A bunch of us were chatting about Tron Legacy in the chat yesterday and it gave me a hankering to rewatch it. So I did.

It's been a while since I rewatched it, so it's kind of interesting actually.

First off I actually really rather like this movie. It's stunningly gorgeous, the soundtrack is obviously one of the best music-type-things ever made, and the production design is b-e-a-uuuutiful...  and Olivia is smoooking hot and yet ridiculously cute throughout.

Although the movie is beautiful, when it came out I remember there being a huge out lash from people about the CLU/youngening of Flynn CG, and at the time I didn't think it was that bad, I actually defended it pretty extensively. However now, I do see it, it's not great, it's very "Mass Effect 4", good work, but decidedly video gamey. (However my argument of it not being as big of a deal for CLU because he's meant to be a program still holds a little bit of water for me personally, although there's now that little voice in the back of my head going, but why is he the only program that looks like that? Which is fair enough. It's a tough call.)

One thing that really stuck me this time though that i hadn't noticed before is how... playful... innocent... neither word really captures it, but just adorably cute Quorra is. She has this wonderful innocence to everything she does. She definitely has a huge Kaylee factor (in that if she believes something is real and happening than I damn sure believe it too) throughout which really helps some of the more ridiculous stuff she has to do...and coat over the less than spectacular acting of Sam.

Now on that note though. I don't think that's entirely the actors (Sam's) fault. Nothing else jumps to mind that I have seen him in besides this so I can't compare, but I did really notice this time around how much of the "dialouge" is entirely pointless screaming "NOO" "STOOOOP "GIVE HER BACK" etc etc that really doesn't lend itself to not being campy. I'm not sure if I've just matured since I last saw this, but thoughout the entire movie there were constantly moments where the moment would have worked infinitely better as just a look or a nod instead a full out line, it honestly started to really bug me part-way through.

That being said, I don't think the story is AS WEAK as a lot of people make it out to be, it's definitely not amazing and hits a lot of stock beats, and definitely slips up at the end, but there is a complete story under there (which is more than a lot of movies can say) and I do really enjoy it.

Also "I fight for the users." works like so much gangbusters it's almost scary.