vastly better, the original rubber suit from the 60s actually looks better. That thing is just embarrassing.

“Hudson, sir. He’s Hicks.”

One of the most brilliant Hicks moments is how they use him and Hudson as counterpoints. Hudson freaks at everything, Hicks freaks at nothing --until he does. Nothing flaps him, long past the point any sane person would barely be holding it together and even iron woman Ripley is on edge, long past the point the…

“So this might be closer to showing a human’s butthole”

“...and the world did not end.”

Speak for yourself! I post from the post-apocalyptic hellscape of a world laid to waste by a horrific global war sparked by an animated animal anus. The survivors of that war call it “The Great Cat-Ass-trophy”.

I think the internet as we know it didn’t exist yet and wouldn’t for another decade, and USENET was only available at one university at the time and was pretty much brand new.

“Let’s scratch TPM entirely and start with Anakin already as a Padawan (You can even keep the virgin birth, but drop the midichlorians; Palatine manipulated the force is enough).”

FISH! AND SEA GREENS! AND PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!

That TA is just plain beautiful, full stop. No bizarre ambiguity about it, that is a flat out gorgeous piece of machinery.

If he’s the farther, who’s the nearer?

It’s not rice, it’s pure disco-era cheese.

My gods... I can see the original 300z in the doors, t-top roof and windshield... that poor thing must be in hell thinking that one day long ago it was a respectable sports car. If I were a multi-millionaire with money to burn, I think I’d buy the miserable bastard and have it crushed just to put it out of it’s…

I always hated that front end, it’s just awful. Everything else about the car I loved but that nose was just hideous even by outlandish disco-era standards.

This thing is so amazingly 70s... for those of us of a certain age stuff like this looks both beautiful and hideous as childhood nostalgia wars with common sense. It’s a bizzarre love-hate thing.