I LOVE MS's regular work and was looking forward to him in 'Tron', but I don't know what happened, he's just appalling. I'm going to blame the director but it's just excruciating to watch him, he's just beyond awful. What do you guys think?
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shareIt's a contrast to the other performances, to be sure... but I don't see what's so bad about it. He's cartoonish and outrageous, kind of a Bowie lite... YR
shareActually I disagree, I thought he was great, I agree with the poster who said something about Bowie, I got that vibe too. He was just over the top but very funny. I had no idea who he was and came to the boards here to find out. Oh well, JMO...
shareNope, I think you'll be in the minority on this one. He was awesome in TL.
shareI totally agree OP, but I think it was also influenced by the director. An actor doesn't just walk onto a bleak, humourless $200 million studio production and produce a performance like that: everything is calculated and approved. I'm guessing the director realized how dark and depressing the film was (and strangely devoid of any intentional humour) so he had to rely on Sheen's performance to add some life.
Only problem was that, tonally, the performance doesn't fit the film at all and comes across as parody.
I would say the writing was also worse than his performance. I'll just pretend that Sheen realized what a crap movie he was making and decided to add a layer of camp that was needed to catapult the film into epically awful territory.
The part at the club with Castor was one of my favorite parts of Tron Legacy! I had worried about how well I would like the character after seeing a glimpse of him in the preview, but I really enjoyed him and thought he was a breath of fresh air in the role!
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
I thought he was hilarious and broke out of the typical Tony Blair-look.
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