the endless list of my favorite movies : Tron: Legacy (2010) directed by Joseph Kosinski.
-The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day…
-You got in.
-That's right, man. I got in.
"You're praying now to your grandmother. She died nine moons ago. She lost an eye. A rock smashed her face as she was crossing the Belt. She was twelve when it happened. At that time, this world had a Fremen name. Dune."
-You really don't know, do you? Everyone can't live forever. Where would we put them? Why do you think there are time zones? Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day? But the truth is… there's more than enough. No one has to die before their time. If you had as much time as I have on that clock, what would you do with it?
-I'd stop watching it. I can tell you one thing. If I had all that time, I sure as hell wouldn't waste it.
Can we talk about how much style the first men in black had, like this was Cinematography. The greens and oranges, the blues and that pleasing hazy filter over everything.
It wasn't just like a blockbuster, and it didn't have that CGI cleaness. There was a purposeful look here, it was an unwinding, fast paced, well written conspiracy detective flick.
Like the state troopers at the start with their little uniforms getting covered in goo, the classic UFO crashing on a farm with a cow. It was acknowleding the genre of kooky alien invasion films and then world-building off of it.
It just had such a Clear premise and was able to pull it off so flawlessly cause it knew exactly what it was! And I understand why it was so popular cause it makes you want to be a part of that world, the suits, the glasses, the eye-candy weapons. It all just looks so tactile and fun,., But SO GROUNDED, it's a completely approachable film
Like not to get High Art Film Snobby😭 but can you see it, can you see the difference. It's the same place, same concept but there is such a specific signature here that has just been Stripped away