official website<\/a> – falls flat – too much emphasis on the narrative – when – really the film is a great . . . big, huge. visual blow-out. the trailer is dumb, don’t let it turn you off. they shoulda just let it run free – like it does in the movie.<\/p>\nit’s #1 – for a reason. and it’s not the story. it’s like people who can’t see the art, unless – there is a story. a background. forget story, think alt. alternative . . . reality. visual mind trip. the story is just the pretext. you don’t need it – and thank god, unlike Avatar – they really don’t serve it up . . .
\nits all about the production – and they aced it. twisted and tweaked that flat screen, deep. big time.<\/p>\n
and, talking about – twist.
\nas in, talking bout users.
\nthere’s users, you know people who use ya – and then spit on ya – and then there’s users, like in web users. funny \/ a funny divergence of meaning – for one little word.
\nI got a fortune cookie with my take-out General Tsao’s Chicken – just the other day.
\nit said: “throw mud – lose ground”. ha.
\nso, here’s a question for ya: can you lose ground – on an open-ended infinitely spatial grid. aka the web ?
\nI guess so. maybe. I mean you can fall thru a shattering spatial crystal. and die. actually – really shatter. turns out, things are really brittle on the grid.
\nbut, can you lose ground – calling a spade a spade in this crummy little island and its narrowing little art world. TRON gonna wipe you out. you are so boring.
\nunless your art is really . . touching the earth – down-right-to-honest – good. like what makes ordinary day-to-day human birth – equivalent to – paranormal experience !!
\n in the end, our primitive little celestial globe – aka earth – seems so sweet, just like Justin Samson’s baby photo and all that rad Philly art – (below\/previous post) – esp. after the endless day-glo night of the alternative logic board.
\ntalk about hard edged w-i-r-e-d. no let-up. no sunset.<\/p>\n
and yeah. speaking of which, yes. I caught the rare lunar eclipse on the winter solstice – last nite. like an eerie sleep walker – totally unaware, a light of moonbeam so strong it woke me – from 2 rooms away – beckoned to me like a strange magic witch on a lonely moor – and called to me – follow the path to the kitchen. where I looked up – what up, with this dumb sleep walking and eerie bright night sky – and then I saw the moon grow dark and be eclipsed. and the room turned dull red.
\nlucky I didn’t get beamed up, right then and there. kidnapped by aliens – good grief – Disney what are you thinking ? alien races needing our earth moms . . . to raise their kiddies ?
\nno joke. it’s the animated trailer before Tron comes on. good grief. if that isn’t enough to stop you in your tracks, what is ? maybe Holland Carter in the New York Times, this past Saturday Dec 18, admonishing Huma Bhabha, – sounds Star Wars does it not – not to lose her soul – in the race to fill up on – her new over-size ambitions ? as if we didn’t see that coming.
\n“Much of the work in both shows is dated 2010, which could point to the problem: overproduction in a short time. It wouldn’t hurt if, at this juncture, Ms. Bhabha slowed down a little and – for sure – forgot about trying to fill Blum’s ridiculously large Chelsea space. She’s coming into mid-career, a period when a style can, without vigilance, turn into a set of moves.”
\noops, I feel the ground moving. caught between the web and a hard place.
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\nUP-DATE: FRI DEC 24, 2010 12:34 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n. . . . ok. ok. if you are a cool dude under 21 – and live in a 24\/7 wired man cave – you might find the TRON #2 narrative “corny”, and the fight scenes . . . just so-so !!
\nesp the bit with the slick chicks and the evil DJ Brit dude – duh is nowhere near BATMAN the movie – resonance.
\nbut then again – KICK-ASS (ha) might just be your favorite (groan) release of the year.
\nif you are a serious film buff – esp sci fi – you might also find the narrative lacking.
\nbut, if you look at art, esp gallery art 24\/7 – and, you are a big big comics fan – illustration zombie and computer animation geek – hands down, you’ll agree – the spatial ride – the computer animation, I guess – is the word ? – is superb, far-out, flung-out, beyond comprehension and absolutely flawless. it’s not just special effects – it is space travel at amazing speed. thrilling. and multi-dimensional beyond current vocabulary definition. and it is 99% of the movie anyways, so. from my art world perch, or is that porch ? I still say – hell yeah – TRON 2 – FLIES !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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