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Well, I might have to revisit it now too.
I think the story gets a little too harsh of criticism at times as well, but Sam's performance does not always sell me as well as Bridges and Wilde's does, so that might be part of it.
Tron's return and Flynn's sacrifice are definitely among my favorite moments in the film. Good times 
I was a kickstarter on these actually and I have to disagree that they lack substance. You'll notice that the further back in time we go, the more human and civilised the underwater people were. The repetition of the ritual that transforms the human that falls into the water is a demonstration of the decline of their power, their civilisation and the widening of the chasm between the races, primarily in terms of technology. As we go through the ages even greater parts of the ritual are lost, to the extent that in the 'end', in our modern day, the underwater people are just scary and savage animals dressed in rags.
I feel like that's a very common thing in short films these days. It's possible to do amazing things with effects, which leads nerds to create sci-fi and fantasy worlds for their film but with no time to explain anything about them.
Not even a lack of time, a lack of understanding about storytelling. You see it all the time with sci-fi shorts, they'll have some cool FX and wrap it around the most cliche, jumbled shit imaginable, and all the sci-fi/movie websites eat it up and talk about how "visionary" it is.
Eh? I know those guys,
Well, that's your fault, isn't it? KNOW MORE TALENTED PEOPLE!!!!!!
Woah, woah. Stop the bike. You've only seen 3 of the 5? If so, that's a big part of problem right there.
Are these shorts great? No. I think some of the parts are a little dull and long, and can also understand how they may be difficult to consume and process since they can be frustatingly elusive. That's ultimately the journey, however, like it is with many films. You can opt to go on this journey and explore what's going on and to see the interaction between two species develop over the millenia, or you can choose to distract yourself with impatience. But I don't think it's fair to refuse to engage and then claim they're just thought experiments.
And really, 'getting it' has very little to do with how smart you are. It's simply observation and paying attention to what you're seeing each time a human falls into the water, even the costumes tell a story. It was far from random things happening. It's comments like this that hint that you didn't really try with it as you claim. Same goes for the "I spent half the time wondering what the fuck was going on" vs. "there was never any big mystery".
At this point, I'm curious what you thought of Trey's Ark miniseries.
Agreed of Forward Unto Dawn, and I enjoyed the BTS features on the disc more than many studio releases.
The level of work that they put in to Forward Unto Dawn was pretty amazing, given the whole thing was a giant promo for Halo 4.
However, I thought the project was well done and makes me wonder what is holding up the Halo movie.
Seriously, go watch it.
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