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Being a huge fan of the 2010 sequel, I finally watched the original a couple of years ago. If you’re not affected by nostalgia or if you weren’t there when it c
by Brendinooo 4y ago
Being a huge fan of the 2010 sequel, I finally watched the original a couple of years ago. If you’re not affected by nostalgia or if you weren’t there when it changed the game, it’s not the greatest movie.
It’s pretty weird though…the good kind of weird, I think. And it was interesting to see how it immortalized a very early 80s sense of computing: everything is a “program” that does a single, limited thing.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI think most "kids films" trip when they fall back to having to have a villain (hisssss!) to drive the plot. Faceless Corporation would have been slightly less tropey but perhaps a little too, ahem, meta for the kids to understand?
- gfxgirl 4y agoBeing a huge fan of the origianl I hated the sequel. Everything that made the original unique is tossed asside for bland and boring in the sequel. As a simple example, light cycles that turn 90 degrees are interesting because they don't exist in the real world. light cycles that turn the same as motorcycles are less interesting beacuse we already have motorcycles in the real world. There's lots of that in the sequel where some artist didn't get that the limitations of the original add to its appeal.
- Brendinooo 4y agoInteresting stuff, thanks for sharing. But I thought The Grid was anything but bland and boring. It was beautiful and unique! The End of Line entrance and subsequent fight is iconic; I love when “God” enters the fray. And speaking of limitations adding to appeal, the uncanny valley de-aging of Jeff Bridges works (opening scene aside) because CLU himself is not quite right. I could go on. The director went on to do Oblivion and the new Top Gun; both were really well-crafted.