I'm a bit older ('75), so I saw the original Tron opening weekend at six or seven, the perfect age for it to become engrained in my consciousness. On rewatch as an adult, I could freely admit that it didn't live up to the nostalgia, but I still love it to this day.

I was once again in the target demographic for Tron Legacy, if at the tail end of the "critical 18-35" rather than the very beginning of it with the first one. It has the Bridges nostalgia-bait, the tits and glitz angle with Olivia 'Thirteen' Wilde and a game-as-he-could-be-with-his-limited-range Hedlund as the "new blood"... but with a less polished star and even worse script, it was doomed to fail in a way the first one never was. There's no chance that Legacy was ever going to become the cult classic the original did.

Now, at the half-century mark in *current year, I am well past the nostalgia I have for the original affecting my desire to ever see another Tron* film, regardless, but the fucking moronic premise of this one really takes the cake.

"People liked The Matrix, right? What if we remade the third film that people didn't really care about, using a franchise that's never performed well?"

...what if, indeed?