marcicat | saw Tron Legacy again, have more questions

So… starandrea and I went to see Tron Legacy again, this time in IMAX 3D. 3D glasses were subpar, movie was still interesting the second time through. Still do *not get* the purring thing.

Inquiring minds want to know:

1. Re: Dillinger Jr. Why doesn’t he clap at the meeting? Who is he calling when he walks out? Where does he go? Is he the Mike of ~~his team~~ the movie? (A: Yes.)

2. Re: Carl (the police impound lot guy). How well do he and Sam know each other? Best understated ‘this is the only character development you’re going to get, so enjoy it’ moment of the movie.

3. Re: Alan. How much does he know? Does he have a key to Sam’s apartment, or did he just break in? Did he go to the grid to search for Kevin after he disappeared? Who currently owns the arcade?

4. Re: Kevin’s office. The clock/timer screensaver thing. What was it counting? Time since last activation? The leftmost number was 20, which would match the number of years since Kevin’s disappearance — maybe it was a reminder of how much ‘real world’ time had passed for when Kevin came back from working on the grid?

5. Re: the grid, specifically the portal. So, you *appear* in the replica of the arcade, somewhere in the city. But you have to *leave* through the portal, which is out in the middle of nowhere? How does that even work?

6. Re: Kevin Flynn. Crazy like a fox, or just sheer crazypants crazy?

7. Re: Sam. (Who apparently inherited his dad’s propensity for changing his shirt at socially awkward times.) Why did he never do anything cool with the second lightcycle wand he picked up? (I was waiting and *waiting,* and nothing. It was easier to watch the second time.)

8. Re: disks. Identity disks are to programs as… *what* is to humans? Because Tron had one, but then he nabbed a second, and then as Rinzler he had two, and then he lost them both, and then he (sort of?) rebooted as Tron, so… Also, Zuse talked about forged identity disks, and Sam obvs. didn’t have one when he was picked up in the beginning, which seemed to be a punishable offense but not exactly ‘oh horror of horrors a program with no disk how can he function?’ And of course Quorra and Kevin swapped disks, which seemed totally weird.

9. Re: ISOs. They’re going to change the world how? Because they’re programs that self-generated? How does that translate to eliminating disease? I’m confused.

10. Re: Quorra in particular. ‘Hey, it’s obvious that I’m an ISO b/c of this nifty thing on my arm. You know what would be smart? Wearing an outfit that makes it *super easy* to spot!’ Yeah.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.