AFAIK quite a bunch of it isn't even CGI. Lots of creative lighting tricks and just very well done classic animation.

I feel like even today, the CGI is super impressive for 1982 (?).

I watched it at least 200 times when I was a little kid. Maybe I'm a bit autistic, maybe I'm a nerdgirl (probably both) but it was, and still is, one of my faves.

Unless the 3rd book I have yet to read is about being inside a computer system, Neuromancer is so far from being derivative of Tron, I don't know how it ended up on your list. 🤨

For one, he's the leader of a cult where he cosplays as Jesus and allegedly sexually assaults people

This was my introduction to the franchise.

as though there was a bunch of companion material I was supposed to have worked through before getting to the actual movie.

Those movies are all sequels. There is companion material - the movies they're sequels to

It's true, though. You market the shit out of the movie just to get people to watch Jared "Don't Ask What I've Been Up To On Tinder" Leto dress like an 8-bit gladiator and do some stunts.

Then the movie becomes another advertising vehicle for the game. And the game becomes an advertisement for the Disney Park. And the park is stuffed full of adverts for the next movie.

It's all one giant marketing ouroboros. From the outside, yeah, it looks crazy. But when you're being shit out and eaten over and over again, you're convinced that you're having a great time.

I love how EVERY article references the NIN soundtrack.

Everybody loves John Williams' thrilling film scores, the guy has won more Oscars than anyone, but they never promote a new blockbuster movie by screaming that it has a John Williams score.

Adam Baldwin has been pretty far-right/anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQ/anto-“woke” for a long time. He’s MAGA. He was even a GamerGater back in the day.

oh god i hope it's just whedon

I hate to say it, but I agree. It felt mostly like a Trent Reznor soundtrack with a few proper NIN songs added on. It wasn't bad, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Oh well, at least it got NIN back together for a tour. I thought I'd never be able to see them live again.

Agreed that only 2 tracks are notable (Infiltrator and Target Identified), because the majority of the soundtrack is cinematic ambient pieces. Which, those are just ok (especially compared to Daft Punk whose ambient tracks were exceptional in addition to the action pieces Derezzed and the End Titles)

I just like ambient music, haha. I do kinda wish there were more bumpin industrial pieces but if that was the entire movie soundtrack it would have gotten old quickly and made the entire movie seem like an overly long music video, I think. Also my mom wouldn't have liked it as much I bet, lol

I liked it but I totally get why a lot of people were disappointed. Actually my sister agrees with you ("there wasn't enough NIN!" she said iirc)

I do think the daft punk 2010 movie was nailed hard. This was more mellow and not memorable, though that is normal for most movies. I think the "pop single" track release promoted by the movie is a decent song, but its also a cheezy marketing stunt for it, and not "real sountrack" or well integrated into the movie.

OTOH, I liked the mixed reality motorcycle game reboot.

He's an elderly geezer now, not an energetic creative youth.

First of all, check out !nin@lemmy.world

Second, I like this mix that re-frames the soundtrack as an EP:

1. Init/Shadow Over Me
2. I Know You Can Feel It
3. Target Identified/Infiltrator/As Alive As You Need Me to Be
4. Who Wants to Live Forever?
5. New Directive

So you got the 4 lyrics songs, introduced by the instrumentals that echo them, and with a 5th instrumental song as the end credits. It's basically an EP, so you can compare it to the events/violence/witch EPs.

It's a slight step down. With the previous EPs, I get the feeling Trent and Atticus had new ideas they wanted to explore. For this EP, it sounds like they were hired for a job. (hey nothing wrong with that, but the motivation's different.)

"Init/Shadow Over Me" is ok, kinda standard. "I Know You Can Feel It" is probably the best of the four, though still just re-hashing older ideas. "Target Identified/Infiltrator/As Alive As You Need Me to Be" is a great song but I associate it too much with that trailer involving the guy from Morbius. "Who Wants to Live Forever?" really should be the best song, BUT by all the gods that woman's voice is so weak! Is that some kinda post-ironic thing they're going for that I just don't get? "New Directive" is just another instrumental, the person who remixed this coulda left it off. Tho I do gotta say I like how the instrumentals reference both Daft Punk 's and Wendy Carlos' soundtracks.

I'm 99% sure you mean Daft Punk, unless there's some obscure non-film Tron soundtrack that the internet is nearly completely unaware of.

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I mean, the writing is still "wE gOtTa Go InSidE tHe CoMpuTeR!" because it's TRON, lol. But this one's plot was surprisingly straightforward and devoid of contradictions and inconsistencies.

The original and moreso Legacy has some absolutely convoluted plot bullshit (especially with the ISO programs) going on that didn't ruin it or anything (at least for me because I'm mainly here for cool CG and Jeff Bridges) but a more self-aware writing team could have kept it tighter.

The worst writing of the series was in that short-lived show where they un-self-awarely had Elijah Wood be corrupted by the One Ring. Er, One Frisbee. 🤦‍♀️

Thanks! I was half asleep when I wrote it!

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