tron legacy

this movie's going to be the new phantom menace. a movie that will divide fans of tron, purists, and total noobs to the franchise. like phantom it's got parts that are genius stuff and others that make you want to kill the director, mixed bag for sure... but one wonders how it'll be perceived not by grown ass men and women who grew up on tron, but by its target audience, little stupid kids. They will eat it up, claim it to be a masterpiece, and... I'm ok with that.

I notice the completely unnecessary addition of edward dillinger jr. the cliche dialogue, Tron being just some dude in the background prettymuch, the in my opinion miscasting of sam flynn, and lack of interesting side characters but let me tell you something... i loved shit like this as a kid. I honestly can't sit through the original star wars anymore, not that I don't recognize its genius, but it really was all about the first completely naive stupid kid journey, not old fart watching a kids movie that we have too much of now.

It's a debate in itself really, is it ok to overlook a movie's flaws if the movie's able to be enjoyed by children?

I used to watch anything on tv that would be somewhat enjoyable, even shitty sequels to classic movies, just because I loved the characters and wanted to see them do stuff for longer, i'm talkin superman 3, 4, which back then i had no real hangups over, just loved me some supey, then rocky sequels, loved rocky so i didn't care how stupid things got, and on and on and on, movies like these anyway get a break from me. But what about movies that really have no excuses for being bad, had all the time in the world to be given a fine polish, wtf star wars prequels etc. Is it ok for them to come up short and still get a free pass cuz some dumbass kid thought it was the shit.

I think the only way to figure this out is to remember what you didn't like to see in movies and shit as a kid, what didn't keep you interested or entertained... I know i didn't like power rangers turbo, no where near the craftsmanship of the first movie, obviously lower budget and no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't fit it in logically with the first movie. same with the casper sequels, obviously shittier and shittier, home alone 3 rings a bell, saw that one and just said wtf was this shit, though I could sense that some kind of effort was made to make a good film, it was just no where near the brilliance of the original. so there is a standard kids have. and i believe legacy exceeds it mainly due to the clever writing in places and the coolness factor, it's not a bad movie, nor one that will really change the world of cinema.

like i said, phantom menace all over again. people compare it to superman returns but that movie really i think didn't want to be connected to the old movies, it just ended up not knowing what it wanted to be, and it's not like any of the actors came back for it or anything...

The most appropriate comparison is Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, though i feel Legacy is better than that piece of shit by a mile.