Wow. You certainly have your right to have opinions, but I gotta say I totally disagree with pretty much everything you just said.
Besides being shiny and pretty, the writing was fantastic I thought. The faceless henchmen were dynamic and the “named” henchmen (well henchman) were well written and interesting to watch.
I loved the religious, psychological and societal ramifications of being ruled by a younger, stagnated (developmentally speaking) version of yourself. Thinking about how I would be right now if all of my life experience over the last, say, decade had been nullified. Fascinating to be sure.
And to say it was “predictable”? I couldn’t disagree more. They took the old story and world that we loved (if you were a fan of the original Tron, of course) and interjected new life into it. I was floored with the originality of inserting the Isos in there and changing the Grid into something more. To think that a man could inadvertently create new life and feel so much responsibility for their survival really shows how Kevin Flynn (and the franchise itself) has really matured.
Also. I loved Michael Sheen as Castor/Zuse! Carving out a life for himself and surviving at all costs (and at all moral gooditude). I hope they get to explore that character more in future Tron projects, i’d like to see more of him.
And Tron being on “heavy medication” was kind of the point, I believe. He wasn’t the same program who fought beside Kevin in the first movie and helped build the Digital City that they were so proud of. He was betrayed by CLU and Flynn couldn’t do anything to stop it and you could tell he regretted that and felt pain over it. Tron was his friend and a link to the outside world, in that he was modeled after Alan.
So anyway, what you said sounds like crazy talk to me. But i’ve ranted enough, the dog wants to go play fetch --if only I had a glowing frisbee 
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I’d say I feel old, but I wasn’t even alive when the first movie came out. I feel… educated.
