And Legacy doesn't offer much else, with a bland lead and an ugly Teal & Orange color scheme that's already dated only five years later (thank goodness that awful little color-timing trend has finally receded). The Daft Punk score is great, but I can listen to the CD for that.
It's definitely not a great movie, no. But I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than the likes of AGE OF ULTRON, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, and most of the reboots we've seen over the last few years. It was cool looking, the action was impressive, the score was great. Who cares about Hedlund when you had Olivia Wilde plus Michael Sheen vamping it up. And I'm also someone who's never been a big fan of the original TRON. I saw it as a kid -- and guess what, I didn't like it! (I'm always surprised by how often you say "childhood nostalgia" -- as if kids
like everything they see...that wasn't the case with me). LEGACY was a more satisfying fantasy for what it was than the 1982 film, even if -- lie the original -- it's atypical for a Disney movie in terms of its style and story.
I'm not going on a crusade over it -- but I liked it. I like the video game component, I'd like to hear another score like what Daft Punk came up with (now we'll never get that -- thanks TOMORROWLAND!). Why did they have to cancel
this when Disney makes so much crap otherwise...garbage like PRINCE OF PERSIA, SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, on and on. That's whats frustrating.
It's not just Disney, either
Disney is still the standard bearer right now though for regurgitating product. The Marvel line is going to wear itself out but they've got it pegged for the next 5 years running. They'll be giving us more Star Wars than anyone ever wanted before. They're also sequelizing Pixar movies, which they never did before, whether it's CARS, MONSTERS INC, a now endless array of TOY STORY sequels, the next FINDING NEMO, etc. Then they're going to crank out another FROZEN.
TOMORROWLAND is definitely a dud -- it's made less than MAD MAX every day since Monday -- and the one thing with Disney: when they fail with something, it'll trickle down to everything else they have in their pipeline. There will be fewer chances taken, more formulas to fall back on.
It kind of annoys me to see a talented filmmaker get chewed up in the cogs of franchise fever...w
It annoys me as well, but that's the way of the world in 2015. There are fewer and fewer films with any kind of personal stamp on them, and the recycle route is where most of them are going. Instead of Steven Spielberg we've got JJ Abrams -- who's done nothing but recycle other franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, Mission Impossible) or other people's material (Super 8, "found footage Godzilla" in Cloverfield). As a director, what the hell has he really EVER done? Certainly nothing original, nothing we haven't seen before...yet he's held up by some people like he's today's visionary director. It's really sad. He hasn't accomplished anything in terms of putting a unique, original cinematic expression on-screen. Instead he's the Reboot King, not because he's particularly brilliant but because he doesn't soil the source material...at least into INTO DARKNESS came along. The bar, as they say, has been lowered...
That's just the nature of the beast...we'd be getting Tomorrowland Never Dies, John Carter: A Princess Of Mars and The Lone Ranger: Eating More Hearts if any of those films had hit at the box office. And, again, the first two Tron movies just aren't...very...good. 
I never saw the original until shortly before Disney yanked it off of Netflix before the sequel came out, so there's no childhood nostalgia clouding the issue, but take away the CGI that must have been a big wow to the Pac-Man generation, and it's not a very interesting story at all. And Legacy doesn't offer much else, with a bland lead and an ugly Teal & Orange color scheme that's already dated only five years later (thank goodness that awful little color-timing trend has finally receded). The Daft Punk score is great, but I can listen to the CD for that. It's not just Disney, either...everyone is supposedly sick of remakes and sequels, and yet whenever an original film makes enough money, everyone is suddenly clamoring for moremoremore!!!, and it becomes Just Another Franchise. 
). Aside from Indiana Jones and the second Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg has NEVER made a sequel, and I admire him for that...I see a movie for his name on the poster, not because of any "branding"...to see a new story with new character viewed through his distinctive-yet-malleable style. It kind of annoys me to see a talented filmmaker get chewed up in the cogs of franchise fever...when will we ever see Sam Raimi do something small and personal again?