This isn't the most timely post but I saw TRON Legacy about a week and a half ago and I wanted to comment on it.  Let me start off by saying I'm not someone that grew up loving TRON.  It was a bit before my time truthfully, and I'd only really seen bits and pieces of the original until about a week before I saw TRON Legacy.  For that reason just know that I'm looking at it through whatever the opposite of rose-colored glasses are.

The original TRON had some really exciting and cool ideas, and stayed just true enough to the topic at hand to keep geeks like me into it without completely blowing the casual watcher out of the picture.  Even in 2010 it was visually unique, though dated, but overall I enjoyed it and was impressed that a film like that could come out when it did.

Legacy

So then, what did I think of TRON Legacy?  I thought it was excellent.  Well worth the money spent to go and see it, that's for sure.  Although the story does miss some opportunities that I've heard discussed, such as drawing off of changes to the real-world tech industry in the past twenty years and applying that to the new, updated TRON universe, but it was still cohesive and enjoyable.

Where the movie really shines though, true to its older brother, is in the audio and visual department.  TRON Legacy is the reason 3D in the cinema works.  It's truly stunning, and something that words don't really do justice.  The look and feel of Legacy has enough similarities with the original to clearly tie it back in, but it also gets an upgrade to make it relevant in 2010 (and for the next 20 years).

Add to that the excellent soundtrack which was entirely created by the electronic duo Daft Punk (how perfect is that, by the way?) and you're in for a truly excellent ride.  I had listened to the soundtrack before seeing the movie and enjoyed it quite a bit, so sitting in the theater with my 3D glasses on I actually got the chills a couple times when some truly incredible stuff was going down to tunes that I recognized.  The soundtrack itself is something to behold, and although I don't think TRON Legacy is a glorified Daft Punk video as some have put it (and I still haven't decided if that's a bad thing in and of itself?), the movie would be different without it.

Another reason to see it is Olivia Wilde, who is gorgeous in the film.  I've liked her ever since I she played Jenny on The Black Donnellys a ways back, a show that I loved but was unfortunately cancelled after one season, so to see her killing it on screen again is awesome.  Cause seriously?  She's smokin'.

So do yourself and go see TRON in the theater.  Nowadays with the 50" LED HDTV's folks can buy there's less and less reason to actually visit a movie theater, but TRON Legacy is one of them.