TRON: Legacy (2010) -- Just like the other one, only more so

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Following in Father’s Parallel-Universe Footsteps
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: December 16, 2010

When “Tron” opened in 1982, it seemed to offer irrefutable proof that the next cinematic revolution would be digitized and possibly in DayGlo. The movie starred Jeff Bridges as a video game designer sucked into an electronic world (a nice metaphor for an industry that often puts technological trippery above art) that was eye-popping and lid-dropping, with jolts of beauty blazing amid a morass of sluggish storytelling. The main attractions — bleeding-edge computer-generated imagery and an alternative reality aglow with pulsing phosphorescent colors usually found under the sea or black lights — pointed toward a brave new world. But the public largely didn’t buy into that world, and the film sputtered at the box office. More