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Independence Day

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Daft Punk music. More Daft Punk music. Then more Daft Punk music. Then the Daft Punk music stops, and you are sad.

Davoo
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[from trailer]
[to the two DJs in the club]
Castor:

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.

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Movie Clips from: Tron Legacy

Tron Legacy (2010)

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Consensus: The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.

Consensus: Tron Legacy boasts dazzling visuals, but its human characters and story get lost amidst its state-of-the-art production design.

Overview
  • Rating:
    PG (USA)
  • Theatrical Release:
    November 30, 2010
  • Budget:
    $170,000,000
  • Box Office:
    $400,062,763
  • Runtime:
    2 hrs 7 min
  • Produced by:
    Jeffrey Silver Sean Bailey Steven Lisberger Jack Abramoff
  • Screenplay by:
    Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz
Director
Joseph Kosinski
Cast
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Source: Tron Legacy on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
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  1. Daft Punk music. More Daft Punk music. Then more Daft Punk music. Then the Daft Punk music stops, and you are sad.

    Davoo
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  2. Jeff Bridges’ character from the original “Tron,” computer whiz Kevin Flynn, has been trapped inside a computer program called the Grid for the past few decades when his now-grown son accidentally enters this computerized world, discovering dad is now a scruffy, robe-wearing fugitive recluse. Meanwhile, the Grid is ruled by Flynn's digital doppleganger, Clu, who is hellbent on destroying his creator. Father and son attempt a getaway to ensure the safety of a sexy computer program who may be their only hope of escaping from the world's deadliest video game.

    michaelbrent
    • +8

  3. First, make sure you are blasted. Set volume to max. Neon lights. Daft Punk. Creepy sex-bots. Video game fighting. Video game driving. The digital Dude abides. WTF, was that David Bowie? Best part: your virtual girlfriend can come home with you. That's also the worst part. Like, is she real? Can he turn her off when he wants?

    PatrickWilliams
    • +4

  4. A delinquent gets sucked into a video game universe and finds his father. Antics ensue.

    metalmiked48
    • +3

  5. Roughly 1 hour of Jeff Bridges basically being god, while still managing to finish almost every sentence with "man". Sadly, despite the title, it only really mentions Tron twice in the entire movie. The rest of it is a bunch of very cool yet also extremely impractical fight scenes and a CGI Jeff Bridges who doesn't look like a serial killer at all (sarcasm).

    Jhospeh
    • +3
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  1. 2.
    Kevin Flynn:

    Your old man's about to knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

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  2. 3.
    [from trailer]
    [after suiting up in the Tron suit for the first time]
    Sam Flynn:

    This can't be good.

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  3. 4.
    [from trailer]
    [Sam has just been brought into the Tron System]
    Sam Flynn:

    This isn't happening!

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  4. 5.
    Clu:

    Out there is a new world! Out there is our victory! Out there is our destiny!

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  5. 6.
    [First lines]
    Kevin Flynn:

    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...

    7 Year Old Sam Flynn:

    You got in!

    Kevin Flynn:

    Heh heh. That's right, man... I got in!

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