alt Hacker NewsAs an aside the Daft Punk soundtrack that accompanies this film is an absolute masterpiece. I think it's their best work.
It's such a shame the film doesn't live up to it's own soundtrack.
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There are a lot of movies explain their themes outright. You don't have to try that hard to remember what they're fighting for in the Incredibles for example. But what is the theme of Tron Legacy? I had to get Google to explain that the movie is about perfectionism. That's an interesting theme but I didn't realize that in the theater.
Tron Legacy was, I think, only the second film soundtrack I ever purchased (first one being Lord of the Rings). It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding; something about it just puts me in the "flow" frame of mind right away.
I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.
Yeah the movie’s got warts but if you allow for some plot holes and accept that young Flynn is completely 2D (maybe a meta joke for Tron? Nah just poor writing) the movie rips.
People were calling the film "a two-hour Daft Punk video" at one point. Which would be pretty cool, come to think of it.
I do think they were a pretty good choice to follow on from the original movie's electronic score by Wendy Carlos.
Tron 1 for the plot, Tron 2 for daft punk, Tron 3... we don't talk about.
Listening to it now [1]
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILHEnz8fTk&list=PLO6S2qKFLc...
The film looks great too. It was such a missed opportunity.
As someone in music, yeah, that was one of the best movie soundtrack’s of all time (not much like it in movies beforehand).
But kind of disagree about the film, think it was under appreciated. It isn’t a masterpiece, but the acting, the overall story, and the visuals were really good. And yeah, those dark Tron-visuals combined with the pulsing, digital daft-punk music really worked (at least for me), and when I want to get pulled into a different world, will rewatch that film.