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Tron Legacy was incredible visually and musically, I'm sad the story didn't live up to the rest of the movie. I hope Disney can look pass that and maybe make a sequel.

I hope this guy does go ahead and create a OpenGL UI toolkit. He should start a donation site to fund the project.

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I hated Tron when I saw it, mostly because I had such high hopes and the story was just so piss poor.

But now I've come to an understanding. It's a gorgeous, technically and artfully masterful screensaver. You just have to ignore all the idiots who keep talking over it.

I find myself occasionally searching for the videos on YouTube so I can hear the soundtrack (I somehow haven't thought to buy it yet), particularly End of Line. I'm always annoyed when I end up with one of the trailer versions with all the talking, in addition to the music.

I bought the soundtrack, and enjoy it. Many tracks are prefect for working to, if you like listening to backgroundy type music while coding or whatever.

Same here. For the first time, I used the feature in iTunes that allows you to set the in/out points, so I could skip over Jeff Bridges VO on 'The Grid'. With that tweak in place, it's my new favorite working soundtrack. I suspect the alteration between symphonic pieces and ones with an articulated rhythm is a bit part of what makes it so good. Also, the amazingly great production.

Definitely just buy the soundtrack, it's completely worth it. And the one track with a bit of Jeff Bridges dialog isn't distracting like the trailer dialog is.

I think it's strange how upset people were about the story, given the story of the first movie.

Yes the music was awesome. No surprise, it was Daft Punk. I think they're in the film too. You see them as djs having minor interaction with the characters towards the end.

There have been claims that Tron: Legacy was produced not as a movie, but as a 2-hour music video for Daft Punk. And I don't really mind that :)

But they already had an hour long music video with Interstella 5555 ...

It looks like you'll be getting your sequel. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhkp04_tron-the-next-day-fl...

That's a fan thing, right? It doesn't look like a real trailer.

A little bit of backstory here: http://www.slashfilm.com/tron-next-day-flynn-lives-revealed/

  Last year, before Tron Legacy was released, Disney shot some footage 
  that didn’t appear in the film, but will show up on the DVD release 
  that hits in April. Some of that footage became Tron: The Next Day 
  (Flynn Lives Revealed)...

"I hope this guy does go ahead and create a OpenGL UI toolkit"

Rather ironic, given that Bill Spitzak at Digital Domain (who did the VFX for Tron) created FLTK for Nuke which has now replaced it with Qt...

I expected a great mood, music and visuals. As far as that went, I really enjoyed it. It was definitely a movie to see in the theater, in 3D.

Thinking about other movies, I guess I can compare the music, the special effects and the mood to Blade Runner. However the story quality and acting is like night and day. As much as I enjoyed TL, I doubt it will gain much of a cult following.

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