Tron Legacy...
Visually Stunning
Epic Soundtrack
Jeff Bridges Voice Over
Can't form any attachment to it...
Maybe I just have too many daddy issues for the Father/Son line to real me in (see After Earth).
The obsession with the game within a game (admission: I love frame stories) just doesn't work anymore. Our games don't look like Atari games any longer, Broseph!
The Arena? The grid is not an coliseum, and part of the Light Cycle's allure is that they're hurtling forth across an infinite plane of math, the lines they produce, like competing lines on a profit/loss chart, are the only thing that matters. Fights in this place would be extremely fast paced Gorilla Warfare, or vast reaching icing out of compromised areas of the grid.
I have the answer!
"I will create the perfect system," says the soulless construct.
"together, we're gonna change the world, man..." says the dreamer.
I have an Enemy/Evil Plot worthy of 127 minute metaphor.
High Frequency Algorithmic Trading! (automated trading, black-box trading, or algo trading)
A use of AI to manipulate our information and economy, both in the real world and in this aesthetically beautiful fantasy backdrop would be golden.
From there the "badguys" would be Neon Jetbike pirates (suck it, "dark" Eldar!) with appropriate chase/action scenes.
Sam, Flynn, & Quorra's action would take the form of a heist movie, and Jeff Bridges could explain things about the world and the system (I'm telling you, his voice is awesome!) overlaid on montages of them gathering information and preparing.
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| Feel Free to add as many "freedom fighters" with poignant one liners as needed |
From there we can maneuver all sorts of moral grey areas personified by computer programs who point out the different ways to take advantage of the system. Flynn and Sam, even if they defeated CLU, would be found guilty of crashing the economy and manipulating the system...tie in some too big to fail/all the good ENCOM International in advancing technology. Bingo!
-Garrett Crissup
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