This Daft Punk video makes up for Tron: Legacy
December 21, 2010 View CommentsJosh and I went to see Tron: Legacy over the weekend. Despite its 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes at that point, I still thought it might be a fun 3D thrill ride.
Boy was I wrong. The movie opened with a title card that instructed us to keep our 3D glasses on for the whole movie, even though only certain scenes were in 3D. It was if the film apologized to us before even getting started.
And then it was two hours of boring. I don’t want to post spoilers here, even though I’d save you $13 and two hours, but the plot would be pretty difficult to encapsulate anyway. There were plenty of opportunities for smart, clever writing, but it felt like they were made dull and confusing on purpose. To that end, I guess, it was faithful to the original. Oh, snap!
So then there’s this Daft Punk video, made with the same aesthetic as the original Tron. There’s more awesome packed into these three minutes than all of the new movie, and whoever directed it should have directed Legacy. Maybe then we could have seen the evolution from the original 80s look to the rubber-and-leather sexiness of the new computer world. Oh well.