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From a failed and a flailing writer, and a storyteller narrating his influences, to an uncompromising and a compromised writer, not to mention a washed-out literary lion and a playwright under state surveillance…
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 ...
TRON: Legacy follows Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund, Mudbound) a rebellious 27-year-old who is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father, Kevin Flynn (Bridges), a man once known as the world’s leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn’s Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde, In Time), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber...