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I'd like Quesada to go back to being an artist. He was good at that.





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Well, apparently not.

I'm still amused that the Doctor is marrying the Doctor's Daughter, who really is the Doctor's Daughter.







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Was thinking about this a bit further, and more than just the adherence and passion to original works for his adaptions, Snyder to me has a lot more artistic flowing stylized elegance to his explosions, violence, and visual effects.

Just because you blew something up doesn't mean it's artistic. Nor is a fight scene necessarily elegant and flowing.

Look at the fight scenes from 300 or Watchmen. They're almost more choreographed dances than fighting. Compare to the chaotic randomness of Transformers. It's sometimes hard there to even tell what's going on. I'm not even going to touch Bay's horrid mechanical designs this time.

I get much more of an artistic sense from Snyder's visuals than I get from Bay's. Neither director tends towards any sort of deep dialogue driven work, but Snyder I think has much better style.



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My take on Snyder vs. Bay:

They both love special effects.

But Snyder has a real passion and love for the source material of the adaptions he's done.

Bay has shown that he doesn't give a damn about the source material as long as he can blow stuff up.



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Besides, do you have any idea how big a jot is?





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If you go into anything expecting bad, it's not surprising if the bad is all you can see.



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So technically, Quorra has Flynn's body, reformatted to her shape.

That has certain levels of potential ickyness.




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CLU's idea of "perfection" is pretty clearly the classic idea of machine perfection, perfectly ordered, static, sterile. It's stated in the movie that he plans on imposing the same "perfection" on the outside world. So yes, he does think of users as just as bad if not worse than the ISOs.

I had thought you were asking "Why did Flynn not want to leave as soon as the portal re-opened". Asking why he didn't leave prior to that, when he couldn't leave, would be kinda silly.

Personally, I think besides trying to keep the "key" to the portal away from CLU, Flynn is more than a little afraid of him. You'll notice he tries markedly to avoid a direct confrontation with CLU, up until the very end.

You also clearly missed the bit where CLU looks at Sam's ID Disc and is disappointed that the code to allow programs through the portal isn't there. This indicates that Flynn's disc is special. It's the key to programs leaving the Grid.

They don't explain re-integration beyond the obvious "it fuses Flynn and CLU into one being". They don't have to. It's not important to the story. All that matters about storywise about it is that A) it can stop CLU, and B) it will probably kill Flynn in the process.

I think part of the problem is that you're trying too hard to impose real-world factors on a movie. Tron Legacy follows a lot of classic cinematic tropes. Chaos vs. Order. The MacGuffin. The Mentor's Sacrifice.




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The ISOs were different because they weren't programmed. They came into existence spontaneously.

Which is why CLU hated them - they represented a chaotic random contamination of his perfect world.

It's also why K.Flynn was so fascinated by them.

Also:

"Why did Flynn want to stay in the Grid?"

It was to keep the keys to the portal away from CLU.

"Why was the only way to destroy CLU to kill himself?"

They never said it was the only way, just that it was possible to re-integrate CLU back to Flynn, but the process would likely kill them both.

They weren't going to use that option originally, planning to exit the Grid and shut down CLU from the outside. Flynn did it in the end to keep CLU from entering the portal, because he'd run out of options.

"Why did CLU care if Flynn stole his Disk back?"

Admittedly this one isn't so clear, but from an in-universe standpoint, they'd already established the Disk as the sole key to the portal. The MacGuffin.

As such a mere copy of the disc being usable to open the portal would be "cheating" in a cinematic sense. You don't establish a premise and then proceed to ignore it. That'd be bad storytelling.



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Apparently this came out in 2009/early 2010 and I hadn't heard anything about it:

http://www.hulu.com/ark

Renee O'Connor plays a mother who takes a nap on her couch in 2008 and wakes up on a spaceship. The other person she initially encounters is a guy who claims he is from 1945.

Anyone else heard anything about it? It seems creepy and well done so far, especially since they supposedly only had a few thousand dollars to do it with.



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Instead of frothing about it on in internet forum, why not just go and see the damn movie, Dur?

We're just saying it's a foolish idea to form an opinion based off someone else's opinion. Instead of doing the research yourself.



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What I'm not clear on, Dur, is why you're so all-fired insistent on presenting and defending an opinion based on secondary sources, that even you say might change when you actually see the movie.

Especially since pretty much everyone here is telling you the base source material you are forming your opinion from is wrong.

It's pointless. You'd have been better served by just stating, "I've heard some bad stuff about the movie, but I'll form a final opinion after seeing it." and leaving it at that.

Which is what you're planning on doing anyhow.

Or are you arguing just to have an argument?

Just stop until you've seen the movie. Your source information is just wrong.


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Sadly, while there is an MacOS version of OpenOffice, there is no iPhone or iPad version.

The OO folks apparantly don't like the restrictive development environment of the iPhone OS and so far have indicated they are not interested in developing a version of OO for it.

There is the Apple-branded iWork package, but that costs money, and as I stated, the iPad isn't especially great as a computer.

There are a couple of VPN programs available, that let you use an iPad as a terminal to remotely access a PC. You could run the word processor and other stuff on the PC then. Dunno if you'd want to go this route, though.



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The iPad isn't really a full computer. It's more or less a really large iPhone.

There are a lot of apps for it, but compared to an actual computer, even a netbook, the iPad is kinda lacking in power and flexibility.



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