Not Dead, Thanks Anyway Tron

Despite Tron's best efforts at sucking, I am still alive.

I'm not going to labor myself here, as I've already suffered enough, but this is why I take a dump on Tron Legacy.

First, whether or not it was a result of poor CG or done intentionally, the digital world in Tron appeared to have it's own unique physical properties. Take, for example, the light-cycles and their geometric movement. That sort of stuff distinguished the world in Tron as governed by different rules. Tron Legacy stuff just looked like designer fashion with neon glued to it - not that mind boggling. The movement and weight of the vehicles along with other parts of the setting didn't give me the impression of a foreign world like Tron did. I realize that this is an incredibly nerdy argument to make, but, goddamnit, I just made it. Deal with that.

Second, and less likely to come up during a game of Magic, the story in Tron Legacy was . . . unfortunate. It centered around some paternal angst and was probably lifted from an episode of Maury. The point is that it was centered around human drama, and that's fine for a Ryan Gosling movie, but I was expecting something a little more conceptually innovative. In it's time, Tron was a movie of innovative, mind-blowing ideas and the design centered around that. When I went into Tron Legacy I expected to have my mind-blown visually and intellectually. I was expecting The Matrix but got Kramer vs Kramer with lasers. It's a generic action film with a dash of daddy-drama and a hint of romance that could have been ported to any setting.

Finally, too many movies. There were like 3 or 4 different movies all crammed into this one. I would have rather seen a movie about Flynn vs Clue or the whole isotope war. The story depended on a lot of back-stories that could have been explored independently, but were only given a brief summation. Basically, we got Return of the King and the cliff notes to Fellowship and Towers all rolled into one package that didn't come with a gift receipt.

Tron Legacy was a generic, summer, block-buster action movie that didn't star Will Smith or offer anything besides flashy visuals and a sick score.Although I was pleased to see what Daft Punk's home planet looks like.

The Murph Man! Harry Goz Tribute.

Harry Goz is the voice of Captain Murphy on Sealab 2021, an OOP Adult Swim cartoon, he died during the making of season 3. Harry Goz was not only the voice of Murphy, but he WAS Murphy. When Harry died, so did Murphy. I started this as a tribute ages ago, but I was living out of the country and had to move before it was finished so I basically had to "finish" it enough so I could transport it. I'm going to pretend that the unfinished nature of it was an intentional artist's statement about the unfinished life of Goz/Murph. Yeah, that sounds good, Fig Nuts.