The curious legacy of Tron: Legacy
Close your eyes during Tron: Legacy and you can still see the movie it should have been. Daft Punk’s soundtrack is, like, an okay Daft Punk album. But most original scores for blockbuster movies are boring and samey, the industrial sound of affordable composers forced to imitate whoever the producers really wanted. There were bad John Williams impressions, then bad Hans Zimmer impressions, and now bad Michael Giacchino impressions. For Tron: Legacy, a couple French robots pretended they were writing symphonies for a lovelorn cyberpunk war disco. Were they closing their eyes, too? Hard ...
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