Tron

[jethrien]

...is every bit as bad as you think.

Well, it's pretty, and I had fun. But I'm not quite sure the 3D is worth the money. And good god, does the script suck. Seriously, the movie ended and there was a smattering of people clapping confusedly one or two claps, and then everyone started turning to their neighbors and saying "What? What just happened?"

All I can really say is, if your entire memory and personality and possibly the code making up your body is on a disk on your back, maybe you shouldn't throw it at people as a weapon, hmm?

Also, as Chuckro pointed out, if you're going to end an awesome 80s rehash by driving a motorcycle into a sunrise, you really should have "Tears For Fears" playing in the background.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Also, don't you just love how they completely ignored the whole evil corporation plotline? I mean, at the end Sam says he's taking over the company, but if there's one thing I've learned from studying Roman history...he's going to lose that fight.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Depends how smart the evil corporate types have been in the meantime. Given that the surrogate-father-still-uses-a-pager dude seems to be on top of things, they may have (stupidly) let him keep majority ownership and neither diluted his position nor invented a share class that killed his voting rights. Which would mean that, technically, he could call a special shareholder meeting, move to elected a new board, vote his majority for all new people, and call it a day. (There are actually some corporations like this today--your vote as a shareholder means effectively nothing, because somebody owns 51% of the voting shares, so the company moves as they wish.) I think the sensible thing would be to do a leveraged buy-out, where he takes on debt to buy all of the outstanding shares and take the company private, where he can do whatever he wants with it.

I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if he did manage to take back the company. He's a scrappy, persistent nutjob. He'll just keep fighting until the current shareholders sell out and the execs leave for greener pastures. Whether his father's "miracle discovery" is enough to save the company after that is another matter entirely.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I really wonder if there's a scene or two on the cutting room floor. They spent a little too much time developing the characters of the CEO and the asshole programmer to never show them again. I was certain that asshole programmer was going to be a major roadblock at some point.